What’s Covered?
X-Treme X-Men # 24 - 30
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Synopsis
X-Treme X-Men # 24: Cannonball joins the chat
Writer - Chris Claremont
Pencils - Salvador Larocca
X-Treme X-Men vol. 1 #24  2003  Chris Claremont  Salvador Larroca
Cannonball struggles with the violent aftermath of the Weapon 12 attack
Sam spends months with Lila Cheney
He agrees to join the XTX
Classic slow issue where we take some time with Cannonball before he joins the X-Treme X-Men.
X-Treme X-Men # 25 - 30: God Loves, Man Kills 2
Writer - Chris Claremont
Pencils - Igor Kordey
X-Treme X-Men vol. 1 #25  2003  Chris Claremont  Igor Kordey
Lady Deathstrike frees William Stryker from an exploding prison plane
I thought Stryker died, but maybe I'm thinking of X2. Over recent arcs, Lady Deathstrike has become much more interesting to me.
Kitty Pryde doing school therapy
Kitty in the Hizzouse!
W, Sage, Cannonball, and Sam taken out
Stryker and LD capture Kitty
X-Treme X-Men vol. 1 #26  2003  Chris Claremont  Igor Kordey
Amazing fight scene where storm gets knocked out by a missile in the air, as she’s falling to the ground, sage positions, Sam, while stuck in a net, across from Wolverine's claws, and asks Sam to start propelling into his claws to free himself, so he can then fly off and catch storm last minute
This was pretty cool. Claremont has always been pretty damn good at creating fun fighting scenes and cool uses of their powers.
Pretty cool scene while Kitty is in custody where all of the possible versions of kitty are giving her a hard time about her choices
It turns out that this is all a ruse, as William Stryker is trying to condition her to turn against her fellow X-Men
Sage gets the captured mercenaries to share their secret plans
While LD (Lady Deathstrike) is connected to the internet, she is hacked and her body begins killing people, trying to get to Stryker
I really had no idea what was happening here when I first read this.
Stryker frees Kitty so they can both escape
X-Treme X-Men vol. 1 #27  2003  Chris Claremont  Igor Kordey
Kitty uses her power in a new way. Phases while the earth spins on its axis, sending her flying 300 mph.
I can't decide if this is super brilliant or super dumb. Leaning more towards dumb.
Due to Kitty phasing through the Earth, storm is thrown off, and her powers are out of control, putting the whole team at risk.
Oh Man, I've never seen this happen before.
After Bishop and Wolverine get her to calm down, Storm can no longer walk, but she can fly.
Sage posits that it was the adamantium suit phasing through the Earth that messed with storm
Kitty is brought to Mount Haven (near LA), which seems to be a mutant sanctuary.
Kitty passes out from a headache
X-Treme X-Men vol. 1 #28  2003  Chris Claremont  Igor Kordey
Stryker attacks the minister and Kitty
Mutant kids in the town take over Storm and Sage, attack Bishop
LD defeats W
X-Treme X-Men vol. 1 #29  2003  Chris Claremont  Igor Kordey
Cannonball is the only one left
Saves W
Kitty and Minister Paul are in a control station of some kind
Stryker’s gone into stealth mode
Is Paul a robot?
This was very confusing, but since it was also pretty boring I didn't bother to read it a second time to make my notes make more sense. Sorry!
X-Treme X-Men vol. 1 #30  2003  Chris Claremont  Igor Kordey
It turns out that Nannites were affecting all of the mutants, and all of the mutant children died
Bishop was inoculated as a child
Sure he was.
Logan claims that he let Lady DeathStrike stab him through the heart so that his mutant healing factor would reset his body and flush out the Nannites
Minister Paul is an AI
Stryker sacrifices himself to merge with Paul
Kitty says she’s going to run for office as an Alderman
My Rating- 3/10
Not your best work, Claremont.