What’s Covered?
X-Treme X-Men # 40 - 46, X-Treme X-Men Volume 3 (2022) # 1 - 5
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Synopsis
XTX # 40 - 45: Prisoner of Fire
Writer - Chris Claremont
Pencils - Igor Kordey
X-Treme X-Men vol. 1 #40 2004 Chris Claremont Igor Kordey
Gambit and Rogue making out on a beach
Evangeline Whedon (dragon mutant) takes in the one eyed murdering orphan, Marie
A mutant who turns into a giant dragon? Count me in, I want more.
Sage discovers a broken X mansion while investigation Elias Bogan
A mutant X-Men party on the beach
Sam is bummed about his sister being with Warren
I would be too, Sam
Amara and Vange are there
This was fun!
A bunch of newer villain mutants take down Bishop.
X-Treme X-Men vol. 1 #41 2004 Chris Claremont Igor Kordey
Elias Bogan terrorizing a captured Bishop until he escapes
Bishop actually let himself be captured
Sage initially got her scar marks from Bogan
This is news to me, but I feel like I was told at some other point and just didn't catch it.
X-Treme X-Men vol. 1 #42 2004 Chris Claremont Igor Kordey
Sunspot, Skids, and Amara helping on mission
Hey! It's Skids!
Sam is leading without Storm or Bishop around.
Making Sam great again!
Sam, Roberto, and Skids take down the Cudgel twins and Raining Thunder, but get dismantled by Bishop (who is now brainstormed by Bogan)
Gambit takes down Bishop
Sage gets Kitty to help with the fight
X-Treme X-Men vol. 1 #43 2004 Chris Claremont Igor Kordey
Kitty takes Amara, Sage, and Rogue into the Earth’s crust
Sage thinks Bogan is hundreds of years old. Maybe started the Hellfire Club
Bogan controls everyone, however Gambit and Bishop were punking him
Magma, controlled by Bogan, promises to make Sage burn
X-Treme X-Men vol. 1 #44 3/24/2004 Chris Claremont Igor Kordey
Sage reveals her backstory to Bogan
She was the one who found Xavier after his legs were crushed
She massacred a town and feels guilty about it
The XM crack into Bogan’s essence (egg?) and defeat him (?)
These things are confusing sometimes.
The captured telepath (the one doing his biddings) was Rachel!
Holy shit, I did not expect that!
X-Treme X-Men vol. 1 #45 4/14/2004 Chris Claremont Igor Kordey
Rachel resting
Bogan not dead, psychically attacks Amara, Roberto, Rogue, etc
One by one they conquer their individual nightmares
Magma burns it all
XTX # 46: Final Issue
Writer - Chris Claremont
Pencils - Igor Kordey
The XTX watch the news of what happened in NY
Sage helps Rogue and Gambit (or maybe just Gambit?) get their powers back
Sage is worried that Storm is more extreme (X-Treme!?) since returning from Tokyo
Amara addresses that Allison Crestmere wasn’t real
Clearly, Claremont just thinks that retcon was hogwash.
Kitty and Rachel are walking around holding hands and putting their arms around each other
Just good friends, right?
Rachel now going by Marvel girl
Let's make up some new names.
Dani chooses to stay as a teacher as opposed to an X-Man
*continued in UXM444
XTX V3 # 1 - 5: Ogun
Writer - Chris Claremont
Pencils - Salvador Larocca
Claremont came back in 2022 to write this 5 issue Limited Series, taking place directly after the final issue of the first volume. I typically don't do this, but since it just came out and flows nicely here, I figured I might as well knock it out.
X-Treme X-Men vol. 3 #1 12/7/2022 Chris Claremont Salvador Larroca
Ogun kills people at Kitty's bar (Hell's Belle's)
Kitty beats Ogun in a fight
Kitty lives with Rachel, who summoned the whole XTX team
Purity planning a demonstration
X-Treme X-Men vol. 3 #2 12/28/2022 Chris Claremont Salvador Larroca
W finds Ogun but Ogun played him by skipping away and enciting the crowd
Gambit may run point since Kitty and Ogun don’t know him well
Rachel taking on Ogun in the Astral plane
Bishop and Sage fight a really strong guy (Galerer)
X-Treme X-Men vol. 3 #3 2/15/2023 Chris Claremont Salvador Larroca
The brute works for a lady with white hair (Sanzu)
Says he was supposed to capture Sage so that their mutant energy could be siphoned.
A mini sentinel (Scrap) and Alice (mutant) are up to no good.
Rachel and Kitty fight Ogun in the astral plane
Gambit's mutant sisters are hanging around.
Sanzu tries and fails to steal Rachel’s power
All of the X-Men lose their powers due to Scrap, the mini sentinel
Storm falls from the sky
Kitty in phases into solid rock
If I thought there was any chance of Kitty being hurt, I would be distraught.
X-Treme X-Men vol. 3 #4 3/22/2023 Chris Claremont Salvador Larroca
Ogun takes over Galerer (the big guy)
(A powerless) Rogue fights Ogun while others escape
All de-powered XM fight Ogun
Kitty didn’t die because her natural state is to be intangible
X-Treme X-Men vol. 3 #5 4/19/2023 Chris Claremont Salvador Larroca
Sage gives a speech about “otherness” to the crowd
Kitty goes intangible to attack scrap and everyone gets their powers back
Rachel erases Ogun from existence
My Connections and Creators
I have a lot to say, but I'm about to capture all of my final thoughts on the X-Treme X-Men in an upcoming X-Treme X-Men retrospective blog.