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29 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
X-Tinction Agenda: A Must Read!!!, April 26, 2002
One of the best X-Men storylines ever! It centers around the 3 x-teams (X-Men, X-Factor, and the New Mutants) being captured by the state of Genosha, a neo-nazi place. Cameron Hodge, a cyborg enemy wants to execute them for high treason against Genosha, but secretly hopes to wipe out ALL mutants off this planet. Lots of events happen, such as internal bickering between the teams, a kiss between Jean Grey and Wolverine, Cyclops v.s. Havok (his brainashed brother) and tons of action. Also, it was really emotional as Warlock is killed by Hodge, and Wolfsbane and Storm are transformed into mindless Genoshan slaves, called Mutates. This is one awesome storyline, and you just HAVE to read it!!!It contains 9 issues:
Uncanny X-Men #270- Storm, Boom Boom, Rictor, Wolfsbane, and Warlock are captured. New Mutants #95- Powerless, the captured mutants escape, while Warlock dies and Wolfsbane is captured again. X-Factor #60- The rest of the x-teams go to Genosha, where Cyclops fights his brother Havok. Uncanny X-Men #271- Wolverine, Psylocke, and Jubilee arrive at the scene and help save Boom and Rictor. Wolverine and Psylocke attack the citadel, only to be captured, while Storm is turned into a mutate. New Mutants #96- Half of the remaining X-Men attack, but are rendered powerless and get captured. Meanwhile, Wolfsbane gets transformed into a mutate. X-Factor #61- The remaining X-Men (except for Boom Boom, Ric, and Jubilee) attack, but end up powerless and captured. Uncanny X-Men #272- The captured X-Men are put on trial and found guilty. Hodge then begins to torment them, but realizes there are traitors among Genosha. Storm is releases of the mutate bond, and restores Cyclops' power, who then attacks Hodge. New Mutants #97- The free kids continue to delve deeper into Hodges' laboratory, and meet up with some of the X-teams (who got their powers back), but are attacked by Hodge. X-Factor #63- The conclusion, where all the mutants attack Hodge, and finally, he dies.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A powerful climax to the 80's run of the X-Men and co.; sets the stage for the 90's and beyond, November 22, 2005
Magneto, Apocalypse, Sinister, the Hellfire Club, the Sentinels... the major arcana of X-Men foes, and yet there is one evil that ranks above even this rogues gallery of dark demigods: human fear and hatred of mutant kind. The Genoshan government is human bigotry toward mutants incarnate; all which Magneto had warned the rest of Homo sapiens superior against made real and localized to a tiny island that built a utopia on the backs of a slave class of mutants.
In the X-Tinction Agenda an entire nation declares war upon the X-Men (and subsequently X-Factor and the New Mutants). To ensure their victory, the militant, mutant hating Genoshans form a dark alliance with Cameron Hodge.
At the time the war on the X-Men is declared, the X-Men hardly exist as a team, a Diaspora that has been in place for some time (Xavier was off planet, expected not to return and nearly every X-Man was long ago counted for dead). A small number of them have regrouped in the ruins of the X-Mansion, still devastated after the climax of Inferno, but the New Mutants, under the care of newcomer Cable, are also in residence, and chafe at the sudden invasion of their home by X-Men who have seemingly risen from the grave. Storm, who at the time had physically reverted to a 13-year-old form, and several of the New Mutants are kidnapped by a squad of Magistrates in a lightening strike assault of the campus.
Although the kidnapping was widely publicized, the US government was taking little action against the abduction of children on their own soil, and so the remnant X-Men, X-Factor and the remaining New Mutants gather together to coordinate a clandestine rescue effort. Meanwhile, one of the New Mutants held captive is apparently killed, the rest of the now-powerless captives make an escape attempt, and one of the groups of fractured X-Men (Wolverine and Psylocke, along with Jubilee) launch a rescue mission of their own, and discover one of their own (Havok) is a point man for the enemy.
What ensues is a desperate battle for the heroic mutant children of Xavier against an entire nation of humans that view mutants as little more than a convenient resource, and a mad cyborg butcher that just won't die. Death, mutilation, injustice and incarceration are all levied upon the X-Men, X-Factor and the New Mutants, making any hope for victory as bitter as it is slight.
The X-Tinction Agenda brought to a close the established order of the X-universe of the (latter half of) 1980s. The X-Men reformed as a team once more. X-Factor questioned their decision to remain apart from the X-Men and would soon return to the fold. The New Mutants, under the radical mentorship of Cable, and no doubt further swayed by the horror endured in Genosha, took a more militant path and abandoned their position as mere students of the Xavier Institute to become soldiers in the war for mutant rights (and survival) without the oversight of the X-Men (who they viewed as being poor stewards in Xavier's absence). The X-Men had long been scattered and divided for most of the '80s, and their struggles were mainly defensive pursuits of survival; but following the X-Tinction agenda there would be more unity between the extended family of the X-Men, and the series would adopt a much more apocalyptic tone for the rest of the `90s. In the X-Tinction Agenda one sees the state of Genosha as it originally was, a slave nation ruled by human prejudice. Eventually it would come to be regarded as the mutant homeland, undergoing a series of trials such as the dictatorship of Magneto and a genocidal assault by Sentinels under the control of Cassandra Nova. This volume is both an ending and a beginning that reverberates on into even current issues of the uncanny X-Men.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book for fans of the X-Men or just Sci-Fi., September 4, 1998
By A Customer
The X-Men, longtime proponents of mutant rights, are pulled into a feud with the island nation of Genosha, where mutants are working stock for the human elite. The group, along with the New Mutants, are accosted by Genoshan Magistrates, and eventually reunited with X-Factor as well. This is X-cellent story telling, with a few more than surprising twists. The story keeps up the vein of non-stop action and richly layered characterization, as well as political and racial strife, which have made the X-Men the sensation that they are today.
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