- Script
- Chris Claremont (credited)
- Pencils
- Marc Silvestri (credited)
- Inks
- Steve Leialoha (credited)
- Colors
- Glynis Oliver (credited)
- Letters
- Tom Orzechowski (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The local TV anchor led of the evening news with a joke...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- New Mutants: Cannonball [Sam Guthrie] (picture); Cypher [Doug Ramsey] (picture); Magik [Illyana Rasputina] (picture); Mirage [Dani Moonstar] (picture); Sunspot [Roberto Da Costa] (picture); Wolfsbane [Rahne Sinclair] (picture)
Reavers: Bonebreaker (villain); Wade Cole (villain); Lady Deathstrike [Yuriko Oyama] (villain); Angelo Macon (villain); Donald Pierce (villain); Pretty Boy (villain); Murray Reese (villain); Skullbuster (villain)
Banshee [Sean Cassidy]; Callisto; Forge; Gateway (in Forge's vision); Jubilee [Jubilation Lee]; Moira MacTaggert; Magneto [Erik Lehnsherr]; Polaris [Lorna Dane]; Professor X [Charles Xavier] (picture); Jacob Reisz (villain, possessed by Shadow King); Amanda Sefton; Shadow King [Amahl Farouk] (villain, in Forge's vision); Doctor Lian Shen (first appearance); Storm [Ororo Munroe] (comes back as a pre-teen girl, also in forge's vision); Brigadier Alysande Stuart; Wolverine [Logan]; Zeb; Joe; Roxanne; Dr. Stuart Haydn
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Storm resurfaces, alive and a young girl. Wolverine and Jubilee escape the Reavers and leave Australia. Magneto breaks his association with the X-Folk. Polaris is on a ship whose crew has gone crazy and Banshee comes to the rescue. Forge battles the Shadow King on the psychic plane. The Shadow King takes a new body. The Reavers decide to invade Muir Isle.
- Reprints
Bridge issue tying up old plots and moving on to the next phase.