germ free generation part 1

• Writer - Grant Morrison
• Penciler - Ethan Van Sciver
• Inker - Prentis Rollins
• Inker - Scott Hanna
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Colorist - Hi-Fi Design
• Ass't Editor - Pete Franco
• Editor - Mark Powers
• Editor in Chief - Joe Quesada

Germ Free Generation

Summary

  At a school assembly, a kid in a Magneto t-shirt shoots a bully. He's a geek, obsessed with comics, anime, and Sublime's book on mutants (see 2001 Ann.); the bully was secretly gay and mutant, and the geek took his mutant eyeballs for himself. The police enter and shoot the geek dead.

  Jean, using Cerebra, scans the minds of every newscaster on Earth: all reporting on mutants. Logan's in Wyoming, and she alerts him to a nearby mutant.

  Hank's unconscious in the med-lab, and anti-mutant graffiti covers the school's gates. Emma has a coterie of icy, blond telepaths at her beck; she is angry Xavier left them to face the mob, and she, Scott, and Jean go to reason with them. Jean denies Xavier has a private army, denies they have weapons, and claims their armor is for protection against the protesters. She justifies their unauthorized rescue squad as a response to the Sentinel attack on Genosha. (Evidently fudging the truth is okay, even if mind-manipulation isn't.) Emma, impatient, fells the crowd with orgasmic bliss.

  Jean check on Hank, whose mind is empty, and wonders if Emma's action was wrong. Scott says the mutants all have the flu, even Logan. Jean straight out asks if he slept with Emma (2001 Ann.); he says no, she kept him up all night.

  A 14 year old girl oozing chemicals is beaten and thrown out by her mutant-hating step-father; she wakes in the woods with gossamer wings. U-Men surround her; she resists by spitting chemicals and beating her wings, but then hits power lines and is captured.

  Scott and Emma meet with Sublime, who says he just wants to make humans into mutants and denies smuggling organs. Emma threatens him, so he uses the disembodied brain in his desk drawer to attack. He says Xavier's school is the perfect source of mutant organs.

  Jean guides Logan to the new mutant; he finds her sedated in a van, about to have her wings amputated.

Summary

  Cover name was changed to "New X-Men" for Issues 114 - 156.