Whispers on the Wind

• Writer - Scott Lobdell
• Inker - Tim Townsend
• Inker - Al Milgrom
• Penciler - Roger Cruz
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Colorist - Steve Buccellato
• Colorist - Electric Crayon
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras

Summary

  In Central America, orphans find a man half dead in the mud. He rises; they run and get their nun, who brings her shotgun. He magnetically shoves it aside and speaks in German, all to her surprise. Then he collapses.

  Four days later the fever breaks, and he finds himself tied to a bed, so he observes, wordlessly. Sister Maria brings food and unties him; he has amnesia, so she lets him stay there. He shaves and finds a young face, which somehow seems wrong. Migdalia gives him a name: Joseph. Suddenly, they are shot at, and Migdalia convinces Joseph to just ignore the drug runners, like they always do.

  Joseph befriends the orphans (Magneto having been one, himself). He senses he had an evil past; Maria says everything can be forgiven, and before things can get romantic, hands him a cross.

  A month later, Joseph is repairing the tractor. Umberto tells him he's learning about mutants in school. Joseph senses someone and confronts him with a levitating pitchfork; Maria rushes over and introduces him to Ramos. Migdalia explains he's a government official bribed by the drug lords.

  Six days later, Joseph sees the barn burning. Ramos is there: he wants Joseph as hired muscle and has Maria and the orphans hostage. Joseph wraps him in barbed wire; "I will only ask this once. Where?" In the church basement. Joseph flings him into the stratosphere, then rides a horse to the rescue. The children hear gunfire, then silence. Joseph frees them, having killed all the drug runners mercilessly. The orphans are horrified; he leaves early the next morning. Maria hands him an ancient Time magazine with a cover article about the X-Men, to show him there are others like himself.

  Maria talks to the priest, wondering if she has unleashed Magneto on the world again. He says she instead gave a man the faith he needed, and a second chance.