Sinister Neglect

• Writer - John Francis Moore
• Penciler - Steve Epting
• Inker - Al Milgrom
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Colorist - Glynis Oliver
• Editor - Kelly Corvese
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras

After Xavier: The Age of Apocalypse

Summary

  Artemis leads escapees from the pens, but Cyclops, Havok, Aurora, and Northstar at-tack them. The battle is brief, and Havok kills Artemis, to save Scott from her knife.

  In the statue of Apocalypse in New York harbor, Sinister plots his overthrow, before he starts a world war. Apocalypse had put in him charge of breeding the next genera-tion of mutants, and now his "children" are on their own.

  The Guthries guard the pens full of test subjects. Havok and Sam both resent Scott's insistence on benevolence. Havok visits Beast in his lab: he dissolves people and uses their genetic material to grow In-finites, who only last about a year. He is willing to support Havok, but says Apoca-lypse won't tolerate killing Scott. Havok goes next to Angel's club, which is inter-rupted by gunfire: Gyrich, who has him-self wired with explosives. The Bedlam brothers scramble his mind and equip-ment, and he is escorted out. Scarlett and Havok are having a scandalous secret af-fair: human and mutant.

  Sinister has been missing for days, so Scott has the Bedlams break into his sanctum, which he wrecked before he left. Scott real-izes he abandoned them, so he takes charge, but Havok has other ideas. Sinister remotely detonates the statue.