Murder Ballads

• Writer - Warren Ellis
• Writer - Ian Ed Ginton
• Penciler - Whilce Portacio
• Penciler - Lan Medina
• Inker - Gerry Alanguilan
• Inker - Boy Sicat
• Inker - Edgar Tadeo
• Inker - Gary Mayoralco
• Inker - Lan Medina
• Lettering - Chris Eliopoulos
• Editor - Jason Liebig
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras

Summary

  Wisdom's tombstone reads, "Stuff This for a Lark." Tabitha is upset that none of his Excalibur teammates shows up for the funeral, but Sam says X-Force is out of the loop, and they were probably busy. James is worried that the X-Men have turned their back on the whole team.

  An old woman with thugs show up at the gravesite; she tosses Wisdom a light. Domino arrives and says it's Wisdom's sister.

  Six months ago: after the High Evolutionary (iss. 101; Uncanny X-Men 380), Domino fights X-Force in a dockyard and defeats them. She wants to train them as martial artists, so they don't depend on their mutant powers.

  Wisdom shows up; after Genosha (iss. 95) he offered to lead them against anti-mutant spies. Sam and Jesse are in favor, since it would give the team a purpose. Dani and Domino quit in protest.

  In the present, the team catches up in a coffeehouse. Domino was possessed by Aenteros (Cable 82) but doesn't remember much about it. Now she needs X-Force, because she is being hunted: she took a mercenary job in New Delhi, to take down a terrorist organization that was attacking a Swiss conglomerate. But the mercenaries weren't paid, and Domino realizes Tsung is hunting her, killing two mercenaries in passing.