Murder Ballads

• Writer - Warren Ellis
• Writer - Ian Ed Ginton
• Penciler - Ariel Olivetti
• Lettering - Chris Eliopoulos
• Colorist - Avalon Studios
• Editor - Jason Liebig
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras

Summary

  Six months ago: Wisdom trains X-Force in an abandoned Hulkbuster base, with Danger Room robots with no safety protocols. Jesse and Tabitha expand control of their powers; Sam practices as a field leader. Then Wisdom makes them let James face the robots alone: when the High Evolutionary played with their powers, James got access to his entire genome (iss. 101), and he learns to fly.

  In the present: after Wisdom's murder, the team quickly moved to an abandoned office in a skyscraper in San Francisco; Wisdom taught them to survive.

  Domino briefs them on Tsung: half-Hungarian and half-Chinese, he has the mutant power of virtual bullets and used it to build a criminal empire in Asia. Then one day he walked away from it all and disappeared. Domino knows he's after her, since he killed her once before.

  Tsung's jet lands in the desert in California; he is greeted by government officials and kills everyone to keep himself secret.