X-Men: The 198 (2006)

Valerie Cooper addresses the 198, revealing their plans to create permanent facilities and coordinate off-site excursions. The catch being that those who wish to leave on the estate must agree to be implanted with a sub-dermal electronic tag. This proclamation sets off Erg, who voices the concerns and anxieties of many in the group who feel their civil rights are being abused. Even members of the X-Men have misgivings about these new tactics. The conference ends in a fiery display of power and sharp words between Emma Frost and Valerie Cooper. Jazz shares the tale of how O*N*E officials coerced him into relocating to the Xavier Estate by blackmailing him with jail time for his illicit drug dealing with his mysterious roommate Johnny D. Magma continues to be suspicious of Empath and warns him to leave her alone, unaware that her new friend Johnny D. may prove a bigger threat. Mr. M finds comfort in the grateful arms of Lorelei. Jazz discovers his roommate’s disturbing ability to create miniature clones of others, unaware that he himself has been cloned. Most of the mutants agree to being tagged out of a desire to get out of Xavier’s for a while. While on the supervised excursion, Mammomax gets into a conflict with a local and is subdued via an electroshock administered by O*N*E via the electronic tag. This confirms the group’s suspicions that the tag was not merely meant to keep track of but to forcibly control the 198. Jazz uses the time away to score some more drugs from a local dealer. When he doesn’t return on time, O*N*E tracks him down via his tag. They find him dead in an alley unaware that he choked to death when Johnny D. put a noose around the neck of his mini-clone.

May 2006

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X-Men: The 198, Vol. 1

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