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X-Men (1991-2001) #65-70
X-Men: Zero Tolerance
The X-Men. They are mutants, born with amazing powers and sworn to protect a world that both fears and hates them. Now, a rogue faction of the U.S. government, backed by powerful international forces and led by the mysterious man known only as Bastion, is about to launch a massive strike against the Children of the Atom. The strike has one goal: the extermination of the entire mutant race. This is the X-Men's darkest hour. This is Operation: Zero Tolerance.
320 pages, Paperback
Published March 1, 2000
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Larry Hama
1,955 books152 followersLarry Hama is an American writer, artist, actor and musician who has worked in the fields of entertainment and publishing since the 1960s.
During the 1970s, he was seen in minor roles on the TV shows M*A*S*H and Saturday Night Live, and appeared on Broadway in two roles in the original 1976 production of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures.
He is best known to American comic book readers as a writer and editor for Marvel Comics, where he wrote the licensed comic book series G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero, based on the Hasbro action figures. He has also written for the series Wolverine, Nth Man: the Ultimate Ninja, and Elektra. He created the character Bucky O'Hare, which was developed into a comic book, a toy line and television cartoon.
During the 1970s, he was seen in minor roles on the TV shows M*A*S*H and Saturday Night Live, and appeared on Broadway in two roles in the original 1976 production of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures.
He is best known to American comic book readers as a writer and editor for Marvel Comics, where he wrote the licensed comic book series G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero, based on the Hasbro action figures. He has also written for the series Wolverine, Nth Man: the Ultimate Ninja, and Elektra. He created the character Bucky O'Hare, which was developed into a comic book, a toy line and television cartoon.
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April 16, 2025
The mid-to late 1990s X-Men were mostly a slew of crossover events with big intended impacts that carried readers to the next slew of crossovers. For the most part, the crossovers had different ideas behind them: Charles Xavier is accidentally killed in the past which creates an alternate reality, Charles Xavier and Magneto are fused into a villain who can only be destroyed by the X-Men and who destroys most of the non-mutant superhero teams, and this fairly logical response where right wing humans decide that the threat of powerful super-villain mutants and alternate realities can only be contained by co-opting them for evil government plans.
This collection is certainly hokey at points, and the idea of mutants vs the government was tired when this volume came out and downright exhausted now, but it has some solid character beats and a refreshing lack of Magneto and very little Charles Xavier.
What I enjoy about this collection is that it's three different stories that don't quite intersect. The villain and his plot is really the nexus for these stories, all of which have some surprising and fun elements, and all of which shift focus on to lesser-explored characters. The X-Men story even introduces one completely new hero and reintroduces a cameo character and inserts her in such a way that you know she's going to be an X-Man soon, filling in the Shadowcat/Jubilee/Cannonball role.
I've decided this should be Headcanon because it's a story about the entire family of X-characters that features different-than-usual storytelling and doesn't quite feel like a previously told story, even if it has a famliar concept.
If you prefer your X-books to be blatanly political or you just want something different from the usual X-fare but with a tinge of familiarity, this is a good collection to pick up. There are several different versions of this story that include some overlap of issues but leaves some out and includes others. I can't say which is best but this is the version I've had sor about twenty years now.
This collection is certainly hokey at points, and the idea of mutants vs the government was tired when this volume came out and downright exhausted now, but it has some solid character beats and a refreshing lack of Magneto and very little Charles Xavier.
What I enjoy about this collection is that it's three different stories that don't quite intersect. The villain and his plot is really the nexus for these stories, all of which have some surprising and fun elements, and all of which shift focus on to lesser-explored characters. The X-Men story even introduces one completely new hero and reintroduces a cameo character and inserts her in such a way that you know she's going to be an X-Man soon, filling in the Shadowcat/Jubilee/Cannonball role.
I've decided this should be Headcanon because it's a story about the entire family of X-characters that features different-than-usual storytelling and doesn't quite feel like a previously told story, even if it has a famliar concept.
If you prefer your X-books to be blatanly political or you just want something different from the usual X-fare but with a tinge of familiarity, this is a good collection to pick up. There are several different versions of this story that include some overlap of issues but leaves some out and includes others. I can't say which is best but this is the version I've had sor about twenty years now.
November 28, 2015
I really enjoyed this collection of stories, which revolves around the X-Men being forced to go on the run in the face of the preeminent threat of Operation: Zero Tolerance, a government-funded group led by the mysterious and highly dangerous Bastion, whose anti-mutant ideals are enforced by a new breed of Sentinels -- the Prime Sentinels, who masquerade as ordinary humans, but transform into powerful drones when in the presence of mutants. I really liked how this collection included ALL of the OZT issues rather than a hit-and-miss, piecemeal assortment of them. The X-Men issues were decidedly the best, as Iceman gathers a strange but effective group of teammates (Cecilia Reyes, Marrow, and Sabra) to bring the fight back to Bastion himself, with Carlos Pacheco providing exquisite penciling work. Leinil Francis Yu's work is a little less visually appealing by comparison, but his work is still essential, as it showcases Cyclops, Phoenix, Cannonball, Storm, and Wolverine as they try to escape Bastion's clutches after they've been taken captive. Other issues show Marrow's brief interactions with Spider-Man, Jubilee's abduction by Bastion, her Generation X teammates' clash with Prime Sentinels, X-Man's solo work to rescue his "cousins" from this latest threat, and X-Force and the Mutant Liberation Front finding themselves caught in OZT's crosshairs. The conclusion of the storyline felt a little bit quick, but this is definitely an exciting graphic novel containing some of the best X-Men 90s stories!
January 6, 2019
I've always had a soft spot for this run, sidelining the core core team for most of the story to throw focus to lesser-known characters was a great call, and while Bastion wasn't a particularly original idea for a villain (person with access to the levers of power and super-science who hates mutants has been done a lot in the X-universe) he was a well rendered one, and the human-sentinel hybrids brought an interesting body horror element to the proceedings. Plus, I'm just a sucker for a good Jubilee story. This held up, I enjoyed it a lot, check it out if you want an example of 90s X-storytelling done well.
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