X-Men #95
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeX-Men (Vol. 2) #95 serves as the climactic tenth and final chapter of 'The Shattering,' the sprawling 1999 crossover that systematically dismantled Xavier's team and set the stage for the massive 'The Twelve' event. Its central dramatic payoff — confirming that the real Wolverine has been converted into Apocalypse's new Horseman Death — recontextualizes months of prior storylines across multiple X-titles and hands the franchise one of its most disturbing Logan moments: the man who defines himself by survival now serves the world's oldest mutant tyrant. The issue also delivers the first appearance of Fiz, a Skrull mutant whose conscience sets him apart from his race, and closes the loop on the Skrull infiltration subplot by placing Polaris's identity as one of the prophesied Twelve front and center, directly accelerating the next crossover.
In "Do unto Others," the X-Men infiltrate a Skrull base in a desperate bid to locate their missing teammate, Wolverine. But when they finally find him, he’s not the ally they remember—he’s now the grim, armored figure known as the Death Angel of the Apocalypse.
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The issue was produced during Alan Davis's tenure as plotter on both X-Men and Uncanny X-Men, a period when Marvel treated the two titles as a coordinated bi-weekly publication. Davis provided the plot and Chris Claremont scripted the dialogue, with Tom Raney on pencils, Scott Hanna on inks, and Marie Javins on colors; the book was edited by Mark Powers under editor-in-chief Bob Harras. Critical commentary at the time and since has noted that the Davis era carried heavy editorial oversight from Powers, Harras, and Claremont, which some readers felt constrained Davis's storytelling relative to his earlier Excalibur work — the 'Shattering' arc was explicitly positioned as a lead-in to 'The Twelve' rather than a self-contained narrative.
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- Published December 1999 (on-sale October 20, 1999); X-Men Vol. 2 #95; titled 'Do Unto Others.'
- Final chapter (Part 10 of 10) of 'The Shattering' crossover, continuing directly from Uncanny X-Men #375.
- Wolverine (Logan) is formally revealed as Apocalypse's Horseman Death — the identity mystery that had run through Astonishing X-Men (Vol. 2) #1–3 and across The Shattering is resolved here.
- First appearance of Fiz, a Skrull mutant who questions his people's orders and expresses sympathy toward the X-Men, distinguishing him from the hostile Skrull forces.
- Polaris (Lorna Dane) is explicitly identified as one of 'the Twelve,' a group of mutants Apocalypse has been surveilling — a plot thread that leads directly into the 'The Twelve' crossover beginning in X-Men #96.
- The X-Men use Cyclops (disguised as Polaris) as bait to lure and infiltrate the Skrull base, where a Skrull impostor of Havok (Alex Summers) is present; the real Havok is noted as lost in an alternate reality.
- Creative team: plot by Alan Davis, script by Chris Claremont, pencils by Tom Raney, inks by Scott Hanna, colors by Marie Javins, edited by Mark Powers (Bob Harras, editor-in-chief).
- Collected in the X-Men: The Shattering trade paperback (with Uncanny X-Men #372–375, X-Men #92–95, Astonishing X-Men #1–3, and X-Men 1999 Yearbook) and also in the X-Men vs. Apocalypse: The Twelve Omnibus.
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Reprinted in X-Men Universe #4 (2000), Gli Incredibili X-Men #121 (2000), Astonishing X-Men: Deathwish #[nn] (2000), X-Men #7 (2001), X-Men: The Shattering #[nn] (2009), X-Men vs. Apocalypse: The Twelve Omnibus #[nn] (2019), De X-Mannen #214
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