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Issue Details

Issue #40
Published July 1998
Cover Price 1.99 USD
Pages 38
Editing Ruben Diaz
Notes Gatefold Marvel Universe Guide front cover.

Cover Details - "Truth Be Told: The Secret Of Penance Revealed!"

Characters Penance
Genre superhero
Pencils Terry Dodson
Inks Rachel Dodson
Colors ? McNabb
Letters Typeset

22 page Generation X story "Pride & Penance!"

Characters Generation X [Banshee; Emma Frost [White Queen]; M; Husk; Synch; Skin; Jubilee; Chamber; Penance]; VILLAINS: Emplate (flashback); Bianca LaNeige; Warpy; Stinky; Windy; Spikey; Greasy; Brainy; Blurry
Synopsis Synch is in a deep coma after taking a bad beating from two local thugs but his mutant power begins to synch with his teammates and snaps him out of it; After returning to the school, the M Twins explain their origins (hold on, kids, this gets tricky); In the past, Emplate approached his perfect sister, Monet, and asked her to take part in his world ruling schemes; Monet laughed him off; To teach her a lesson in humility, Emplate transformed her into the creature we know as Penance; Emplate and Monet's twin sisters sent him to an alternate dimension for his actions and Penance followed; Mourning the loss of their sister and in an effort to keep her close, the twins merged into one being that looked exactly like Monet; Thus, until this point, Monet has been Penance and the twins have been M; In the present, the twins merge back into the image of Monet; They switch places with their sister so Monet is once again herself and the twins are trapped in the body of Penance (whew, told ya); Bianca invades a spaceship full of sentient roaches, turns them into dwarves and decides to use them as lackeys in her bid to take down Emma Frost.
Genre superhero
Script Larry Hama
Pencils Terry Dodson
Inks Rachel Dodson
Colors Felix Serrano
Letters Richard Starkings & Comicraft; Liz Agraphiotis