Blink #1

Availability

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Details

Publisher

Marvel Comics

Cover date

Mar 2001

Format

Comic

Pages

32

Credits

writer

Scott Lobdell

penciller

Trevor McCarthy

inker

Tyson McAdoo

colorist

Liquid! Graphics

letterer

Saida Temofonte, Richard Starkings

cover artist

Adam Kubert

editor

Mark Powers

Story

In the Age of Apocalypse three X-Men try to rescue a few human survivors in Dallas. In the heat of the battle Blink defies direct orders, and while Rogue and Morph have to continue the battle on their own she ventures into a fortress. Inside she finds a green alien from the planet Poppup. Learning that the Dark Beast plans to exploits his DNA, Blink follows the alien’s request and puts him out of his misery. Yet when she rams her crystal dagger into him he gets teleported away instead of dying – enough to spoil the Dark Beast’s plans. Later Magneto confronts Blink about her behavior and threatens her that if she again steps out of line, she will be forced to leave the team. Blink angrily replies that she doesn’t need them and ventures into Apocalypse’s stronghold on her own. She witnesses an encounter between Holocaust and Blastaar’s people from the Negative Zone. Thinking that the strange beings might be potential allies, Blink follows them into the portal leading back to the Negative Zone before Holocaust or the Infinites capture her. Blink blacks out and upon waking up she finds a man pointing a gun at her head. When asked about her name, Blink realizes that she doesn’t remember, she has complete amnesia.

Characters

Beast (Henry 'Hank' McCoy) · Rogue (Anna Marie Raven) · Magneto (Max / Erik Magnus Eisenhardt / Lehnsherr)