Uncanny X-Men # 291 1992 Underbelly Color Guide pg 14 by Tom Raney & Hilary Barta

Uncanny X-Men # 291 August 1992
“Underbelly” Marvel Color Guide Pgs 12 & 14
Color: Joe Rosas
Pencils: Tom Raney
Letters: Louis Buhalis
Inks: Hilary Barta
Writer: Scott Lobdell

The Morlocks attack Callisto and the Healer for betraying them and nearly beat them to death. The two reach Xavier’s mansion, where Mikhail Rasputin empathizes with Callisto, as both have lost their people. However, Mikhail is slightly mentally unbalanced, as he has been talking with the “ghosts” of all those who he has killed. The Healer uses his last strength to heal Callisto before dying but Callisto is also reverted back to her natural, ugly state.

The X-Men and Xavier head to the Morlock Tunnels, while Iceman stays to watch Callisto. Mikhail orders Iceman to free Callisto but Iceman refuses, leaving Mikhail no other choice but to use physical force to free her. In the Tunnels, Xavier deduces that the Morlocks madness is being caused by an emotional telepathic mutant, who has linked all the Morlocks together and is causing them to kill each other.

To make amends for her failure as their leader, Storm tries to calm the Morlocks down but they surround her and Storm’s claustrophobia takes over. Storm uses her lightening to free herself from the Tunnels and escape into Time Square but accidentally frees the mad Morlocks with her.

While the X-Men argue, the Healer gets up from his bed and stumbles over to Callisto, on whom he uses his powers.

Xavier tells his students to stop arguing. They seem to have more pressing problems to deal with. He then ushers his X-Men into the med-lab once again. Bishop asks why, but is cut off by a scream. The X-Men rush into the room and Colossus wonders if that was Callisto screaming. Bishop tells Colossus that it wasn’t. Callisto is gone and, instead, there is some vile, loathsome creature.

The X-Men find the Healer dead on the floor and Callisto, back in her original form, standing in front of him. Callisto tells Bishop that she is the same person who was in the room before. The Healer used the final measure of his power to heal her. It wasn’t nearly enough. All he did was return her body to its normal state. Her wounds are healed, at least, which will be a regret of the Morlocks when she finds them.