LACUNA

Real Name: Woodstock Schumaker

Identity/Class: Human mutant

Occupation: Investigative journalist/television talk show host of Lacuna & the Stars

Group Membership: None;
    formerly X-Force (The Anarchist/Tike Alicar, Doop, the Orphan/Guy Smith, Phat/Billy Bob Reilly, the Spike/Darian Elliott, U-Go Girl/Edie Sawyer, Vivisector/Myles Alfred) (see comments)

Affiliations: Dicky, Dr. Alex Finlay, Frank, the Law Offices of Williams, Williams & Williams (John Williams, others), Calvin Schumaker, Denise Schumaker, Steven Spielberg, X-Force/X-Statix (The Anarchist/Tike Alicar, Dead Girl/Moonbeam, Doop, el Guapo/Robbie Rodriguez, Henrietta Hunter, Mister Sensitive/Guy Smith, Phat/Billy Bob Reilly, the Spike/Darian Elliott, U-Go Girl/Edie Sawyer, Venus Dee Milo/Dee Milo, Vivisector/Myles Alfred)

Enemies: Bad Guy, the Brotherhood (Mike Asher, Chela, Fagin, Hoffman, Marshal, Ms. Fingers, Orwell, Malon Reeves, others), Spike Freeman, Mister Code and his Random Killers (unidentified gunman, others), the Mysterious Fan Boy (Arnie Lundberg), Donald Rumsfeld

Known Relatives: Calvin Schumaker (father), Denise Schumaker (mother)

Aliases: "The Eighth X-Static," "Honey" (nicknames)

Base of Operations: Malibu, California, USA

First Appearance: X-Force I#121 (December, 2001)

Powers/Abilities: Lacuna can open fractures in time and travel within these fractures, effectively allowing her to move between seconds of time. The act of tearing open her fractures releases waves of temporal energy that affect others in her vicinity, essentially trapping them, nearly frozen, within the normal passage of time around her.

Height: 5'7" (possibly originally 5'5" - see comments)
Weight: 127 lbs. (possibly originally 118 lbs. - see comments)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde





History:
(All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z I#6 - Lacuna entry - BTS) - Mutant Woodstock was born in Malibu, California to extremely liberal parents.

(X-Force I#122 (fb) - BTS) - Woodstock sought to make the world a better place in some way in an effort to be a disappointment to her millionaire parents.

(Marvel Encyclopedia HC Vol. 2: X-Men - Lacuna entry - BTS) - Unfortunately for Lacuna, nothing appeared to shock her parents and she thought perhaps joining the media-savvy X-Force (see comments) team might properly annoy them.

(X-Force I#121 (fb) - BTS) - The mutant Lacuna decided she wanted to join X-Force and opted to prove how useful she could be to the team by using her powers to slip in and out of time to play practical jokes on them.

(X-Force I#121) - While the celebrity mutant team X-Force was reviewing footage of a potential new member of the team called the Spike, Lacuna secretly used her powers to move between seconds of time to put various hats on X-Force member U-Go Girl. Later, as X-Force members the Orphan and the Anarchist relaxed poolside and discussed the Orphan's budding feelings for U-Go Girl, Lacuna again secretly used her powers to dump living fish into the pool and paint her codename onto the wall. Finding the sudden appearance of fish very strange, the Anarchist looked up and noticed the word "Lacuna" painted on the wall. Having never heard of the word, the Anarchist then consulted the knowledge of his teammate Vivisector in the library, learning that the word "Lacuna" primarily meant "a missing portion, especially in a manuscript or text" and that it could also refer to "a missing part of someone's life." During the discussion, Lacuna again secretly painted her codename onto the wall but the group did not notice it. 




    Not long after, as the Orphan and U-Go Girl discussed U-Go Girl's upcoming television talk show guest hosting duties, Lacuna again used her powers to travel between seconds and paint her name onto the wall, again going completely unnoticed. Returning home, Lacuna joined her parents but, in an effort to rebel against her overly-accepting parents, she decided she was going to give her dinner to homeless people, to which her father replied that there were no homeless people around their home. When her father continued, noting that homeless people couldn't get through their security gates, Lacuna commented that she would leave the gates herself but this only provoked her concerned parents into suggesting they all leave together and go shopping in Santa Monica. Unhappy that she had been unable to disappoint her parents as intended, Lacuna put her plate back down and decided not to go out at all. Up in her room later that evening, she watched on television X-Force initiated their newest member, the Spike, at a press conference, noting to herself that the media didn't seem to understand what X-Force was really about. Much later, as X-Force relaxed poolside, Lacuna appeared from seemingly nowhere, making a grand entrance and introducing herself. She revealed that she had been the one doing all of the crazy stuff to the team of late and expressed interest in joining X-Force. When the Orphan argued that Lacuna couldn't join X-Force due to not following the proper channels to get into the team and U-Go Girl noted that Lacuna didn't even have a talent agent. Lacuna argued back that she truly believed in the team and were committed more to justice than their public image suggested, insisting that the team had to give her a chance to prove her value to them. She then exclaimed that if the team declined her offer to join the team, she would throw herself in the boiling pool water that the Anarchist had heated up right before her entrance. Intrigued by Lacuna's claims, U-Go Girl told Lacuna no.

(X-Force I#122) - Lacuna again insisted that X-Force give her a chance to prove herself and when the Orphan argued that X-Force members have to have proven track records or membership would be like handing down a death sentence, Lacuna exclaimed that she was willing to die for X-Force. Despite Lacuna's claims that X-Force stood for a new world where the truths of old were blown away and U-Go Girl joking that perhaps Lacuna could fit a spot in the team's PR department, X-Force still declined her offer for membership and Lacuna opted to prove herself and make it so X-Force had to select her. She then opened a fracture in time and stole U-Go Girl's talk show script right out from the under the nose of Doop, who had followed her in between seconds of time. Once she returned home, Lacuna revealed her mutant nature to her parents and that she was planning to publicly out herself on The Larry King Show that night. They were delighted and Lacuna's mother expressed excitement at telling her friend Martha, much to the frustration of Lacuna, who had hoped to disappoint them.

    On the night of U-Go Girl's talk show debut on The Larry King Show, Lacuna and her parents arrived to sit in the studio audience and as they entered, Lacuna's parents expressed pride in her choice to out herself as a mutant and join X-Force. During the show, a fight broke out between the members of X-Force and Lacuna saw an opportunity to prove herself by breaking up the fight, doing so by traveling between seconds and removing everyone's clothing. Lacuna then announced her official candidacy for membership in X-Force live on the air and an angry U-Go Girl demanded that Lacuna return their clothing, which Lacuna did as her accepting parents cheered from the studio audience. Later that night, U-Go Girl had dinner with the Orphan and during the dinner, Lacuna used her powers to put U-Go Girl's martini glass atop U-Go Girl's head before revealing her presence. Despite U-Go Girl's anger at Lacuna's practical jokes, the Orphan informed Lacuna that she had his vote to join X-Force and when the Orphan also commented that the Anarchist also wanted her on the team, Lacuna happily exited the scene. She then tracked down the Anarchist at a casino and traveled between seconds to kiss him while he was frozen in time as a thank you. When U-Go Girl's backdoor television talk show pilot was canceled and the offer instead given to Lacuna, she accepted and later declined to attend an X-Force press conference to announce her membership into the team, instead filming the first episode of her talk show, Lacuna & the Stars! For the first episode, Lacuna revealed to the public how she would be popping up in all sorts of places to catch celebrities off guard and how she no longer felt X-Force was all that important. As her tearful parents watched in disappointment, Lacuna remarked that all she really ever wanted was to be a disappointment to her parents.

(The Brotherhood I#8 (fb) - BTS) - Lacuna appeared on a billboard with X-Force advertising a cola soft drink.

(The Brotherhood I#8 - BTS) - As the terrorist mutant Brotherhood sought a new target for their terrorism, their leader Hoffman announced that the idea came to him as if by divine intervention, motioning towards the Lacuna/X-Force billboard outside his window.

(The Brotherhood I#9) - Lacuna accompanied X-Force in appearing in a parade in their honor, where the Brotherhood attacked them. After X-Force made quick work of the Brotherhood, killing a majority of its members, Lacuna stood by X-Force and surveyed the carnage that had occurred.

(X-Force I#129) - Following the death of U-Go Girl, the Orphan returned to his daily Russian roulette routine but before he could pull the trigger on the gun, Lacuna secretly used her powers to travel between seconds and replace the gun with a toilet plunger. Suspecting Lacuna's handiwork, the Orphan demanded that Lacuna show herself and Lacuna then appeared, light-heartedly commenting that he could less harm with a plunger. He snatched the gun back from her, angrily remarking that his Russian roulette routine was none of her business, but Lacuna replied that she had decided to make it her business before using her powers to swap the gun for a rose. When Lacuna reminded the suicidal Orphan that his status as leader of X-Force still meant something, the Orphan reminded her that X-Force didn't mean enough to her to accept their offer for membership but Lacuna claimed she couldn't measure up to the other members. The Orphan quickly reminded her of her television show offer and Lacuna admitted that the TV show might have had more to do with her turning down the offer of X-Force membership. She then invited him to appear on her show to publicly discuss the potential new name of X-Force and U-Go Girl's death. The Orphan agreed and soon went on Lacuna & the Stars to announce that X-Force was going to be renamed X-Statix per U-Go Girl's dying words.

(X-Statix I#5 (fb) - BTS) - Lacuna began planning an episode of her show about X-Statix owner Spike Freeman, digging up dirt on where Freeman's money came from and where it went.

(X-Statix I#5) - Lacuna watched on television as X-Statix revealed its newest member, the Mysterious Fan Boy. Later, as X-Statix went out for dinner at the Chimpanzee's Tea Party restaurant, Lacuna appeared and asked to join party. She then invited the Mysterious Fan Boy to appear on her show to reveal his true identity but the Orphan angrily demanded she leave. Curious as to why the Orphan was being so secretive about the Mysterious Fan Boy's identity and still wanting a story for her show, Lacuna set aside her plans for an episode on Spike Freeman and next used her powers to secretly sneak into X-Statix HQ alongside Freeman to unmask the Mysterious Fan Boy. She then aired footage of the unmasking on her show, revealing the Mysterious Fan Boy to be Arnie Lundberg, a young mutant who had formerly ruled his small Minnesota town. Angered at Lacuna's actions, the Orphan visited Lacuna's dressing room and demanded she help him fix the PR nightmare created by her unmasking of the Mysterious Fan Boy. After the Orphan demanded she help kill the erratic, dangerous and unpredictable Mysterious Fan Boy, Lacuna angrily considered punching the Orphan in the face but found she could not bring herself to do so and reluctantly agreed to help him.

    During X-Statix's next mission, Lacuna upheld her agreement with the Orphan by secretly using her powers to fatally inject chemicals into the Mysterious Fan Boy's heart that exacerbated his preexisting heart condition, causing a fatal heart attack when the Mysterious Fan Boy was forced to strain himself against escaped mutant convict Razorhead. Lacuna later met with the Orphan on a secluded beach and expressed her anger at him for pressuring her into murdering the Mysterious Fan Boy. Despite the Orphan's insistence that the heart condition would have eventually killed the Mysterious Fan Boy anyway, Lacuna accused the Orphan of being accustomed to murder and the Orphan became angry, announcing that he didn't enjoy killing. The argument was soon interrupted by fans asking for autographs and Lacuna stormed off, asking to be left alone, but the Orphan followed, announcing that he was quitting X-Statix. Shocked and at first unsure if the Orphan was serious, Lacuna grabbed her cellphone and had Frank cancel the taping of her show for the next day, remarking that she didn't care how angry Steven Spielberg would get about the cancellation, as something bigger had come up.

(X-Statix I#6) - Lacuna went on her show and announced that she had been morally blackmailed into aiding in the murder of the Mysterious Fan Boy. She then asked her fans whether it was right for the Orphan (Guy Smith) to ask her to assist in the Fan Boy's murder and whether they want him to heroically return to X-Statix, essentially asking whether they wanted the good Guy or the bad Guy. X-Statix members Anarchist and Dead Girl appeared on Lacuna's show in support of "bad" Guy and Vivisector and Phat appeared in support of "good" Guy. A few days later, during the taping of another episode of Lacuna & the Stars!, a villain calling himself the Bad Guy crashed the set, gutting it, and attacked Lacuna but she fled the scene using her mutant powers.

(X-Statix I#7) - Lacuna met with X-Statix in an attempt to cut a deal with them in which the team would attack and unmask the Bad Guy, revealing his identity to X-Statix and allowing the unmasking to air on Lacuna & the Stars!. Lacuna then tagged along with X-Statix during their subsequent attack on the Bad Guy but discovered that one of the many stolen costumes worn by the Bad Guy rendered the villain partially out of sync with normal time, preventing Lacuna from using her powers to approach him safely. As a worried Lacuna and Anarchist watched, X-Statix member Venus Dee Milo teleported herself and the Bad Guy from the scene.

(X-Statix I#13 (fb) - BTS) - At some point, Lacuna aired an episode of Lacuna & the Stars! that revealed Donald Rumsfeld with his pants down.

(X-Statix I#13) - Lacuna welcomed newly-resurrected pop star Henrietta Hunter onto Lacuna & the Stars! and she questioned Lacuna on how hard it was to be accepted by X-Statix. As Henrietta answered Lacuna by saying it was a walk in the park compared to the music business, Europan agent Reggie watched the interview on television and began plotting with his ally Dicky on how to properly finish Henrietta. The interview continued with Henrietta revealed how the high-ranking European establishment had tried to stop her charitable work with bribes, threats and even propositions and when Henrietta noted that she would be naming names on her upcoming appearance on The Ricki Lake Show, Lacuna joked that the upcoming appearance would feature two celebrities back from the dead on one show.

(X-Statix I#15) - When X-Statix grew tired of Henrietta Hunter stealing their spotlight and teleported onto Henrietta's yacht to kill her, Lacuna used her powers to secretly hitch a ride on Venus Dee Milo's teleportational coattails and she appeared just in time to reveal X-Statix's plans to Henrietta. X-Statix immediately demanded to know why Lacuna was interfering and she explained how Henrietta represented all women who were used and thrown aside. X-Statix were reluctantly convinced by Lacuna's speech not to kill Henrietta.

(X-Statix I#16 (fb) - BTS) - Using her powers to slip outside of time, Lacuna eavesdropped on private X-Statix conversations and learned that X-Statix had been railroaded into adding Henrietta Hunter to the team. She also began using her powers to spy on Mister Sensitive (formerly the Orphan), learning that he and Venus Dee Milo argued often about Mister Sensitive's former love interest, U-Go Girl.

(X-Statix I#16) - After Henrietta Hunter became team leader of X-Statix and the new U.S. Secretary of Homeland Defense, Lacuna interviewed Henrietta at a fashion show where she asked Henrietta if she thought it was the right time to launch a clothing line when scared people were being randomly killed by Mister Code and his Random Killers. Henrietta replied in the affirmative, assuring Lacuna that the fashion show was showing the Random Killers that X-Statix would not be frightened by their actions. When Henrietta's actions caused a public backlash against her, Mister Sensitive (formerly the Orphan) met with Lacuna, who suggested that X-Statix had planned the entire situation to create the backlash against Henrietta. Admitting she had used her powers to learn how X-Statix had been pressured to add Henrietta to the team, the drunken Lacuna then attempted to hit on Mister Sensitive but he pushed her away, accidentally knocking her back into a glass table. Cutting her arm on shards of the shattered glass, Lacuna accused Mister Sensitive of assaulting her and despite Mister Sensitive's attempts to apologize, Lacuna angrily used her powers to disappear into a fracture of time. After bandaging her arm, she emerged seconds later on the sidewalk outside. While walking down the street lost in thought over her earlier actions, Lacuna was confronted by Europan government agent Dicky, who gave her folders containing damaging evidence against X-Statix and their team owner, Spike Freeman. Having previously hired a man to acquire the documents from Dicky, Spike Freeman learned that they had been passed over to Lacuna and he hired Mister Code to assassinate Lacuna.

    Later that evening, Lacuna again met with Mister Sensitive and informed him that she had come into the possession of documents connecting Spike Freeman to the terrorist Saddam Hussein. She then expressed her love for Mister Sensitive, who suggested she was infatuated rather than actually in love before asking where the documents were. After Lacuna explained that the documents were with her lawyer and would be released if anything happened to her, Mister Sensitive suggested she go ahead and release them, as he didn't care what happened to Spike. Lacuna then began to cry, revealing that Spike Freeman would not be the only one destroyed by the release of the documents. An angry Mister Sensitive subsequently confronted Spike Freeman and the rest of X-Statix about the documents and their implications and when he expressed thoughts that he could persuade Lacuna to turn the documents over to the team, Spike Freeman explained that they shouldn't worry about Lacuna with all of the recent random killings that had been happening. Realizing Spike intended to have Lacuna killed, Mister Sensitive angrily kicked Spike in the head, breaking his neck. He then left to warn Lacuna and arrived as she was leaving her television studio. Yelling to get Lacuna's attention, Mister Sensitive witnessed Lacuna getting shot by one of the Random Killers.

(X-Statix I#17) - As Lacuna lay bleeding on the ground, Mister Sensitive used his levitation powers to float to the roof, where the shooter was located. During Mister Sensitive's battle with the Random Killer, an ambulance arrived and took Lacuna to a local hospital. When Mister Sensitive later visited the hospital, Lacuna's parents, refusing to believe the shooting to be a random event, blamed X-Statix for their daughter's injuries. Mister Sensitive then returned to X-Statix HQ to discuss how to stop the release of Lacuna's documents  without the knowledge of who Lacuna's lawyers were and Mister Sensitive came up with the idea to read her pulse using his mutant sensitivity powers. X-Statix member Vivisector subsequently accompanied Mister Sensitive back to the hospital, where Mister Sensitive felt Lacuna's pulse as Vivisector read a list of lawyers from the Yellow Pages. Learning that Lacuna dealt with the lawyers Williams, Williams and Williams, X-Statix next teleported into the law offices in hoping of finding the incriminating documents but Lacuna's lawyer, John Williams, revealed copies of the documents and announced plans to destroy X-Statix by releasing them to the public. During a subsequent newscast announcing the information contained in Lacuna's documents, reporter Bob cut to a satellite feed from Lacuna's hospital, where her parents asked the country to pray for their daughter.

(X-Statix I#19) - On a new episode of Lacuna & the Stars!, medics brought the seemingly still comatose Lacuna onto the stage on a gurney. An evangelist guest on the show then claimed that while medical science had given up on saving Lacuna, God had not and the world's prayers could still save Lacuna as he pulled out her life support tubes. Thinking that the evangelist was sentencing Lacuna to death, X-Statix teleported into the television studio and demanded the host take his hands off Lacuna but Lacuna herself sat up and claimed she had been saved by the power of prayer, much to X-Statix cameraman Doop's confusion. A few days later, Vivisector was injected with a serum to remove his mutant powers by Dr. Alex Finlay. Two hours later, Finlay and a depowered Myles Alfred (formerly Vivisector) went on Lacuna & the Stars! to demonstrate how Myles was now completely devoid of mutant powers.

Comments: Created by Peter Milligan and Michael Allred.

    It was originally not revealed whether Woodstock was a first or last name but her parents called her Woodstock so it could have been ASSumed that it was her first name since her parents wouldn't have called her by her last name...At the time of the original writing of this profile (12/16/2004), some of the other Appendix writers had this to say about her name:
A valid hypothesis, though "Even my parents call me Mulder." It's also conceivable, given her family's interpersonal relationships, that Woodstock is a nickname that she chose in the hope of annoying her parents, only to find them accepting and using it. - Loki

Since her parents were (presumably) intended to be stereotypical quasi-hippie liberals, they named her "Woodstock" after the famous 1969 music festival; unlike Captain Hip and Sunshine, who named their daughter "T. Ruth," Lacuna's parents are probably too young to have been "actual" hippies, but the principle is the same. That or when she was little they nicknamed her "Woodstock" because she was small, blonde, and behaved in some cute way that was suggestive of a bird.
--Ronald Byrd

Of course, the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z I#6 later confirmed in 2006 that Woodstock was indeed her first time. Her last name of Schumaker and the names of her parents were revealed in Lacuna's entry in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z HC Vol. 6.

    Lacuna's height and weight were originally listed as 5'5", 118 lbs. in Marvel Encyclopedia HC Vol. 2: X-Men but was later corrected to the more accurate 5'7", 127 lbs. in her later Marvel Handbook entries. The weight fluctuation could be easily explained away but I'm not sure how she grew two inches unless the original height and weight were in error...maybe something to do with her exposure to the Mysterious Fan Boy's powers during his murder? Or perhaps when she uses her powers, it affects her physically causing a small mass shift as she tears through time and the original stats are her stats when not using her powers...

    Lacuna's entry in the Marvel Encyclopedia HC Vol. 2: X-Men mentions that Lacuna opted to join X-Statix to annoy her parents, though the team was still called X-Force at that point. They didn't become X-Statix until well after Lacuna had turned their offer of membership to get her own TV show. Therefore, the team name of X-Statix in that Marvel Encyclopedia entry is an error, as it was X-Force at the time. The entry also seems to suggest that after Lacuna revealed her mutant powers to her parents and they accepted it, she then decided to join "X-Statix" in hopes of finally annoying them. This is also told out of order in the entry, as Lacuna did not reveal her nature as a mutant to her parents until after she had already tried to prove herself worthy of joining X-Force by playing practical jokes on them and after they had first refused to allow her to join.

    While Lacuna turned down the offer before even participating on any actual missions with X-Force, the X-Statix entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z HC Vol. 13 (2010) confirms that Lacuna was indeed officially added to the X-Force roster despite leaving immediately to host her own television show. Therefore, she was an official member of the team for a VERY short time.

Profile by Proto-Man.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Lacuna has no known connections to

John Williams has no known connection to


Bob

Bob was a news reporter that reported on information released in incriminating documents obtained Lacuna. During the newscast, Bob reported on how the documents linked members of X-Statix to illegal drug transactions, land scams and the downloading of mp3 files. He then reported on how Lacuna was still fighting for her life following a shooting and he cut to a feed directly from Lacuna's hospital room, where Lacuna's parents asked for prayers. Bob next reported on how the random killings of Mister Code were continuing to plague the country.

--X-Statix I#17

Frank

Frank was an employee of Lacuna's who worked on the Lacuna & the Stars television show. When Lacuna met with the Orphan and he revealed his intent to quit X-Statix, Lacuna called up Frank and had him cancel the taping of her show for the next day, remarking that she didn't care if Steven Spielberg was going to be mad, as something bigger had come up.

--X-Statix I#5 - BTS

Martha

Martha was a friend of Lacuna's mother, Denise. When Lacuna informed her parents that she was a mutant, they were delighted and Denise expressed excitement to tell her friend Martha.

--X-Force I#122 - BTS

Calvin Schumaker

Calvin Schumaker was the anti-establishment, billionaire father of Woodstock Schumaker, later the mutant Lacuna. Growing bored with her parents' constant acceptance of her, Woodstock sought to become a disappointment to them and ultimately decided the best way to do so was to join the celebrity X-Force group. After spending some time displaying her powers by playing pranks on X-Force, Woodstock revealed her mutant powers to her parents and, much to Woodstock's chagrin, they were thrilled. Calvin and Denise then accompanied Woodstock (as Lacuna) to a taping of The Larry King Show that was intended a backdoor pilot for a show hosted by X-Force member U-Go Girl. Thinking Lacuna was going to accept a membership offer into X-Force, Calvin and Denise were shocked when Lacuna next appeared on television hosting her own television show and informing the public that while she thought she wanted to join X-Force, all she really wanted to be a disappointment to her parents. Later, when Lacuna was shot by one of the Random Killers after acquiring damaging evidence against Spike Freeman and X-Statix (formerly X-Force), Calvin and Denise stayed at Lacuna's beside in the hospital and Calvin berated X-Statix's Mister Sensitive when he came to visit, blaming X-Statix for putting Lacuna in harm's way to begin with.

--X-Force I#121 (All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z I#6 - Lacuna entry - BTS, Marvel Encyclopedia HC Vol. 2: X-Men - Lacuna entry - BTS, X-Force I#121-122, X-Statix I#17,

Denise Schumaker

Denise Schumaker was the anti-establishment, billionaire mother of Woodstock Schumaker, later the mutant Lacuna. Growing bored with her parents' constant acceptance of her, Woodstock sought to become a disappointment to them and ultimately decided the best way to do so was to join the celebrity X-Force group. After spending some time displaying her powers by playing pranks on X-Force, Woodstock revealed her mutant powers to her parents and, much to Woodstock's chagrin, they were thrilled. Calvin and Denise then accompanied Woodstock (as Lacuna) to a taping of The Larry King Show that was intended a backdoor pilot for a show hosted by X-Force member U-Go Girl. Thinking Lacuna was going to accept a membership offer into X-Force, Calvin and Denise were shocked when Lacuna next appeared on television hosting her own television show and informing the public that while she thought she wanted to join X-Force, all she really wanted to be a disappointment to her parents. Later, when Lacuna was shot by one of the Random Killers after acquiring damaging evidence against Spike Freeman and X-Statix (formerly X-Force), Calvin and Denise stayed at Lacuna's beside in the hospital.

--X-Force I#121 (All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z I#6 - Lacuna entry - BTS, Marvel Encyclopedia HC Vol. 2: X-Men - Lacuna entry - BTS, X-Force I#121-122, X-Statix I#17,

The Law Offices of Williams, Williams & Williams

The Law Offices of Williams, Williams and Williams housed three lawyers surnamed Williams, one of which was John Williams. After Lacuna acquired damaging documents, she arranged for a copy of the documents to be kept at Williams, Williams and Williams and when she was shot by one of the Random Killers on X-Statix owner Spike Freeman's orders, X-Statix teleported into the Williams, Williams and Williams offices in hopes of finding and destroying the documents. John Williams met them and announced his plans to publicly announce the evidence.

--X-Statix I#17

John Williams

John Williams was one of the lawyers working for the law firm of Williams, Williams and Williams. After Lacuna was presented with incriminating evidence against X-Statix, she gave the documents to her lawyers and when X-Statix stormed the law offices in an attempt to destroy the documents, John Williams introduced himself. He explained that he had in his possession copies of the documents and that X-Statix would be screwed when he released them to the public.

--X-Statix I#16 - BTS (unidentified) (#16 - BTS, #17,

images: (without ads)
X-Force I#122, front cover (Lacuna, main image)
X-Force I#121, p11, pan6 (Lacuna, non-costumed headshot)
X-Force I#121, p10, pan4 (Lacuna in civilian clothes with costume headgear on)
X-Force I#121, p21, pan3 (Lacuna surrounded by a temporal field)
X-Force I#122, p13, pan3 (Lacuna using her powers to open a temporal fracture)
The Brotherhood I#9, p2-3, pan1 (Lacuna in parade with X-Force)
X-Force I#129, p18, pan1 (Lacuna using her powers to snatch a gun from the Orphan)
X-Statix I#5, p20, pan2 (Lacuna dressed incognito)
X-Statix I#17, p11, pan4 (Bob)
X-Statix I#17, p8, pan5 (Law Offices of Williams, Williams & Williams)
X-Force I#122, p7, pan3 (Calvin Schumaker)
X-Force I#121, p11, pan5 (Denise Schumaker)
X-Statix#17, p9, panel 4 (John Williams)


Appearances:
X-Force I#121 (December, 2001) - Peter Milligan (writer), Michael Allred (art), Axel Alonso (editor)
X-Force I#122 (January, 2002) - Peter Milligan (writer), Michael Allred (art), Axel Alonso (editor)
The Brotherhood I#8 (February, 2002) - X (writer), Sean Phillips, Kent Williams (art), Axel Alonso (editor)
The Brotherhood I#9 (March 2002) - X (writer), Sean Phillips, Kent Williams (art), Axel Alonso (editor)
X-Force I#129 (August, 2002) - Peter Milligan (writer), Duncan Fegredo (art), Axel Alonso (editor)
X-Statix I#5 (January, 2003) - Peter Milligan (writer), Paul Pope (art), Axel Alonso (editor)
X-Statix I#6 (February, 2003) - Peter Milligan (writer), Michael Allred (art), Axel Alonso (editor)
X-Statix I#7 (March, 2003) - Peter Milligan (writer), Mike Allred (art), Axel Alonso (editor)
Marvel Encyclopedia HC Vol. 2: X-Men (2003) - Syd Barney-Hawke (writer), Eric J. Moreels (writer, researcher), Michael Allred (Lacuna entry art), Mark D. Beazley, Jeff Youngquist (editors)
X-Statix I#13 (October 2003) - Peter Milligan (writer), Mike Allred (art), Axel Alonso (editor)
X-Statix I#15 (December, 2003) - Peter Milligan (writer), Mike Allred (pencils), J. Bone (inks), Axel Alonso (editor)
X-Statix I#16 (January, 2004) - Peter Milligan (writer), Mike Allred (pencils), J. Bone (inks), Axel Alonso (editor)
X-Statix I#17 (February, 2004) - Peter Milligan (writer), Mike Allred (pencils), J. Bone (inks), Axel Alonso (editor)
X-Statix I#19 (April, 2004) - Peter Milligan (writer), Mike Allred (pencils), Nick Craine (inks), Axel Alonso (editor)
All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z I#6 (2006) - Jeff Christiansen (head writer, coordinator), Sean McQuaid, Michael Hoskin, Mark O'English, Stuart Vandal, Ronald Byrd, Eric J. Moreels, Barry Reese, Madison Carter, Anthony Flamini, Chris Biggs, Mike Fichera, Al Sjoerdsma, Rich Green, Eric Englehard (writers), Mike Allred (Lacuna entry art), Pond Scum (art reconstruction), Jeff Youngquist, Jennifer Grunwald (editors)


First posted: 12/16/2004
Last updated: 10/04/2024

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