No Stranger To Fiction 0006: “Accidentally,  Like a Martyr”  [23
March 2010]  By Kevin M. Brettauer  We made mad love, shadow
love Random love and abandon love. Accidentally like a martyr.
The hurt gets worse, and the heart gets harder.  - Warren Zevon,
“Accidentally Like a Martyr”  Let a complex system repeat itself
long enough, eventually something surprising will occur. That,
too, is in God’s plan. - Head-Six, Battlestar Galactica  When
Warren Ellis took the reigns of three low-selling X-Men spin-
offs—X-Man, Generation X and X-Force—around a decade ago, fans
quickly weighed in, judging his ‘soft reboot’ of Nate Gray, the
multiversal refugee and titular hero of X-Man, to be the
greatest success of the ‘Counter X’ line. Transforming Nate from
an angsty, displaced young man into a hero with a purpose, a
literal shaman of the mutant ‘tribe’, Ellis tapped into the pre-
millennial subconscious. It was this mood that had just been
attempting to properly filter the alleged ‘Millennium Bug’, the
upcoming elections i