- Real name: Barnell “Barry” Bohusk
- Alias: Beak
- Status: Inactive
- Known relatives: Charles Bohusk (father, deceased), Kathy Bohusk (mother, deceased), Angel Salvadore (wife), Tito and Axel (sons), Kara (daughter), three other unnamed children
- First appearance: New X-Men #117
- Created by: Grant Morrison & Ethan Van Sciver
- Total appearances: 81
Chronology:
- New X-Men #117 “Danger Rooms”
- New X-Men #119 “Germ Free Generation” Two of Three
- New X-Men #125 “Losers”
- New X-Men #126 “All Hell”
- New X-Men #131 “Some Angels Falling”
- New X-Men #135 “Teaching Children About Fractals” Riot at Xavier’s Part One
- New X-Men #136 “When X is Not X” Riot at Xavier’s Part Two
- New X-Men #137 “Riot at Xavier’s” Riot at Xavier’s Part Three
- New X-Men #138 “The Prime of Miss Emma Frost” Riot at Xavier’s Part Four
- New X-Men #140 “Murder at the Mansion” Murder at the Mansion Part Two
- New X-Men #141 “Whodunnit?” Murder at the Mansion Part Three
- New X-Men #146 “Planet X” Planet X Part One
- New X-Men #147 “Magneto Superior” Planet X Part Two
- New X-Men #148 “Survivor Type” Planet X Part Three
- New X-Men #149 “Phoenix in Darkness” Planet X Part Four
- New X-Men #150 “Phoenix Invictus” Planet X Part Five
- Exiles #46 “Earn Your Wings Part 1”
- Exiles #47 “Earn You Wings Part 2”
- Exiles #48 “Earn Your Wings Part 3”
- Exiles #49 “Mission: Impossible”
- Exiles #50 “The Big ‘M’ Part 1”
- Exiles #51 “The Big ‘M’ Part 2”
- Exiles #52 “Living Planet Part 1”
- Exiles #53 “Living Planet Part 2”
- Exiles #54 “Rube Goldberg”
- Exiles #55 “Bump in the Night Part I of III”
- Exiles #56 “Bump in the Night Part II of III”
- Exiles #57 “Bump in the Night Part III of III”
- Exiles #58 “Taking on Tanaraq”
- Exiles #59 “A Tooth for a Tooth”
- Exiles #62 “Timebreakers Part 1”
- Exiles #63 “Timebreakers Part 2”
- Exiles #64 “Timebreakers Part 3”
- Exiles #65 “Timebreakers Part 4”
- Exiles #66 “Destroy All Monsters Part 1”
- Exiles #67 “Destroy All Monsters Part 2”
- Exiles #68 “Destroy All Monsters Part 3”
- Exiles #69 “World Tour: House of M Part 1”
- Exiles #70 “World Tour: House of M Part 2”
- Exiles #71 “World Tour: House of M Part 3”
- Exiles #72 “World Tour: New Universe Part 1”
- Generation M #4 “[untitled]”
- New Warriors v4 #1 “Defiant”
- New Warriors v4 #2 “Defiant Part Two”
- New Warriors v4 #3 “Defiant Part Three”
- New Warriors v4 #4 “Defiant Part Four”
- New Warriors v4 #5 “Defiant Part Five”
- New Warriors v4 #6 “Defiant Part Six”
- New Warriors v4 #7 “Reunion Part One”
- New Warriors v4 #8 “Reunion Part Two”
- New Warriors v4 #9 “Thrashed Part One”
- New Warriors v4 #10 “Thrashed Part Two”
- New Warriors v4 #11 “Thrashed Part Three”
- New Warriors v4 #12 “Thrashed Part Four”
- New Warriors v4 #13 “Thrashed Conclusion”
- New Warriors v4 #14 “Invaded Part One” Secret Invasion
- New Warriors v4 #15 “Invaded Part Two” Secret Invasion
- New Warriors v4 #16 “Blood and Iron Part One”
- New Warriors v4 #17 “Blood and Iron Part Two”
- New Warriors v4 #18 “Blood and Iron Part Three”
- New Warriors v4 #19 “Blood and Iron Part Four”
- New Warriors v4 #20 “Blood and Iron Conclusion”
- Age of X: Universe #2 “Avengers Part 2”
- Vengeance #1 “[untitled]”
- Vengeance #2 “World on Fire”
- Vengeance #3 “Every Little Thing”
- Vengeance #4 “Drive All Night”
- Vengeance #5 “The Twelfth Hour”
- Vengeance #6 “Faith and Deception”
- X-Men: Blue #26 “[untitled]” Cry Havok Part 4
- X-Men: Blue #36 “[untitled]” Surviving the Experience Conclusion
- Domino Annual #1 “Domino & the Rejex”
- Uncanny X-Men v5 #9 “[untitled]” Disassembled Part 9
- Age of X-Man: Nextgen #2 “[untitled]”
- New Mutants v4 #3 “To the Grave”
- New Mutants v4 #4 “Fast and Furious”
- New Mutants v4 #6 “Not as Hoped”
- Women of Marvel v2 #1 “Give a Cat a Bone…”
- X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #42 “The Cryptolect”
- X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #43 “The Cryptolect Part 2”
- X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #59 “The Fall of the House of X”
Nevets Faulkner Presents: The New Warriors Continuity Conundrum 
Beak appears in Exiles #46, not #36. He also appears in Exiles #62 and Generation M #4.
Great, thank you! Fixed #46 and added #62 and Gen M #4.
That was fast! In that case, if you care, one of Beak’s kids is named Tito.
Beak has a total of six children, three named, and three unidentified. Tito has retained his mutation, but the others are all human after M-Day. The other named children are another son called Axel and a daughter named Kara.
Oh, and Beak wasn’t actually created by Frank Quitely. He was created by Grant Morrison and Ethan Van Sciver.
Huh — where were the other two kids named? I missed that…
At least one of the de-powered kids was named in Exiles #71
Not sure exactly where it was revealed initially, but it is in Angel Salvadore’s Official Marvel Handbook bio. Under the bibliography, it has these listed for “Significant Issues”
First kissed Beak (New X-Men #131, 2002); revealed pregnancy to Beak (New X-Men #138, 2003); children hatched (New X-Men #141, 2003); Beak became unhinged from time (Exiles #48, 2004); reality warped, lived as fashion model, possessed by Proteus, reunited with Beak, became human after “M-Day” (Exiles #69-71, 2005)
Not sure if it was in one of those issues or not, but they are pretty good at at least putting online corrections if there are any mistakes in the handbooks. I’m thinking they are correct.
This is why I’m glad the comments feature exists. Thanks guys!
Thanks for the pointer, James — Tito, Axel and Kara were all named in the same panel of Exiles #71.
(But, wait, how do we know that Tito was the one who retained his mutation?)
-Jeph!
Sigh. Note to self: read entire scene before commenting. Beak refers to the still-mutated child AS TITO on the VERY NEXT PAGE from the panel I was looking at two minutes ago.
Hey, Corey, how ’bout making the comments editable, so I can quit embarrassing myself?
Bah.
-Jeph!
But what fun would that be?
Unfortunately, I can’t change whether the comments can be editable or not. I’ll look into it, though. Maybe there’s something I didn’t see.
Corey, just a little extra for you, here’s the titles of each ssue (where applicable). I don’t have all of his New X-Men appearances, so I’ll have to start with New X-Men (volume 1, if we need to distinguish it from academy X that way…) #146
New X -Men #146 – “Planet X” part I of V
New X-Men #147 – “Planet X “part II of V
New X-Men #148 – “Planet X” Part III of V
New X-Men #149 – “Planet X” part IV of V
New X-Men #150 – “Planet X: Conclusion”
Exiles #46 – “Earn your wings” part I of III
Exiles #47 – “Earn your wings” part II of III
Exiles #48 – “Earn your wings” part III of III
Exiles #49 – “Mission Impossible”
Exiles #50 – “The big M” part I of II
Exiles #51 – “The big M part II of II
Exiles #52 – “Living Planet” part I of II
Exiles #53 – “Living Planet” part II of II
Exiles #54 – “Rube Goldberg”
Exiles #55 – “Bump in the night” part I of III
Exiles #56 – “Bump in the night” part II of III
Exiles #57 – “Bump in the night” part III of III
Exiles #58 – “Taking on Tanaraq”
Exiles #59 – “A tooth for a tooth”
Exiles #62 – Timebreakers” part I of IV
Exiles #63 – “Timebreakers” Part II of IV
Exiles #64 – “Timebreakers” part III of IV
Exiles #65 – “Timebreakers” part IV of IV
Exiles #66 – “Destrpy all monsters” part I of III
Exiles #67 – “Destroy all monsters” part II of III
Exiles #68 – “Destroy all monsters” part III of III
Exiles #69 – “World Tour: House of M” part I of III
Exiles #70 – “World tour: House of M” part II of III
Exiles #71 – “World Tour: House of M” part III of III
Exiles #72 – “World Tour: New Universe” part I of III
When Jeph says Axel and Kara were named in Exiles #71 he meant #72 I think (my mistake if not).
“Geration M” #4 was untitled, but hopefully that information will all proof useful!
Nope, I meant #71. THAT bit I checked — Beak isn’t in #72. His final Exiles appearance was the end of the “House of M” crossover, at which point he gets left behind on Earth-616.
-Jeph!
Full titles for Beak’s “New X-Men” appearances:
#117 – “Danger Rooms”
#119 – “Germ Free Generation, Two of Three”
#125 – “Losers”
#126 – “All Hell”
#131 – “Some Angels Falling”
#135 – “Teaching Children About Fractals”
#136 – “When X Is Not X”
#137 – “Riot At Xavier’s”
#138 – “The Prime of Miss Emma Frost”
#140 – “Murder at the Mansion”
#141 – “Whodunnit?”
#146 – “Planet X, part 1 of 5”
#147 – “Magneto Superior: Planet X part 2 of 5”
#148 – “Survivor Type: Planet X part 3 of 5”
#149 – “Phoenix in Darkness: Planet X part 4 of 5”
#150 – “Phoenix Invictus: Planet X, Conclusion”
-Jeph!