After serving his time and recuperating, Mellencamp would rejoin the Acolytes and would find a new home on Genosha, in the wake of Magneto taking over the island as a dictator, making it a new safe haven for mutants. He died in the Wild Sentinels' attack on Genosha but was resurrected by Eli Bard, using the Transmode Virus. On Utopia, he battled Loa, who managed to defeat him.