in the "g.i. joe special missions: antarctica" one-shot, a joe team broke up an illegal oil drilling operation that was run by tomax, who was able to escape. during the story, xamot was strangely absent. in one scene tomax talked to his brother as if he were present, despite the scene showing an empty chair. the whereabouts of xamot were revealed in another story in the same issue, when g.i. joe raided a cobra medical facility and found xamot, in a coma and unresponsive (presumably from the red shadows attack). xamot is then held in g.i. joe custody, still in a coma.