X-Men 161: Gold Rush 'N' Attack

WHAT THE NAZIS TAUGHT US THIS ISSUE:

XAVIER FOUGHT OFF THE DEADLY BROOD ALIEN GROWING IN HIS BODY WITH HIS MIND. GREAT JOB CHUCKY.

WHISLT FIGHTING, XAVIER HALLUCINATED BACK TO A TIME IN THE PAST WHEN HE FIRST MET MAGNETO AND THE FOUGHT OFF EVIL NAZIS (AS IF THERE ANY OTHER KIND).

THIS REALLY HAPPENED, THOUGH XAVIER WAS ONLY REMEMBERING IT IN HIS MIND!

THE EVIL NAZIS OF THE PAST ARE CALLED HYDRA, WHICH STILL EXIST IN THE MARVEL UNI TODAY. HEY COOL STORY, LOSER.

NAZIS, GOLD, JEWISH AND BALD MUTANTS, THERES A JOKE IN THERE SOMEWHERE BUT I'M FEELING REALLY LAZY TODAY.

HOWEVER STORM AND CYCLOPS DO SHARE A VERY TENDER MOMENT PAGE 4

Over-arching plotwise, the important events in this issue happen on the last two pages, where Xavier comes out of his evil alien induced coma and announces he is no longer an infected host to the killer bug aliens the Brood. It was the power of his love for his bird alien empress girlfriend that helped him pull through, you see. The more important events continuity wise, critically for the character development of Magento, is the flashback Charles has that reveals Magneto as a Holocaust survivor. This allows him to escape the one dimensional silver age trappings of 'evil villain bent on world domination just for the smell of it' and recasts him as a tragic, misguided vigilante, hoping to secure peace and stability for mutant-kind that was never afforded to his other people, the Jews.

Or something like that, I'm yawning just typing this up. Theres a lot more shit in the flashback too, with Nazis all over the place, and another old GF of Xavier's and some evil Nazi named Baron von Strucker (Strucker? I hardly evink know her) but whatever, I don't feel like getting into all of it. This issue is kind of a big deal though, cause without it, the billion dollar X-Men movies with Magento as a bad guy would be a whole lot different.

And then at the very end, the Brood and Deathbirdbitch show up again and LOOKS LIKE WE'RE HEADED BACK TO FUCKING SPACE! (say, is that the longest I've ever gone without cursing in one of these things before? I it just may fuckin be!)

Also Cockrum is back for his last continuous run on the title. So of course there is also a scene where everyone gets funky new costumes. And Storm doesn't look black and Kitty doesn't look Jewish.

SO I'LL SEE Y'ALL BITCHES UP IN SPACE REAL FUCKIN SOON.