X-Men 193: Core Hunt 2!

What we learn this issue besides that there's been 100 issues of all nude, all fucking x-mans.

REMEMBER THAT GUY THUNDERBIRD WHO WE KILLED IN THE LIKE THE 3RD ISSUE OF CLAREMONT'S RUN? WELL IT TURNS OUT HE HAS A BROTHER. WHO LOOKS JUST LIKE HIS BROTHER. WHO HAS THE EXACT SAME POWERS AS HIS BROTHER. AND WHO WOULD PREFER IF YOU CALLED HIM THUNDERBIRD. ITS JUST LIKE THAT SCENE FROM BEERFEST.

"HOKAHEY!" CHECK OUT THIS FUCKIN GUY.

XAVIER: LEATHER DADDY.
SOMEONE KILLED ANNALEE'S KIDS. WAIT, ANAL LEE? THAT'S HER NAME?

STORM HAS FUCKED OFF TO AFRICA.

THAT ATTACK ON XAVIER WAS JUST AN EXCUSE TO WEAKEN HIM SO HE DOESN'T JUST END THE BATTLE BEFORE THE DOUBLE SIZE ISSUE PAGE COUNT.

KITTY PRYDE'S, ER, I MEAN SHADOWCAT'S NEW COSTUME IS A BIG GARBAGE BAG AND A MASK. FUCKING TERRIBLE.
NORAD KEEP AN ARMY OF ROWBITS ON CALL JUST FOR THESE EXACT SITUATIONS. SECBOTS THEY CALL THEM. WHAT THE FUCK FOR I HAVE NO IDEA.

THIS IS WHY WOLVERINE OWNS.
WHATS A BETTER PICK UP LINE? I WALKED ON THE MOON; OR I WAS ON THE RAIDING PARTY THAT KILLED OSAMA BIN LADEN?
I don't want to say Claremont gets a bad wrap for having no sense of humor, because honestly his sense of humor is pretty crappy. But he starts the issue with a nice bit about Banshee being all super happy about his life. "So of course, he gets nailed." Hah, made me laugh anyway.

It's also kind of annoying that the Morlocks are back, and their completely unbelievable underground labyrinth of tunnels that "runs the length of Manhattan, with branch lines out to Jersey, Staten Island, Long Island and upstate." Oh come on.

Claremont makes the rest of the issue a tribute to the first mission he wrote, were Thunderbird got killed outside of the no so secret military base of NORAD. Claremont also brings in a whole load of new characters he's created since then. Most of them usually occupy the X-Nard's junior title, the Noo Mootants. So I won't bother describing them. All that's important is Thunderbird's brother is pissed and wants revenge. So there's a big ass fight and eventually the X-Mans are the winnars and the bad guys here are misguided young mutants so alls well that ends well.

More interesting than the typical comic book beat em up is the sinister undercurrent of anti-mutant hatred that Claremont is now bringing to the forefront. Mutants will now serve as an allegory for prejudged groups of all kinds. This theme had always been simmering in background but this is a real turning point, starting with Xavier getting has bloodied ass handed to him last issue, where the X-Men inhabit a more mature world and tackle problems with real gravitas.

I mean the main villain in the original Warhunt issue was called Count Nefaria and he tried to hold the world hostage for ransom for chrissakes. Now the X-Men have to worry about the Feedle Gubmint and RAYCESS ASSHOLES. Quite a difference.

But just to show that this whole comic book isn't turning into FRONTLINE the comic book, next issue is a fight against the Juggernaut and Nimrod. So yeah, not THAT mature anyway.