What we learn this issue besides that Marc Silvestri realized too late that he had drawn Wolverine's left hand in a position that would obscure his face if he had his claws extended and so he had to leave them retracted. Fascinating, I know, right?
HOLY SHIT IT'S BEEN SO LONG THAT I FORGOT THAT I ALREADY "PREPARED" A COVER FOR THIS ISSUE. HERE IS THE ONE FROM 2011.
AND HERE'S WHAT I DID IN THE NEW MAYAN WILLENIUM.
EERILY SIMILAR, NO?
WE FINALLY SEE THAT NASTY TOOTHED FUCKFACE MR. SINISTER. NICE NAME, BRO.
HEY MAYBE THEY ARE BOTH GAY. THAT WOULD BE COOL WITH ME, MAN.
Man it has been a really long time. But back in the day I was a student with free time and few responsibilities (that I cared much about). Now I am a busy working man with more responsibilities that I still care little for but fulfill for fear of personal insolvency. But it's also the weekend and I woke up before noon and pumped a bitchload of caffeine into my system so now I'm ready to do this again. So let's fucking do this then!
This is a pretty decent issue, and I am a big of this era of Marc Silvestri's frenetic cartooning. He is a skilled artist of the highest caliber. I saw Silvestri was penciling some Marvel comics again recently but it looks like he's spending way too much time on his drawing and over-delineating everything. Chill out on the cross hatching and get back to the quick and dirty sloppy style that served you so well during your glory days on the X-Men Mr. Silvestri!
Fucking christ that was the most fanboyish bullshit I've ever said in my life! Fuck!
Anyway, We finally see Mr. Gary Sineseter and he looks as ridiculous as his name implies. I believe the reason for this was that Claremont's long term plan for the character was to reveal that his secret identity was that of a troubled youth who gained incredible powers at an early age and was stuck in a state of arrested development. Also he was from the same orphanage of Scott Summers and developed an unhealthy infatuation (homo-crush?) and now goes around in his over the top 'bad guy' persona to fuck with the X-Men all in an attempt to get attention from Cyclops.
Over course Claremont never got around to all that and quit the book before this could be revealed. Subsequent writers inevitably fucked that all up and Mr. Sinister is, as a result, a pretty flawed character.
WHATEVER.
His first action as a bad guy here is to check Sabretooth before he wrecks Sabretooth, establishing his credentials as a seriously superpowered villain. Because if Sabretooth can go to toe to tow with Wolverine, and Mr. Sinister and blithely ruin Sabretooth's shit without breaking a sweat, well then by the transitive property, blah blah blah.
So we learn a bit about Mr. Sinister and the Marauders. Not too much, mostly that they want to kill Madelyne Pryor, who is now an embarrassing loose end after editors demanded Cyclops dump her and their baby to rejoin the old original X-Men in the new comic book, X-Factor.
Storm continues her fairly racist Native American vision quest with the mystical and secretly evil Naze, who also creepily hits on her like some old pedo. Also Dazzler and Rogue snipe at each other like a couple of knitting circle yentas.
Yes there is dysentery amongst the ranks. But they all pull their shit together to stop the Marauders from murdering Pryor. But the battle is still raging at the end of the issue, when the possessed former X-Man Lorna Dane (for serious that is her name) aka Polaris, aka female Magneto, shows up for the first time in a bitchload of issues this time as a villain.
The fight that takes up most of the issue is pretty bad ass and is classic Claremont (rife with Clarmontisms, like calling Dazzler, 'Lightengale', whatever the fuck that means), and there was some interesting things I was going to point out, but I've written enough as it is. And I think I want to go guzzle some more November Juliet (thanks Generation Kill!) and maybe squeeze in another issue. So really its a win win. Fuck yeah we did it.
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