What we learned this issue besides that Scalphunter has some killer boots, man.
WOLVERINE FIGHTING SABERTOOTH ON THE COVER = $ALE$ BITCHES!
ALSO THIS COVER HAS MANY SIMILARITIES TO THE LAST COVER. BUT WHO GIVES A SHIT. WHY DONT YOU BLOG ABOUT IT IF ITS SUCH A BIG GOD DAMN DEAL, DORK.
JUST LIKE THE COVER. AGAIN. IM SENSING SOME FUCKIN THEMES HERE.
Another quality issue full of dope art and rad ass fighting and angst and some mystical nonsense in the desert with some Native Americans. OK so I still don't get the whole Native American vision quest, but this time Storm and creepy old balls having possessed former mentor of Forge, Naze, fight some insane shapeshifting giant snakes with the heads of owls and the arms of bears. It's pretty cool, despite making no god damn sense whatsoever.
Except for the ma snake bear owl injun fight (the explanation given is that the mystical world is all fucked up because of Forge and Dr Strange and Dormammu or something, and so evil spirits like the "Eye Killers" are infiltrating the corporal world), the whole issue is the Marauders and the X-men finishing their fight in San Francisco. The mutant friendly cop Lt. Morrel from 30 issues ago even shows up. As do the Japanese kids who made a cameo 40 issues ago after Secret Wars ended and the X-Men got randomly dumped out in Japan. Now those exact same kids are in San Franciso on vacation. Yes the Marvel Universe is a small, small world (and to his credit, Claremont has Rogue make a meta joke to that same effect).
Besides all sorts of slam bang super hero action (that fucks up a good bit of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge just for good measure), the main tension in this issue is between Havoc and Polaris, two reunited lovers at odds against each other because Lorna Dane is possessed by the evil spirit, Malice (or mutant, I'm not actually quite sure what the fuck Malice is). Malice is an evil bitch and cruelly taunts Havoc, who still sports a hulking boner for Polaris, and Malice knows this, flying right above him but out of reach singing, "You will never get theese, you will never get theese! A la la la la-la!"
Claremont impresses with his ingenuity by finding new and interesting ways the various Mutant powers interact in a fight. Though it is kind of cheat having Deus Ex Longshot around to just say, "Oh look, my mutant power, which is LUCK, found some improbable way of saving the day. Good for us."
Also dig the way Claremont plugs his buddy George R.R. Martin's superhero anthology, Wild Cards. This was before A Song of Ice and Fire ever started and way before HBO's mega bad ass adaption Game of Trombones. Haha, the passage of time.
GREAT, MAYBE NEXT WRITE UP WILL JUST BE ALL CURSING AND NONSENSE AND TAKE WAY LESS TIME.
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