X-Men 144: Even in Death... they have melodramatic comic titles

WHAT WE LEARNED THIS ISSUE:

THE WORST NAMED COMIC CHARACTER IN HISTORY, MAN-THING GUEST STARS.

FUCK LAND! CYCLOPS IS ON A BOAT MOTHERFUCKER! WITH SOME LAME ASS DAGO NAMED PAOLO!

AW, IS KITTY PRYDE GONNA CRY? IS SHE? IS BABY GONNA CRY? DOES BABY NEED HER FUCKIN BOTTLE YOU FUCKIN BABY? AW, FUCKIN BABY IS FUCKIN CRYING LIKE A FUCKING BABY X-BABY KITTY FUCKIN BABY PRYDE

recap thing: A lot of the shit that goes on in Claremont's X-Men is definitely kids stuff, like the fact that everyone is constantly wearing brightly colored tights. But let it not be said that Claremont doesn't add plenty for the mature audience as well. Here is Claremont describing some sad old mustachioed dude name Jock Forrester who we're meeting for the first time and is Lee Forrester's dad, the new sailing buddy and potential new boning buddy of Cyclops:

"Diagnosis: Cancer - inoperable, incurable. Prognosis: Ever-increasing enfeeblement off physical and mental faculties, ever-increasing pain, death within a year."

Wow, nice to know it can always get worse. Oh, and then Jock picks up a revolver and blows his fuckin brains out. Hey, who ordered the wall pizza?

That little prelude was just to set up an issue where Man-Thing, a giant swamp monster who feels other's emotions and tries to help them, and D'Spayre, an orthographically challenged evil spirit that feeds off human fear, fight over the immortal soul of Scott Summers, who's having a tough time getting over his girl friend Jean Grey's recent death. Build a bridge and get over it you fucking crybaby!

It's mostly an opportunity to rehash Cyclops' origin and the Dark Phoenix Saga again, and in the end, Cyclops realizes he will always feel bad about Jean but he is going to fucking get over it, so fuck you D'Spayre, you prick! Then Man-Thing throws D'Spayre into a burning house or something.

That's basically it. Scott hanging out with his new pal, sailing babe Lee Forrester and getting hassled by these 2 stupid characters. And back at the X-Pad, the remaining X-Dudes repair the Danger Room, that Kitty ruined while fighting the demon last issue. Then Wolverine and Nightcrawler make really terrible not funny jokes at Kitty's expense and make her a sad panda for no reason whatsoever except to give Colossus an excuse to comfort her and continue this illicit pedophilic wet dream of Claremont's.

And thats the end of Man-Thing for the X-Men, who also starred in a comic called Giant-Size Man-Thing. Afterwards he also starred in a book called GREAT BIG PENISES. It's all true, I swear (except only the first part).

Also the art, even though it's not Bryne, is still pretty good. And I enjoyed this issue. It was kind off silly but it also had a dude shotting himself in the head, so it gets a passing grade from me!