WHAT WE LEARNED IN THIS ISSUE:
YOU'D THINK WE'D LEARN THAT THE X-MEN PURSUE SOMEONE OR SOMETHING IN THIS ISSUE, SINCE IT IS THE FUCKING ISSUE'S TITLE, AFTER ALL, BUT NO, THE X-MEN PRETTY MUCH JUST SIT ON THEIR ASS AND LET SHIT HAPPEN TO THEM THE WHOLE TIME.
THE STARJAMMERS BEAM THE X-MEN ONTO THEIR SHIP BECAUSE THEY HAVE A MAGICAL ROBOTIC DEUS EX MACHINA THAT CAN HEAL COLOSSUS (SO HE WASN'T REALLY GOING TO DIE? OH YOU HAD ME GOING THERE FOR A MINUTE, YOU CLIFFFHANGER YOU!)
THEN THE STARJAMMERS GET SWALLOWED BY THE BROOD/DEATHBIRD GIANT WHALEFISH SPACESHIP, SPECIFICALLY SO THEY CAN RESCUE XAVIER AND LILANDRA AND ESCAPE AND NO OTHER APPARENT REASON.
THE BROOD ARE FUCKING MORONS FOR NOT BLOWING UP THE GOD DAMN STARJAMMER SHIP WHEN THEY HAD A CHANCE, BUT IT'S JUST A FUCKING COMIC BOOK SO MAYBE I SHOULDN'T BE SO HARD ON THEM.
More standard space opera fare. A decent amount of action but nothing too significant happens. Everything is set up for next issue, where the X-Men will have to defeat the Brood and Deathbird in six hours or the evil Shi'ar rebel faction will kill the whole fucking Earth for some stupid reason or another (I skimmed this issue as well).
Besides a nifty double page spread of the living alien fish rocket ship that swallows the Starjammer, not a whole lot of awesomeness in this issue. Some more Cosair/Scott Summers origin crap and Xavier/Lilandra schmaltzy romance in the face of peril, but mostly ho-hum.
Only one more issue of this mini-space arc and then things start getting more interesting.
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