X-Men 208: Retro Douche'n

What we learned this issue besides that Wolverine failed his ethics exam.

WHELP, LOOKS LIKE WOLVERINE IS TOTALLY FINE ABOUT STABBING PHOENIX' GUTS OUT. HE REALLY DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT.

THEN CHECK OUT WHAT HE DOES TO POOR KITTY PRYDE.

G'HEAD, AKS WOLVERINE IF HE GIVE A MUTHAFUCK, CUZ HE DON'T.

SELENE IS ONE HOT SUPER VILLAIN. UNTIL SHE RUNS LOW ON LIFE ENERGY. DRAIN THOSE SOULS BITCH YOU IS LOOKIN BEAT UP AND THEN SOME.
WELL LA DI DA, THE FUCKING HELLFIRE CLUB HAS MOVED ON UP TO THE EAST SIDE. THEY EVEN HAVE FIGHTS OUTSIDE THE GUGGENHEIM. WELL AINT YOU THINK YO SHIT IS SMELLIN ROSEY NOW ISNT YOU?
RACHEL WHINES, STORM PREVARICATES, WOLVERINE OWNS AND KITTY PRYDE MOPES.

THEN THEY GO TOE TO TOE, BLOW FOR BLOW, HO FOR HO WITH THE FUGGIN HELLFIRE CLUB, THOSE STUCK UP, NO GOOD, GOOD FOR NOTHING, MARK ASS PLUTOCRATS.

Turns out Wolverine didn't actually kill Rachel Summers, in case you didn't see that coming. But he does fuck her shit up pretty bad. The other X-Masturbaters chase after her with some of the stupid fucking Morlock (don't worry, they are gonna get theirs most swiftly, no doubt), but the Hellfire Club are after them too. There's a nifty fight with Selene, Sebastian Shaw, Harry Leland, some schmuck named Von Rohm or something, and some Hellfire Club flunkies vs the X-Bags, Callisto and Caliban (who sucks).

The Hellfiremen have a weird mix of powers so Claremont does a decent job keeping the fight interesting. And the X-Wads basically get their butts kicked. It's entertaining though.

And despite the stupidity of Wolverine, who 'murders' Phoenix so she won't murder Selene, who then escapes and murders two innocent people (OK a mugger and an innocent jogger), I dug some of the verbose moralizations going on. I guess Wolvo was worried Phoenix was going to turn into Dark Phoenix, like Jean Grey, but then why didn't Wolverine get worried when Phoenix powered up to take on the fuckin Beyonder a few issues ago?

I don't know, fuck it. Claremont did a decent enough job with all the angsty dialog, and he's pushing the boundaries with some of the sequential art bits. All avant gardey and shit.

SO ANY WAY, I LIKED THIS ISSUE.

THEN THAT GAYWAD NIMROD SHOWS UP IN THE LAST PANEL. NIMROD IS CLEARLY A GAY ROBOT AND HE FUCKING HATES MUTANTS. HEY, JUDGE NOT ET CETERA ET CETRA FRUITY.
Nexth isthue is going to be abstholutely fabulousth!