What we learn this issue besides that Roger Murtaugh:South Africa::X-Men:Genosha
COULDN'T THINK OF MUCH TO DO WITH THIS AWESOME SILVESTRI/GREEN COVER SO I JUST WENT WITH THE OLD STAND-BY OF DRAWING A BUNCH OF DICKS ON IT. BIG, VIENY, ROCK DICKS. ITS BECAUSE I AM SO CREATIVE, YOU SEE.
ACTUALLY I REALLY ONLY LIKE THAT ONE SCENE OF THAT MOVIE. ***SPOILER ALERT***
EVERYONE KNOWS WOLVERINE GIVES A HORRENDOUSLY UNSMOOTH BEEJ.
The end to the 4 part Genosha saga is a bit of a let down. Wolverine doesn't bring the whole flamin country down. Havok blows up that weird pyramid lookin skyscraper (the Citadel), but that's about it. The Genegineer's weiner kid and his mutant lover escape with the X-Men after Wolverine and Rogue get their powers back, but thats about it. Kind of a sitcom reset type of ending.
But a few bigger movements are brewing in the bowels of the subplot. For one, Havok and Madeylne Pyror continue to get get scandalously close. I mean, Madelyne's husband did absquatulate with their baby an all, but come on dude, that's your sister in law, who do you think you are, Martin Broduer or some kind of philanderer (future Hall of Famer New Jersey Devil goalie Marty Brodeur banged his wife's brother's wife, btw, so there's kind of a connection there).
It's also made apparent that Madelyne Pyror has been driven nuts by all the shit going on and that the Genoshans' mental probing has finally sent her over the edge. That was her killing the room full of raycess Genoshan scientists last issue - also by the way - I got it wrong in the last post. Additionally, Madelyne is not really what she seems, meaning she is probably a fucking clone grown in a test tube by the villain Mr Sinister or some shit. Actually, it always SEEMED like she was a clone of Jean Grey, but that was supposed to be a red herring and she was just another plain old hot red head chick that Scott Summer's stuck it in. But now it will be revealed (SPOILER ALERT) that she was a Jean Grey clone all along.
The lingering question remains whether or not Claremont always wanted Pyror to be some figurative stand in for Jean Grey or if it really was only an editorially mandated ret-con that explicitly confirmed Pyror to be what many suspected all along. It's fucking comics and you aren't going to see shit like this in any other medium. SO LOVE IT OR LEAVE BABY.
Also Claremont name checks the shitty song Gone to America by the shitty band Steeleye Span, after whose lead singer is Madelyne Pryor named. Gay.
Anyway, that's the last we'll see of Genosha for a while. It was a solid arc, definitely ambitious. Excellent art, even if it see-sawed back and forth between two different pencillers. It also marks the end of the X-Men in Australia status quo (or the Oz-Men as so many internet wags are fond of calling it). The team doesn't go back to the X-Mansion officially for like 40 more issues (and probably not coincidentally with the reintroduction of Genosha), but because of Madelyne's impending transformation, the 8 team members in the secret hideout with Madelyne the computer chick in Central Command directing the X-Men to incidents across the globe which they travel to with the help of the naked aboriginal teleporter Gateway is over. Thanks to the fucking X-Factor comic book. But thats a whole nother story that I'd have to do more research on to get the whole spiel.
A couple few one shots, the Brood arc and the Genosha storyline. That's it. Next issue is the start of the Inferno crossover with the rest of the X-titles and then it gets really fucking weird until superstar artist Jim Lee comes along, sales skyrocket and Claremont quits. Still, thats like 4 or 5 years away yet. Great, so much more fun left for us!
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