YEP - MORE BELCH HUMOR. BECAUSE COMIC BOOKS CHARACTERS DO A LOT OF SCREAMING AND TURNING THOSE INTO BELCHES WILL NEVER NOT BE FUNNY TO ME.
AND YES, THAT IS FARVA/GILL/LANDFILL. GOOD CATCH.
WELL WELL WELL, LOOK WHO DECIDED TO GRACE US WITH THEIR FUCKING PRESENCE.
OK LET'S GET WITH THE FIGHTING ALREADY.
THIS MAGISTRATE IS READY TO START PEGGING.
HERE'S A GREAT SEQUENCE. IT'S ALSO THE FIRST TIME PSYLOCKE USES THE WORDS "FOCUSED TOTALITY OF MY TELEPATHIC POWERS", WHICH WILL BECOME SHORTHAND FOR THE TOTALITY OF CLAREMONT'S TURGID EXPOSITORY DIALOG. MOST PEOPLE APPRECIATE IT FOR THE ENDEARING CAMP THAT IS. AND THOSE WHO FLAUNT IT AS SUPPOSED EVIDENCE OF HACKERY ARE MIRTHLESS BORES WITH STICKS, NAY LOGS, DEEPLY SUBSUMED INSIDE THEIR BUTTOCKS.
VERY MUCH ENJOY THE REACTION OF JUBILEE, BOOM BOOM AND RICTOR. ALSO THE PSYCHIC PLASMA, OR WHATEVER, LEAKING OUT OF THE MAGISTRATE'S EYES (HER NAME IS TAM, FYI).
WHAT'S ALMOST AS INCREDIBLE AS JIM LEE'S ACTION SCENES IS HOW HE HANDLES THE TALKING HEADS PORTIONS. CHANGING ANGLES AND DISTANCE. MIXING IT UP WHILE KEEPING A NATURAL PANEL FLOW. KEEPING THE VISUALS INTERESTING DURING OF CLAREMONT EXPOSITION. POETICAL, MELLIFLUOUS EXPOSITION, BUT THE WORDS TAKE UP A LOT OF SPACE NONETHELESS.
ANYWAY, HIM LEE IS FUCKING GOOD.
THERE ARE SOME WORD BUBBLES IN THE WAY, BUT THERE IS ONE OF THE FIRST TIMES WE GET A NICE CLEAN SHOT OF CAMERON HODGE'S ENTIRE FUCKED UP ROBOT SLUG MONSTER BODY. KIND OF A CROSS BETWEEN AN ALIEN QUEEN, A SKEKSIS, AND ROBOCOP. IT'S AWESOME. ALL HAIL JIM LEE.
I kind of wish the X-Men issues came at the end of the crossover cycle, as opposed to leading it off. The drop in quality from Claremont and Lee to Louise Simonson and Rob Liefeld and Jon Bogdanove is quite steep, and it would be better for the story if Claremont was able to clean up the messes rather than lead things off and then have to watch them fall apart. What's more, Liefield couldn't keep up with the schedule and the concluding chapter is done by a fill in artist, and it's truly wretched.
But, whatevs. Here we are in the middle, with Wolverine, Psycloke and Jubilee joining the fun. It's never made explicit but I assume they heard about all the shit going down in Genosha on the news (the comics are littered with scenes of mainstream network TV anchors reporting on the situation) and just made their way over from Madripoor.
They rescue Rictor and Boom Boom, two of the New Mutants who escaped but have had their powers wiped out by the Genoshan bad guy, Wipeout. Jubilee tries is dispatched, over her valley girl protestations, to shepard the youngsters to safety while Psylocke and Wolverine head deeper into Hammer Bay (capital of Genosha, natch) to rescue Storm and Wolfsbahne.
They kill some dudes, find and subdue brainwashed Havok (with another superfluous mention of Psyclocke's psychic knife, and it be the focused totality of her telepathic powers), but are then caught and majorly boned by Cameron Hodge. That guy is a real butt cake.
Then in Part 5, Wolfsbahne is turned into a mutate, a brainless slave of the Genoshan Government, and half of the remaining good guys are also captured. Then in Part 6, Leonard. Haha, no just a little Cosby humor. In Part 6 just about everyone else gets captured and Jena Grey makes out with Wolverine. How scandalous.
Part 7 is next, after which the crossover is concluded by two very shitty issues. Shittier even than part 5 & 6, which are both quite shitty.
Yes, X-Men without Claremont will often be shit, this is a lesson we've all learned by now.
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