Thoughts

The epic journey the New X-men have been on since Issue 113 takes another twist when their plane returning to the US is hijacked by the Canadian government. They’ve tried once to recover Wolverine, and now they’re trying again. And this time they’ve brought a team.

The best teams immediately awaken your curiosity. You want to know how they interact, as characters and with their powers. The new X-men, bursting out the cover of Giant Size have that quality. So do Alpha Flight.

But this issue really teases that curiousity. The team are hinted at. We see their human alter-egos, and then glimpses of their powers. It’s a brilliant way of introducing them, wanting to see the team in all their glory becomes its own cliffhanger.

Not that its the only great thing about the issue. The thriller aspect of the kidnap is brilliantly executed, the plane hijack followed by an ambush at the airport. This is the comic at its most cinematic.

Fun Panel

This is how you take out a Wolverine!

That Don’t Make A Lick of Sense

Ok this is no fault of the comic, and everything to do with me being a complete nerd. As someone who had the TSR Marvel Superhero roleplaying game it outlined the upper strengths of all the powerhouse characters. And according to those rules, this act would have been impossible for Sasquatch. He’s not that strong according to TSR. This angers my nerd gene.

Mutant Mailbag Mayhem

This is the first time the letters page is witness to these strange cryptic details. What these were was one of the first things i looked up on my first day with the brand new-fangled internet.

Also a good way to track the growing success of the comic.