Thoughts

Primarily concerned with setting up a Big Event Issue 150, the story here is secondary. What this issue is all about is Magneto.

We get a potted history of his status as the team’s first and greatest foe. We get the X-men returning to Antarctica to confirm that the villain is very much alive and plotting something. And we get reminded that Cyclops is currently the “guest” of Magneto on his Atlantic Cthuloid Atlantean Castle Complex.

All of this conveniently frees up space in the next issue to not go over all this old ground and get straight to that issue’s story. Job Done.

Fun Panel

Kitty’s teenage exuberance shines through in this issue. From her outrageous teen skating costume, to her reckless stowaway routine and finally her insecure internal monologue as she tries to come good.

That Don’t Make A Lick of Sense

Quite how Magneto rescued Garokk when he tumbled to his doom is not quite clear. Those previous issues seemed to make it pretty clear he’d fled long before the X-men’s Savage Land adventure.

If we squint a bit at the plot, I guess you could suggest he was sneakily hiding nearby all the time. But even that doesn’t quite explain why Garokk- an ancient God with his ruthless utopian ideals to rule the Savage Land – seems to have accepted becoming Magneto’s shuffling servant Igor