Thoughts

I am so digging Romita Jr’s art in this readthrough – and, I mean, you open this issue and get confronted by this brilliant panel. Absolutely textbook example on how to get a reader excited by the comic.

And yet again Claremont’s writing reminds me – in the best possible way – of modern TV writing. There’s an incredibly well-written sequence of pages as the X-men, just trying to mind their own business at the mansion, learn one-by-one that the Juggernaut is back. It gives all the characters a beautiful few panels of character. Illustrated like fine direction. You could put this sequence in a modern TV show and it would not look out of place at all.

We also get a nice little cutaway developing Storm’s return to Africa. Again – in the world of modern comics this would all be its own spin-off. Having it be its own plot in the main comic is another link to modern TV dramas like Game of Thrones.

Fun Panel

Nevermind a team shot – here’s Rogue/Nightcrawler/Colossus combined. Its a shame that they don’t do this more often with her powerset.

Any Googling

I’ve mentioned a few times the way that the X-universe, over the course of several titles, is integrating Rachel. What’s interesting is that parallel to that they are also bringing Nimrod into the tale.

They do seem to be running in parallel, deliberately, but I couldn’t recall them ever really leading to a conclusion. A google search suggests they don’t. It’s interesting whether there were plans – a Rachel antagonist to be central to her storyline that never really materialised.

The google search also highlighted that the character has quite a long history and is still important to the comic. Which is interesting because I don’t think its that interesting a character. Fantastic design, though