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sheliak

( Greater Love Hath No X-Man... )

Poll #21428

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Favorite Scenes (Battle)

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Steven Lang's villainous rants (of which he must be very proud)
1 (16.7%)

Nightcrawler vs. Beast
0 (0.0%)

Havok vs. Colossus
0 (0.0%)

"Jean" vs. Storm
3 (50.0%)

"Xavier" vs. Wolverine
3 (50.0%)

"Jean" vs. Wolverine
3 (50.0%)

Scott breaks out
1 (16.7%)

Last fight with Lang
0 (0.0%)

Something else, as I will explain in the comments
0 (0.0%)

Favorite Scene(s): Jean's Plan

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Corbeau explains the situation
0 (0.0%)

Jean makes her plan
1 (16.7%)

Jean and Scott
1 (16.7%)

Jean and Logan
1 (16.7%)

Jean and Ororo
4 (66.7%)

Jean in the shuttle
6 (100.0%)

Any other thoughts about this issue?

As a head's up, this is the last Uncanny X-Men issue I've got collected in a color hardcover, so later posts may be rather less image-heavy--I don't want to wreck my poor Essentials, and I don't think they'd scan well anyway.

Next Sunday: Retcon damage control. Alternately, a dance with the devil within.
Next Thursday: The X-Men return to Earth.

sheliak

( Deathstar, Rising! )

Poll #21388

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Favorite Scene(s)

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The News
1 (20.0%)

Colossus mourns his brother
0 (0.0%)

Liftoff!
1 (20.0%)

Poor doomed Lawyer Flaherty
1 (20.0%)

Ned Buckman out-sinistering Sebastian Shaw
0 (0.0%)

Storm vs. a Sentinel (again)
1 (20.0%)

The big fight (including the Cyclops+Nightcrawler tiff and Colossus's defense of Olga Korbut)
3 (60.0%)

Storm is reunited with the rest of the team
0 (0.0%)

The rescue of Banshee and Wolverine
0 (0.0%)

Scott, Jean, and Lang
0 (0.0%)

That cliffhanger!
1 (20.0%)

Something else.
0 (0.0%)

Any thoughts on this issue?

Next Sunday: Betrayal at the Hellfire Club!
Next Thursday: X-Man vs. X-Man... sort of.

sheliak

This issue opens with the X-Men celebrating Christmas! They’ve gone out in a group to the city, and are about to split up, largely along romantic lines: Jean and Scott together, Sean with Moira, and Piotr and Kurt off with some ladies they just met. (Or in Kurt’s case, “just met”. But we’ll get into that later.)

Wolverine is not onboard with the festive spirit of the day. Before going off to be grumpy alone, he responds to Jean's polite inquiry about his plans with, “What about me, Miss Grey--? I got no use for Christmas.” That line amuses me way more than it has a right to.

There’s a new page added in Classic, in which Amanda Sefton’s thought bubbles reveal that she knows way more about Kurt than he does about her, and Piotr thinks wistfully of Anya Marakova. Apparently, this issue marks the point when Dave Cockrum was no longer able to draw the add-ons; instead, they’re done by James Fry. (I didn't end up scanning anything from his pages, but still wanted to mention it.)

( Merry Christmas, X-Men--The Sentinels Have Returned! )

Poll #21328

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Should Professor X be able to mind-blast Sentinels?

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No, they don't have brains for him to blast!
3 (37.5%)

Yes. Sentinels are jerks and have it coming to them, whether or not it particularly makes sense.
0 (0.0%)

How do we know that they don't have brains? They were built by comic book scientists, who are not logical beings.
5 (62.5%)

In your understanding of (Claremont-era) canon, how does Cerebro work?

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Only telepaths can use it.
3 (37.5%)

Other psychics can use it.
2 (25.0%)

Any mutant can use it.
0 (0.0%)

Anyone can use it.
0 (0.0%)

It's inconsistent.
3 (37.5%)

I have a different theory and will explain it below.
0 (0.0%)

Did Steven Lang build his sentinels to be sexist jerks?

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Yes. He built them in his own image.
6 (75.0%)

No. They're still basically Silver Age robots, and would have been that way anyway.
2 (25.0%)

Favorite moment this issue?

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Stan and Jack disapproving of this kissing nonsense.
4 (50.0%)

Scott and Jean's short-lived date.
2 (25.0%)

Professor X and Peter Corbeau's equally short-lived fishing trip.
0 (0.0%)

Ororo wipes the floor (well, sky) with a Sentinel.
7 (87.5%)

Professor X vs. Sentinels that swim.
1 (12.5%)

Lang's short-lived gloating.
0 (0.0%)

Logan sticking up for Jean.
2 (25.0%)

Something else, which I will detail in the comments.
0 (0.0%)

Next Sunday: Jean was really looking forward to that date, damnit.
Next Thursday: Space adventures! Although alas, not the fun kind.

sheliak

Welcome to a very special point in X-Men history: the birth of the Angry Claremontian Narrator!

(But first, a correction re: last Uncanny issue—Len Wein was still plotting that one, which I missed the first time through. And this issue, Bill Mantlo is credited with a "plotting assist". After that, Claremont is sole plotter. I think.)

Anyway, back to the story...

( Night of the Demon! )

Poll #21185

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This is the only time anyone talks back to the narrator. What’s up with that?

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Cyclops warned the others not to respond to malevolent narration, lest more demons be unleashed.
3 (33.3%)

No one else can actually hear the narrator, and after this Cyclops is doubly careful not to be provoked.
5 (55.6%)

The narrator felt bad about helping to unleash demons, and decided not to push mutants so far in the future.
1 (11.1%)

Something else, as I will explain in the comments.
0 (0.0%)

What's up with the demonic cairn?

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Professor X knew it existed, but not its true nature. Possibly the first X-Men wrote reports on it.
2 (22.2%)

... ditto, but he knew what it was and just never got around to fencing it off.
1 (11.1%)

It's invisible unless broken.
1 (11.1%)

Demonic cairns are just really common in this universe, so no one really gave it a second thought.
5 (55.6%)

I have a different theory, which I will explain in the comments.
0 (0.0%)

Any thoughts on Steven Lang, Michael Rossi, or Kierrok the Damned?

And why do you think Professor X and Moira MacTaggert decided to introduce her as the X-Men's "housekeeper?"

This Sunday: Wolverine and Nightcrawler bond in "The Big Dare".

Next Thursday: "Erik the Red" steals Cyclops's old alter ego and brainwashes Havok and Polaris into attacking the X-Men.

Current Mood: determined
Current Location: The X-Mansion

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