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First, a training session. Really, Romita’s art could have carried this sequence, but Chris Claremont really liked to write. A lot.
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Then it’s time for a Brotherhood battle.
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Amanda Sefton’s magic powers are progressing. And there’s this:
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One of my all-time favorite John Romita panels. Also, an example of unnecessary dialog–comics in the 1980s were riddled through with it. I mean, is it really necessary for Kurt to say “Blob!”? But at least he doesn’t call him “fat Blob.”
Wolverine gets the best of Blob.
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Wolverine finishes the Blob fight with a death threat.
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But Blob gets the last laugh.
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Then there’s this one:
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Great issue for Nightcrawler beating up evil mutants. And Rogue starts to learn about her connection to Mystique.
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I like that Mystique has compassion, even though Rogue has thrown in with the enemy.
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Kitty is seriously injured and unconscious. Masque messes with her, but her appearance is fine at the end of this issue–even if she is still knocked out, lying on a New York street, which sets up the next story.
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…Where we learn she is rescued by Caliban, who wants to marry her.
As for Cyclops, he’s honeymooning.
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Who took that picture of Scott and Madelyne in bed?
Nightcrawler is also getting some romance, and he’s wearing my favorite kind of disguise…A trenchcoat!
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