Chris Claremont, with artist Alan Davis, returns to the X-Men and the results are…Mediocre. But complicated. It’s Chris Claremont so, yeah, of course they’re complicated.
After a baseball game, the mutants split in two teams. One, the X.S.E., go after some terrorists called, unimaginatively, The Weaponeers.
Oh, and Rachel Summers is back. Not sure how that happened. Anyway, they’re not the major villain in this story–but the Weaponeers will be back in the pages of Excalibur.
Another team meets up with an alternate reality threat.
It’s a creature from another version of Captain Braddock.
It does a bunch of damage, including possessing Sage, before the X-Men defeat it.
There’s of course lots (and lots) of details and character work along the way.
Lots of people swear that this is a great X-Men run, and I get it. If you like the early ’80s X-stories, it’s got the same soap opera feel and more characters than you can possibly keep track of. For me, though, I’m kind of past that now and not looking to revisit.