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This will be important later. Much later. (Uncanny X-Men #265)
“If only there were some sort of… dangerous… room in which to train! (Uncanny X-Men #265)
Man, dig that body language. Lots of folks forget that the Orphan-Maker is a kid – not Bill Jaaska. (Uncanny X-Men #265)
The Shadow King is the worst, but his Jacob Reisz incarnation is extra-the-worst. (Uncanny X-Men #265)
“Dad, you grew a beard! Mom, you grew a OH DEAR GOD WHAT THE HELL IS THAT” (Uncanny X-Men #265)
When life gives you amnesia-lemons, make thievery-lemonade! (Uncanny X-Men #265)
Seriously: Extra The Worst. (Uncanny X-Men #265)
Storm commands the lightning and the storm and the wet towel right in your face! (Uncanny X-Men #266)
It’s kind of arbitrary that the Shadow King and Storm are nemeses, but damn if it doesn’t completely work. (Uncanny X-Men #266)
Hey, it’s Gambit’s first full panel! “Who is that mysterious and surprisingly colorful man?” (Uncanny X-Men #266)
Gambit’s powers used to work a little differently. Well, for one issue, anyway – the whole eyes-and-spikes thing will be mostly gone by next time. (Uncanny X-Men #266)
This, for the record, is the speech that Evil Lian Shen sees as being full of innuendo. (Uncanny X-Men #266)
I knew you’d been together for a long time, Mystique and Destiny, but I didn’t know that you were SUPER HOT. (Uncanny X-Men #266)
Any scene involving Mystique: exactly as it seems, of course. (Uncanny X-Men #266)
Suddenly, Jim Lee! (Uncanny X-Men #267)
Gambit’s too good for panel borders. (Uncanny X-Men #267)
Okay, that’s legitimately charming. (Uncanny X-Men #267)
I would read an entire series about what happens on this page. (Uncanny X-Men #267)
Ororo Munroe: badass at any age. (Uncanny X-Men #267)
Robot-suit fight! (Uncanny X-Men #267)
*triumphant wailing guitars* (Uncanny X-Men #267)
Next time: Excalibur meanders.
Hey guys, what ever happened to Storm’s ancestral ruby? I remember hearing about it but no one has really touched on it in years. Care to X-plain that one?
I think it was a heretofore perfectly ordinary ruby randomly turned into one of a set that could open dimensional portals in the 00’s X-Treme X-Men. Don’t think it’d been used for anything fancy prior to that, or since.
Wait, BWS and BS teamed up to do an issue of Excalibur!?! I guess I must have given up on the series during the never-ending Cross Time Caper, because I can’t believe I could have forgotten that combo even if the issue was terrible. Pretty sure BS was my favorite artist in 1990, I certainly knew who he was (from Doctor Zero, don’t think I ever really registered his name during his New Mutants run).
Also, I’ve got to admit I think I started regularly buying the X-men again when Jim Lee took over. For all its faults, it really was fun art, and that seemed to translate over to the stories. Flip side, I hated the Shadow King stuff. He’d already worn out his welcome with me by that storyline with Karma in NM, and Claremont’s attempt to make him the biggest villain of the X-world really grated.
Yes,YES, i lovve when she makes the plane move as an escape! 😀 😀
that was REALLY interesting, about the alternative gambit origin/etc sytory, that they didnt end up using! id never heard that b4.
X-TRA good ep! nice one guys
Looking at the original comic, in the panel where Ororo’s dad is turning into Reisz, his skin is white, the same shade as Reisz’s. It’s even more terrifying because the transformation is more jarring. And because other reasons that could probably be explored in greater depth.