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TFW you forget a plotline for over a year and have to recap not only the original hook, but the entire context. (Uncanny X-Men #232)
If I had a dollar for every time this had happened when I was out camping… (Uncanny X-Men #232)
AND THAT’S WHY YOU ALWAYS LEAVE A NOTE. (Uncanny X-Men #232)
That is definitely not how you perform CPR. (Uncanny X-Men #232)
A lot of our nightmares start like this. (Uncanny X-Men #232)
“Okay. This looks bad.” (Uncanny X-Men #233)
Nope. (Uncanny X-Men #233)
That’s… actually, that’s incredibly reasonable. (Uncanny X-Men #233)
How much do we love this cover? SO MUCH. (Uncanny X-Men #234)
That couple in the background are by far our favorite characters in this arc. (Uncanny X-Men #234)
And again. (Uncanny X-Men #234)
“So, meth, then?” (Uncanny X-Men #234)
Ouch. (Uncanny X-Men #232)
You know that thing where you have a really awful dream about someone you know, and you wake up really mad at them, and then you team up with demons and try to sacrifice a bunch of babies and turn New York into Hell? Yeah, me, too. (Uncanny X-Men #233)
In Madelyne’s defense, this really is a super fucked up dream. (Uncanny X-Men #233)
“She’s her old self again, but about six inches shorter.” (Uncanny X-Men #233)
There is literally nothing okay about what is going on here. (Uncanny X-Men #234)
Has anyone ever tried to reproduce this awesome manicure IRL? You should do that. (Uncanny X-Men #234)
The first official apparance of one of the worst villain costumes in X-Men. At least it’s memorable? (Uncanny X-Men #234)
Next Week: This asshole.
LINKS AND FURTHER READING:
- For an introduction to the Brood (and one of the best Brood stories ever), listen to Episode 20 – The Brood They Carried.
- For more on Hannah Conover, check out Left Unresolved – Do the X-Men Still Have a Frozen Lady in Their Freezer?, by Brian Cronin, over at CBR.
- Here’s a pretty solid overview of the unfathomable clusterfuck of the direct market, from Heidi MacDonald at the Beat; including links to a number of other analyses from retailer and publisher perspectives.
I noticed on the #234 cover that it said late Sept. Was Uncanny coming out twice/month at this point, and how long did that last?
Forget “The Great Mutant Massacre”! Forget “Fall of the Mutants”! Forget even “Inferno”!
Here we have the most terrifying event in the X-Men, nay the Marvel Universe, nay the entire comic genre; Maddy Pryor in – “Rise of The Underboob!”
Oh Madelyne. I always feel so bad for her and how this whole thing ends up playing out. I feel that while Scott’s mental breakdown is generally handled ‘well’ in X-Factor, Madelyne going through the same thing ends up with her in this frame of ridiculous overreaction? Of course, she’s manipulated by demons and Sinister and editorial (the most powerful of them all) but man, it just always frustrates me.
Since Madelyne was walking around before the restructuring and rebuilding of the world, I like to think that she’s still out there having nothing to do with the X-men and building herself a place in the world. I’m probably the only person who would but I would totally buy a story where she gets get groove back and gets to meet Cable and generally turns into a character who wants nothing to do with the hero hijinks of the rest of the Marvel Universe but keeps running into plots anyway.
Bring on the underboob!