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You're going to be really surprised by this one.<br />
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I'm a Marvel fan at heart. It's no dig on DC, I've just always gravitated to the Marvel characters and stories a little more than DC. That being said, I do read DC books, because I just generally love superhero stories. I'm currently getting caught up on the Rebirth series from DC, but I was a huge fan of the New 52 stories that came out a few years back.<br />
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So my exposure to DC is limited, and my knowledge of Wonder Woman even more so. I've read her books in the past, but I always liked her best in the Justice League of America. Since my Wonder Woman knowledge isn't as good as my Spider-Man knowledge I went into this movie with an open mind, and I am truly thankful for that.<br />
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Upon seeing the initial trailer my first thought was "Oh, it's DC's version of Captain America". I wasn't wrong, however I didn't expect to enjoy the film as much as I did. <br />
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If you're looking for your TL;DR for this review here it is - this movie is fantastic. Absolutely fantastic.<br />
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This movie took all those mistakes that the other DC movies make (having a movie that is entirely a montage aka Suicide Squad, rushed story with pointless fights and Jesus Batman aka BvS, and collateral damage the movie aka Man of Steel) and rather than repeat the cycle of pain, it did something unheard of in the DCEU and had a cohesive plot with strong character development.<br />
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We first see Wonder Woman in the Louvre where a Wayne Enterprises armored van pulls up and delivers a briefcase to her desk with an image inside from World War I, Diana's first experience in the world of men. The rest of the movie is Diana's story.<br />
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We are introduced to the Amazonian training on the island of Themyscria and to a young Diana. We see her marvel over the warriors as they trained for a battle they weren't sure would ever come, as well as we see her mother teach her about the history of the island and their purpose to life. <br />
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We see Diana train throughout her youth until something enters into Themyscria's ocean that has never been seen before...a man. This is when Diana is introduced to the world outside of Themyscria and to the fact that war is raging around them. Knowing that it is Diana's duty to stop war and save people's lives, she decides to go against her mother's wishes and enter the world of men to stop the god of war Aries, knowing she can never return to Themyscria.<br />
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Diana is taken to London with Steve Trevor, the first man whom she has ever met, where she is introduced to the world of men for the first time, as well as the politics that govern them. After several frustrating conversations, she and Steve gather a team to enter the front lines of the war and stop General Ludendorff and Dr. Maru aka Dr. Poison.<br />
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Dr. Poison is working on developing gases that would not only give the German army immense power, but also lay waste to entire towns with zero chance of survival. Diana believes that General Ludendorff is the god of war Ares, and that should she defeat him, the war will end.<br />
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I won't give any more away, because I think everyone should go see this movie! If you want DC to improve and Warner Brothers to listen, you've gotta support the good movies, and so far this is the only one!<br />
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So what made it so good? Batman isn't in it, Superman isn't in it, Harley Quinn isn't in it, so why would anyone like it?<br />
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I think that's the general impression people have. Batman, Superman and Harley Quinn are very popular characters, however so far within the DCEU they <i>all</i> have been horribly misrepresented. Rather than having them been taken seriously, they instead were treated like money making tropes. Wonder Woman is actually treated like a film.<br />
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First and foremost, this movie has character, and it's characters have character. The film felt organic, totally fluid. Though it was an origin story, it was fresh, new, and <i>not rushed</i>. They did an incredible job building a solid foundation for Wonder Woman while doing something DC rarely ever does, they gave each character personality! <br />
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Normally in DC movies everything is so serious, everything is always so serious, Batman is serious, Superman is serious, because they are always facing these global threats. Wonder Woman is very serious, but they found ways to work in very much needed levity that are still prevalent in times of war. This helped keep good pacing on the film, and not make it feel like it was droning on for over two hours.<br />
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Gal Gadot did a bang up job as Diana Prince. To me, this felt like a really tough role to play. Not only did she have to master all these amazing battle tactics, but she also had to play the role of an alien among humans. She had to appear as a child among men, learning what our world is for the first time, that is no easy feat in my opinion. She also had to have blind perseverance to her life's goal, while dealing with roadblocks like the government, human nature, and weapons she has never encountered before. All in all, though she was a grown woman, Diana was just an ignorant kid who thought she could change the world...and from that she learned what it meant to be human.<br />
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Personally I think that setting the film during World War I rather than World War II was a very smart move. I feel a majority of films revolve around WWII that we see all of our superheros who have been around long enough to take part in. WWI is really an amazing time period as this is one of the most deadly wars of all time.<br />
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It was in WWI where we saw the introduction of new and frighteningly deadly weapons. Airplanes, submarines, flamethrowers, tanks depth charges, poison gas, the list goes on and on. The face of war had never seen weapons like this before. It makes sense that having another unknown force, an Amazonian warrior would fit well into this facade.<br />
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Speaking of WWI - General Ludendorf, the guy who Diana thinks is the embodiment of Ares the god of war, is a real guy. The real General Ludendorf was very prominent in WWI and even after he was a strong political force to be reckoned with. He was a power hungry man, just like the the movie, and firmly felt that peace was simply a period between wars, nothing more than that.<br />
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This makes me happy to see that the writers took WWI and weaved Wonder Woman into the fabric of the war, rather than having the War revolve around Wonder Woman (much like in Captain America).<br />
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One last note before you go see this movie. This is a super important piece of cinema for women. Not only has Gal Gadot taken her place among the many other amazing and badass women of entertainment (Ellen Ripley, Buffy Summers, Black Widow, Xena), but now we have a female director making a record breaking movie. This is insanely important, and I'm so happy it happened with a superhero film.<br />
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I feel like had this movie had bombed the media would have gone on a tyraid about it like they did with that horrendous Ghostbusters remake, and it would firmly keep women as a "back up" to men in the profession. Thankfully that did not happen. What I hope is that women will be considered more for leading hero roles as well as in director roles moving forward. <br />
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Let's be honest there is nothing better than a strong female hero. Women are badass, way more badass than men. They have more depth, they have sexiness, they have so much more strength. I prefer female heroes to men. I always have and I always will. Hence why I'm a huge fan of Joss Whedon.<br />
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Overall, this movie nailed it. Great fights, great story, and a setup that leaves me wanting so much more from the DCEU. Let's hope that Warner Bros is listening to what people are saying, and they can turn the sinking ship around. I think this is a great first step, and I'm excited to see what else they turn out moving forward.<br />
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What did you all think? Speak your mind in the comments!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01064336946083789791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597815608133576229.post-10165141376762551732017-04-28T08:00:00.000-05:002017-04-28T08:00:28.154-05:00X-Men Issue 22 - Divided We Fall<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The X-Men are back in the danger room, where Professor X has cooked up a new challenge for the team. Since their last couple of fights have been against giant robots, Professor X made a giant freaking robot for them to fight. He gives them five minutes to defeat said robot otherwise they fail the challenge...and...I guess feel bad that they failed. I doubt anything bad would ever happen if they failed a challenge, I mean with the exception of Cyclops probably wanting to commit seppuku. <br />
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The clock starts and the battle begins. The X-Men quickly learn that they need to work as a team as their individual attacks are easily thwarted by Colosso the robot. PS - I love that Professor X names the robot trying to kill his team. In all honesty he should have named it like Robot 1, or even X-Death or something rad. Colosso sounds too personal, like he became attached to this robot.<br />
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Anyway - so the X-Men are fighting Colosso, and it manages to lift up Marvel Girl and Cyclops. Luckily Cyclops noticed all these flashing lights when it moved to grab them, and he deduces that it has sensors in it which they can block.<br />
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Huzzah - the X-Men win again.<br />
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So - let's just take a quick tangent here because there has been something I've been avoiding posting about for pretty much every issue, and honestly this issue is kinda "meh" so we'll finally address this because it's only going to get worse.<br />
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So Cyclops loves Marvel Girl, and Marvel Girl loves Cyclops, but there's this whole impending <i>13 Reasons Why</i> vibe coming off of them. Like one day Cyclops is going to wake up to Marvel Girl being dead and he's going to have all these reel-to-reel tapes to listen to.<br />
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Pretty much from issue 1 the two have been in love with one another, but we only know about it because of their thought bubbles. Everything always comes down to Jean thinking "Oh Scott, if only you knew how I felt about you!" and then Scott thinks "I can never let her know I love her because my eyes can destroy her". On and on and on the wheel of whatever this is spins.<br />
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Throw into the mix that Angel is pursuing Jean hard. Like <i>real</i> hard. He wants a piece. Jean humors him (aka let's him drive her around and buy her stuff) while she just mopes around pining after Scott. It kinda gets a little overblown this issue and it's just written so that every time I read it I just say "ugh here we go" to this whole romance that isn't a romance but they want it to be a romance. <br />
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Long story short, Scott needs to man the hell up, write Jean a letter that says "Do you like me circle yes or no" and then Jean can circle the word "OR" and we can continue this cycle. <br />
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I mean I get it. They are teenagers. Teenage love is super annoying, so I guess they definitely got the annoying part right. That's all I'm going to say about this until the next time it gets out of hand. Just remember, Scott love Jean, Jean love Scott, they will never tell (at least not until the late 80s).<br />
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So because they defeat a robot, Professor X, for like the fourth time, tries to give them a vacation.<br />
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Like always, Hank and Bobby go out to Greenwich Village to see their "gals" they are kind of dating.<br />
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Jean and Warren go to dinner before they are about to head home.<br />
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Scott gets a hotel room in New York for 2 weeks because he has nowhere to go (seriously), but he also decided to butt in on Jean and Warren's dinner first.<br />
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As Scott is walking around the park because he has nothing to do, he sees Marvel Girl flying over the treetops into the park, then vanishes.<br />
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Jean hears a news report that a flying X-Man was spotted, and she knows that she and Warren are the only two that can fly, so she decides to check it out. Voila, she ends up in the park and get's captured.<br />
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Hank and Bobby hear the news, and Hank decides he'll Beast up and go inspect things further. He tells Bobby to make an excuse for him and he heads to the park. Voila, he ends up captured.<br />
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Warren is driving and he hears a news report about X-Men in the park, then he sees he body double and, you guessed it, voila he get's captured.<br />
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Bobby is now seriously worried about his friends. He hears the news report and heads to the park. He sees Cyclops and they get into a small fight with The Eel and The Unicorn...but voila, they get captured.<br />
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Professor X is too busy to help the team because he is at home sulking about being crippled (seriously).<br />
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The X-Men are loaded up onto a boat and taken to an island where they are held prisoner by a man named Count Nefaria - Master of Images. Count Nefaria is looking to have the X-Men team up with his gang, the Maggia, so that they can reclaim their former glory. <br />
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The X-Men deny his request so he leaves them shackled in a dungeon. The last panel we see of him he is looking at a screen with a crosshair aimed directly on the capitol building in Washington D.C.<br />
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So quickly - because this story is so boring I didn't really explain who the X-Men are fighting. So The Maggia are a villainous team who apparently fought, and lost, to Iron Man. The members of the group (from left to right) are Scarecrow, Porcupine, Count Nefaria, The Plantman, The Eel, and The Unicorn. (Do you see why I'm glossing over this issue?)<br />
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Ominous Dominus - will the X-Men survive?<br />
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When we last left the X-Men they had hopped into their jet, and were flying off to vaguely stated Southwest Desert. As they are flying a beam of light comes from the sky and knocks them off their course. As they steer the jet away from the beam of light, they can see that there are forms inside of the beam, coming down to Earth.<br />
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On the outskirts of the desert, a team of cowboys sees the light and decides to investigate. They mount their horses (under the pretenses that their station wagon won't be able to navigate the rough terrain. I've seen Vacation, they are correct, station wagons are in fact not off-road vehicles) and make their way toward the beam of light.<br />
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Back in the jet, the sun has risen for the day, and giant geysers are shooting up into the air from the top of the rock they spotted the beam coming down on. As they survey the area, they also find a river flowing into the bottom of the rocky spire, and decide this is where they will make their entrance into the lair of Lucifer.<br />
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Seeing as how Professor X has been crippled by Lucifer twice now in his life, he decides to stay behind and let the X-Men check this one out...but they are ambushed by our cowboy friends. The X-Men make quick work of them, and hop onto an ice raft which Iceman has formed, and ride the river into the bottom of the rock.<br />
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Things are going smoothly...too smoothly. Just as the X-Men get comfortable and think they won't have any issue getting into the lair, a surprise whirlpool forms underneath them, sucking the X-Men into it's watery depths.<br />
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As Xavier sits alone in the desert, he senses danger when he realizes that he has lost contact with the X-Men. As he tries hard to reestablish a connection, he fails to notice two massive robots that approach him from behind and wrap him in big pieces of metal. They fly him into Lucifer's lair.<br />
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Lucifer's lair is surrounded by computers and intense machinery. This machinery isn't just for looks, this machinery is really the biggest part of Lucifer's plan. This machinery is Dominus!<br />
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Angel has escaped the whirlpool unscathed, but he is the only X-Man who managed to do so. Not wanting to leave his X-Men in dire straights, Angel dives back into the whirlpool determined to save his friends from a watery death.<br />
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Instead - what he finds is that the team has been sucked down into an underwater cavern, but two of the team are missing! Iceman and Beast are not able to be found! Cyclops, Angel, and Marvel Girl start searching the area when they see an opening in a rock structure. However, when they enter that structure, they unknowingly enter into a trap! This is no mere opening, this is a transparent cage of some sort, and the three X-Men are trapped!<br />
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We then see Beast get pulled from the waters by a robot hand. Beast tries to free himself from their metallic grasp, but the robots won't budge. Just when Beast thinks he's done for, Iceman surfs over the waters on his ice surfboard and kicks it into the back of the robot's head, causing it to drop the Beast. The fearsome twosome knock the giant robots over and almost make a fantastic escape, when their escape path is cut off by a large metal wall.<br />
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Lucifer, pleased at the fact that he has captured Professor X's team, now decides it's time to reveal his plan to Professor X. The robots have beamed down from Lucifer's home planet. They were made to operate the Dominus machine. This Dominus machine has been used by Lucifer's race on innumerable planets over the eons. This machine takes away free will from all humanoid inhabitants of the planet. Lucifer's race then uses those mindless humanoids as slaves to do their bidding, and Lucifer intends to do the same to Earth!<br />
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Beast and Iceman have now been placed in the transparent prison along with the rest of the X-Men, and the giant robots are now transporting them, and their prison deeper into the rock fortress for Lucifer to take care of. However, though the X-Men's powers are useless against this impenetrable prison - Marvel Girl finds out that her telepathic powers are able to extend outside of the prison, and she telepathically flips the switch on a control panel which releases the prison door.<br />
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Cyclops blasts his optic beam at a robot's back and it topples to the floor. Not wanting to push their luck, the team flee deeper into the mechanical cavern. Lucifer, seeing this transpire on his security monitors, commands the rest of his robot team to pursue the X-Men, and to destroy them on site.<br />
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The X-Men hide from the robots in some large mechanical constructions, and just about as they are going to start blasting it to kingdom come, Professor X gives them the order not to attack the building. The X-Men are in a bind. They know that Professor X stayed outside of the base in the desert, and that they lost all communications with him. What they don't know is that Professor X has been captured by Lucifer and is now in his lair. So the X-Men are now poised with a question - is this really Professor X sending them the mental message not to harm the mechanical construction known as Dominus!<br />
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They decide to explore this massive mechanical monstrosity and when they navigate their way down some tubes and hallways they end up discovering the main lair of Lucifer, where Professor X is held prisoner. To confuse the team more, Professor X is no longer giving them mental communications, nor is he moving at all in the presence of Lucifer. The X-Men suddenly turn on each other.<br />
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After a quick battle, the X-Men destroy all the robots leaving Lucifer defenseless.<br />
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Just as the team is going to attack Lucifer, he gets an intergalactic phone call from his boss. His boss is furious that the robots have been defeated, and because of this one defeat apparently all the other planets that have been enslaved by Dominus are now able to revolt and overthrow the machines. So the leader has no choice other than to imprison Lucifer in the nameless dimension where time and space cease to exist.<br />
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Professor X now explains to the X-Men that if they would have attacked the machine Dominus it would have reflected whatever attack they sent at it back at the X-Men. So taking out the robots was the next logical choice.<br />
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With the Earth safe from enslavement, the X-Men head back to the jet to go back home.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01064336946083789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597815608133576229.post-50960359874666661452017-04-26T08:00:00.000-05:002017-04-26T08:00:10.750-05:00X-Men Issue 20 - I, Lucifer...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This issue: The tragic tale of how Professor X ended up in a wheelchair.<br />
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We open on a bank where two men in X-Men uniforms are attempting to rob it. They look unfamiliar to us, but to the general public these X-Men suddenly begin to shape a newer view on the misunderstood mutants. After some banter between the two mutants and the owner of the bank, the larger X-Man rips the door off the safe, and starts pulling money out.<br />
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A security guard musters his bravery and fires several rounds at the larger mutant...but the bullets merely bounce off the big mutant's body as if they were rubber. A stray bullet comes close to the skinnier mutant, but before it can come close enough to touch him, it diverts its course, as if there was some sort of force field around the man.<br />
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Something isn't right, these powers seem familiar, but when they are disguised as X-Men who can know who these impostors really are?<br />
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Outside of the bank the police swarm the two mutants, but all their advances are thwarted, and the pair escape.<br />
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Back at the mansion, away from the chaos of the city, Scott Summers packs a bag, leaves a note on his dresser, and walks out the mansion door. The turmoil his powers bring to his daily life have finally broken him, he wants nothing more in life than to be with Jean Grey, but he's too afraid of harming her with his optic blasts to get close to her, so he's off to find someone who can fix his eyes.<br />
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The rest of the team has no idea this is all happening because they are engrossed in the news report about the bank robbery, and appalled to hear that someone was dressed in costume tarnishing their reputation.<br />
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Xavier, who has been mentally monitoring the broadcast has finally finished his rebuild of Cerebro, and is about to use it to pinpoint who these mutants could be posing as them. He flips on a new feature, the radar image beam, and like magic the image of two familiar, yet forgotten mutants appears on the wall.<br />
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The Blob and Unus are the phony X-Men!<br />
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Upon this realization, the X-Men all realize that Scott Summers is not with them to share in their frustration that two mutants, whom they thought they had discouraged from doing evil deeds, are back up to their old tricks. Professor X says he knew about Scott leaving, but he doesn't have time to care.<br />
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Xaiver also senses that there is a third entity who is helping Blob and Unus, but as he searches his memory to find the names of other villains that they have stopped in the past, he realizes that there is a mental screen over one particular mutant. Now you would think common sense would dictate that if you couldn't think of one mutant's name, you would ask the group and see if they could remember...but instead Professor X decides to build a machine to remove the mental block.<br />
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We as readers find out immediately who this nefarious villain is - Lucifer, the bad guy who crippled Professor X many years ago! He mentally suggested that Blob go fight Unus in the wrestling ring, and hoped that they would realize that as besties they would have so much free time for evil activities! You know what, that's exactly what happened. Blob and Unus had a Step-Brother's moment where they realized they both hate the X-Men and love doing wrestling (or 'rasslin) in the garage. So they team up, dress up as X-Men and go rob banks.<br />
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As Blob and Unus load up the cash from their second bank robbery, a plain clothed dressed Scott Summers walks the streets and sees what they are doing. Rather than jump into the fray he convinces himself it isn't his problem since he quit the X-Men. After a moment though, his conscience gets the better of him and he suits up!<br />
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Blob and Unus try and act like Cyclops is their buddy, hoping the public buys it, but Cyclops won't stand for that. Using his optic blast he destroys a bag of money and knocks over a light pole in hopes that the public would see that he doesn't like them very much.<br />
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Just as Cyclops leaves in fear the rest of the X-men show up, but little do they know that Lucifer is watching them from 2,000 miles away! Beast arrives on the scene with the ray they used against Unus the last time they met him, and he opens fire on Unus. Unus takes the beam like a champ this time, just walks it off like it's no big deal. They never knew that Lucifer was responsible for Unus' immunity for the ray. They just think it's broken.<br />
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A fight ensues, an old lady hits Beast with an umbrella, and when Cyclops returns, he blasts a hole so deep underneath Blob and Unus, they fall onto a moving subway and vanish underground.<br />
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Lucifer is mad as beans now, and he senses that Professor X has penetrated his mental screen. So Lucifer has this big telescope rise out of a mountain area (which still can't be seen because of opalescent gas surrounding it) and a canon emerges from its insides. It fires a beam of energy that follows Professor X's mental waves leaving Professor X paralyzed...again.<br />
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Professor X can now only communicate with Marvel Girl mentally, though even that communication is fading fast. Professor X tells Marvel Girl that she needs to wear a mental wave amplifier so that she can hear him better. Then he proceeds to tell the story about the time he first met Lucifer...which really doesn't seem like an ideal time. "Help me, I'm fading quickly, here's like a 6 page story about why I'm paralyzed." "But Professor, I don't think this is the right ti-" "It was long ago in the desert..."<br />
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Long story short (Xavier is dying and all), Professor X drives in the desert until he finds a small town under a powerful dictatorship aka Lucifer. Xavier leads a small rebellion against him, and they foil all of Lucifers traps into his castle, then Lucifer drops a big stone slab on Xavier's legs and back. Voila, he's paralyzed.<br />
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In present time, Lucifer is communicating with his Supreme One, letting him know of his success in paralyzing Xavier for a second time. The Supreme One orders the coming of something called Dominus.<br />
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The X-Men return to school and find that Xavier is paralyzed again and he needs a machine to keep him alive. So now Beast will build a machine. Rattle, rattle, thunder, clatter, boom boom boom, Beast now has built a beam distorter. Essentially it's a fishbowl with some wires on it that Professor X will wear on his head. <br />
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If you can believe it - the X-Men think they might be about to fight their biggest threat! So they load up the plane and fly off to the Southwest Desert.<br />
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The X-Men have recovered from their last couple of difficult battles, and are back in training with Cyclops ensuring they are serious about their skill development and on the constant path to improvement, when Professor X brings training to a halt. He expresses his gratitude for the X-Men's hard work, and tells them they have all earned a vacation!<br />
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Woohoo! Oh wait, I won't celebrate yet because every time this team gets to go on vacation bad stuff happens. I mean, we're almost 20 issues in, maybe we should hold up hope that this crew of kids will actually get to unwind for a bit (minus Cyclops, his 2nd special power is the power of always being too concerned about danger).<br />
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The kids don their civilian clothes and head out to their vacations (which, when you read the panels, is really just like the afternoon off work). Jean Grey goes shopping at the mall, Bobby Drake and Hank McCoy have dates, The Angel is rich, and Scott "Slim" Summers reverts back to his favorite past time...brooding.<br />
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Hank and Bobby meet their date at the library, where Hank quickly gets into an argument with his date about books. As they walk down the sidewalk, Hank's date is accosted by another young man whom she had rejected. When Hank intervenes the man suddenly seems to be able to use all the same powers of The Beast, and he quickly knocks Hank out.<br />
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Not pleased to see his fellow X-Man in trouble, Bobby Drake steps in and tosses a snowball in the man's face. The man then creates an ice shield and escapes an unruly mob that has formed as the fight on the sidewalk progressed. The man finds his way on top of a roof ecstatic to see that he has acquired these powers.<br />
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This young man is Calvin Rankin and he has the power to mimic other mutant's powers while he is in their vicinity.<br />
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As Calvin explores his new powers he realizes that he has just discovered the identities of two X-Men, Beast and Iceman. Sadly for Calvin, his excitement with these new powers is short lived. Though he may take full advantage of other people's power when he is around them, he does not retain the power when the leave.<br />
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Upset, Calvin decides to go to the mall for a bite to eat, when he bumps into another of the X-Men, Marvel Girl. Suddenly, Calvin can teleport sugar containers to his table, and he realizes right away who the mutant is...that's when he starts hatching his master plan.<br />
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Calvin follows Jean Grey back to the mansion, where he introduces himself under the guise of wanting to apologize to those whom he got into altercations with earlier that day. He introduces himself to everyone on the team, including Professor X, and then is allowed to roam freely through the mansion.<br />
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Professor X can sense that he is dangerous, but decides not to poke the tiger since Calvin has a leg up on them, knowing their secret identities and where the mansion is. What he doesn't yet realize is just what Calvin is up to.<br />
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In a room by himself, Calvin slips out of his civilian gear and admires his new mutant body. Since he is in such a close vicinity to the X-Men, he has acquired all their powers. He now has large feet like Beast as well as has sprouted large wings from his back like Angel. A pair of dark sunglasses keeps the energy power that Cyclops harnesses at bay, he even has acquired Professor X's powers!<br />
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When he emerges from the room, he is dressed in his costume and is now referring to himself as The Mimic, and plans on defeating the X-Men with their own powers. However he is quickly overcome by having so many mutants gang up on him at once.<br />
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When the X-Men think they have won the day and let their guard down, Mimic kidnaps Marvel Girl and drives her to an old abandoned mine. This is where we learn exactly what the Mimic is.<br />
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Professor X was surprised with the Mimic since Cerebro did not alert him to another mutant's presence. That is because Mimic, though he can copy mutant powers, is not himself a mutant. He is a product of science gone awry. His father was a scientist performing experiments in his house. Mimic aka Calvin went messing around in his lab and spilled a beaker - now he can copy not just mutant powers, but any attributes which are deemed good. So all through school Calvin was the best, because he could mimic the teacher's knowledge, or the best football players skill.<br />
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Eventually though, people got tired of Calvin being good at everything, so they ran him out of town, where he and his father converted this old mine into a lab. However again, the people didn't like that they were doing so many experiments in that lab, so they blew it up, killing Calvin's father, and burying the invention they were working on...a machine that would make the mutant abilities that Calvin got permanent.<br />
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That's when Marvel Girl figures out Mimic's plan, to bring the X-Men to the cave so he can make their powers permanent and become an all powerful being.<br />
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Mimic comes close too! He manages to find and activate the machine his father built, but Professor X short circuited the machine and caused an explosion in the cave. Professor X also tells the team that the machine he was building with his father wasn't one which would make his powers permanent, but would take away his power of mimicking forever.<br />
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Then Professor X mind-wipes Calvin's memory and he goes off to live a normal life.<br />
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Here is my one big gripe with this. If Calvin could absorb the good parts of people's personalities, he obviously was able to mimic his father's powerful knowledge of science, because Calvin was helping him build the machine. Why on earth didn't Calvin realize that he was building a machine to take away his powers? <br />
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The X-Men are in dire straights. Professor X, Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, and Angel have all be knocked out, placed in a metal sphere attached to a balloon, and are rising into the upper atmosphere where they will die of suffocation. On Earth, Iceman is still stuck inside of his coma in the hospital with little to no help coming his way. Magneto, proud of his work, takes action.<br />
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Using his incredible magnetic strength, Magneto lifts the X-Men's mansion off the ground with the intention to destroy it, but then realizes a better way to use the mansion...as his new base! As he tidy's up inside (because the mansion got messy when he levitated it off the ground), Angel's parents ring the doorbell. Magneto introduces himself, and then turns Angel's parents into his brainwashed slaves when he had them look into his eye like a magician from the 1920s. <br />
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Angel's parents fall into a deep trance, and head up to the spare bedroom exhausted. While Angel's parents are asleep Magneto builds a mutant making machine (much like Trask did with the sentinels), and taps into Angel's parents blood cells, analyzing them for the mutant gene. Now not only will this mutant machine Magneto has made allow him to create mutants, but it will also allow him to control the powers that they possess!<br />
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Back in the upper atmosphere, Professor X has found a way to break free of Magneto's mental wave distorter, and it falls to the ground around him shattered. He rouses the rest of the X-Men, and then reaches out to Iceman, hoping that he is able to be contacted.<br />
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At the hospital, the doctors have created a laser induces hypodermic which will penetrate Iceman's cold and hard exterior. The process is slow, but eventually they are able to bore a hole in his exterior and inject him with a sulfa drug. When Professor X reaches out to Iceman mentally, Iceman hears him and is able to get out of bed and follow Professor X's orders.<br />
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Iceman uses an ice slide to get back to the mansion quickly, and without being noticed. He climbs up his ice ladder outside of the mansion and see Magneto using the mutant creation machine on Angel's parents, but he slips and falls to the ground before he can stop Magneto. <br />
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Magneto pulls the lever on the machine and he begins creating mutants.<br />
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Iceman is not down for the count yet though. He gets into the room with Angel's parents and blocks off the machine's access to them by forming an ice barrier between the two and Magneto's body cell selector.<br />
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Magneto doesn't like this, and he lashes out by throwing everything he can at Iceman, who dodges it all gracefully while creating an ice slide and slipping between Magneto's legs. <br />
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Iceman pulls Magneto down the ice slide tunnel he has created leading out into the front yard, and then traps Magneto inside an igloo.<br />
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Back in the balloon, Marvel Girl has used her telepathy to stop the balloon's ascension into space, and Cyclops has focused his optic blast to a pinpoint on the balloon, letting out it's gas. The gas escapes too quickly, and the X-Men fall quickly to Earth. <br />
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Just before they hit the ground, Marvel Girl uses her telepathic powers to stop the bubble from crashing into Earth.<br />
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When they finally escape the confines of the bubble - they see Iceman and Magneto engaged in battle, and rush to his aid.<br />
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The X-Men and Magneto collide in battle, while Professor X performs his most challenging telepathic outreach so far, as he mentally reaches across the universe to come in contact with The Stranger. The Stranger heeds his warning, and flies back to Earth, abducting Magneto again.<br />
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The X-Men run inside the mansion and quickly switch off the body cell selector machine Magneto made, and the mutants he was creating vanish before their eyes. Angel's parents wake up feeling rested and refreshed, and they all sit down for a nice dinner.<br />
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How the heck did Magneto escape from The Stranger in the first place?<br />
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Well, I'm glad you asked that question. While Magneto was held captive on a strange planet by The Stranger, he and Toad found a spaceship graveyard. Magneto used his powers of magnetism to build a new space ship. He then kicked Toad off the ship, abandoning him on the planet, and used his magnetism powers to navigate back to Earth.<br />
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There you go! Now you know!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01064336946083789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597815608133576229.post-29971611882667703092017-04-20T11:22:00.001-05:002017-04-20T11:22:31.344-05:00X-Men Issue 17 - ...And None Shall Survive<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Seems like the X-Men might have finally met their match...right after they almost met their match...which happened right after they met their match...<br />
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The X-Men lay injured as military and EMTs surround them. Some rushing to the aid of the X-Men, others rushing to storm the Sentinel's hidden fortress. Everyone is proud of the X-Men and is ready to give them credit for their good deeds, much to Professor X's surprise. Iceman and Beast are fairly severely injured and are rushed to the hospital with Cyclops, while Marvel Girl and Angel escort Professor X to the hospital to check up on everyone.<br />
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Now is the time for Professor X's most challenging, and most overly expressed task - to make sure the X-Men don't reveal their true identities as well as make sure the X-Men don't acknowledge him as their leader. Professor X really only wants people to see him as a concerned citizen and friend of the X-Men.<br />
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Did I say Ice man wasn't seriously injured? I meant Ice Man is very seriously injured. He blacked out in the ambulance on the way to the hospital and has fallen into a coma. Due to Professor X advising him not to melt his ice, he's put the doctor's into a pickle as they cannot treat him due to his hard icy exterior. So they watch as he talks aloud about helping the team as he sleeps fast.<br />
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Professor X also helps Cyclops show an optometrist that he is beyond help, by having him use his optic blast. He also helps Beast not over explain their relationship to the doctors. <br />
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As his micromanaging session comes to and end, Angel calls the answering service (remember, this was before answering machines were invented) and gathers his messages. GASP! Angels parents are coming for a visit to the mansion! Professor X calls them back quickly and tries to dissuade them, but Angel's parents are firm in their resolve to see their son.<br />
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Upset that he wasn't able to turn Angel's parents away from their visit, he asks Angel to fly back to the school and check everything out - as he feel an odd sense of danger coming from the school. When Angel arrives at the school he is concerned when he finds the front door unlocked. Those concerns come to a head when a battle ax flies off a suit of armor straight for him. Angel dodges the ax and flies at full speed down the hallway, hoping to catch his assailant red handed, but instead flies into a glass wall, knocking him out cold.<br />
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Back at the hospital Professor X is concerned for Angel's safety since he has lost communication with him. He and Cyclops drive back to the school as fast as they can, and upon entering hear Cerebro screaming as it has detected a mutant threat. Professor X is then attacked from behind by a mental wave distorter (apparently it's the only thing that Professor X cannot escape from), and is placed behind an invisible barrier. <br />
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Cyclops blasts the barrier with his optic ray, but it is reflected back at him. He regains his balance and sets off down the hallway, in full pursuit of his attacker, when he is plunged into darkness. His attacker taunts him in the dark as his optic blasts miss. Fed up with his attacker's jokes, he runs for the light switch, when he is hit with a cane and knocked out cold.<br />
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Beast is back to normal, and before they leave the hospital to head back to the mansion they check on Ice Man, who is not doing well at all. Knowing there is nothing they can do they rush to the mansion. Beast enters the mansion first, hoping to spare Marvel Girl any danger. As Beast rushes in he realizes he made a mistake when the walls, floor, and ceiling are all made of glass. Beast hurled himself in and now is moving so fast he can't stop himself. He slides down the hallway then disappears behind some sliding metal doors.<br />
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The X-Men, minus Ice Man, are then seen loaded into a steel block with a large balloon tied to it. Their assailant tells them that they are about to be launched 100,000ft into the air (into a place called "near space" also known as the upper atmosphere), where they will die once they consume all the oxygen in their container. The container door shuts and we see them lift off into the sky. The assailant enters the mansion just as Angel's parents pull into the driveway. They ring the doorbell and they are met by someone who they have never encountered before...but we have.<br />
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They are greeted at the front door of the mansion by MAGNETO!!!!!!<br />
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Professor X has arrived back in the city, specifically back at the TV studio where the very first sentinel they encountered suddenly stopped and collapsed to the ground motionless. To Xavier's luck, then sentinel is still there, lying motionless, with several people milling around it trying to figure out what to do with it.</div>
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We rejoin our heroes this issue as the battle ready mount of dirt was rising from the ground. The X-Men are being tossed about around the dirt and rubble, and Professor X is almost lost to a great chasm just off to the side of the mechanical mountain. Thankfully, and against Xavier's wishes, Angel flies in and saves Professor X, placing him safely on higher ground.<br />
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Now the X-Men have an advantage against the dangerous laser blasts coming from the evil lair. The decide to have Ice Man create a flat disc with two stalagmites rising from the base. Ice Man and Beast latch onto those large icicles, and with his most powerful blast charged and ready, Cyclops shoots his optic blast at the back of the ice disc, shooting the two mutants directly at the lair. Angel flies behind them to support them. Before they even have a chance to need support, Beast and Ice Man are captured by two large mechanical arms, and placed inside of a glass cube that suddenly fills with a green gas, knocking them out cold.<br />
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Just as Angel tries to follow the glass cube into the lair, a large jet of fire shoots out from the opening that the two mutants were pulled through, forcing him to retreat and report back to the X-Men.<br />
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Inside the lair, Dr. Trask is protesting heavily against the Sentinels, he tries bargaining with them, trying to explain how they were created for the good of mankind, not to enslave it. Dr. Trask must have forgotten that Sentinels have no emotions, are are operating under the order of the Master Mold only now.<br />
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When Dr. Trask is brought in front of the Master Mold, he is told that he will allow for them to study the mutants to learn more about them, or the Master Mold will attack a human city and destroy everything he can. <br />
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Outside, Professor X is hard at work, he uses his amazing telepathic powers to follow the energy of the laser beams shooting from the lair, and trace those beams back to see who is operating the guns. As luck would have it, he has figured out a way to incapacitate those sentinels as well. So moments after he traced the beam's energy, the guns have stopped firing as the sentinels have been incapacitated.<br />
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Just as the X-Men were seeing success, Beast is being brought into the Master Mold, and has been placed under the psycho-probe. This is a beam of light which, when shone on you, forces you to revel your every inner most secrets. Right on cue, Beast tells Dr. Trask and the Master Mold everything he knows.<br />
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Beast tells Dr. Trask how the X-Men are here to help humanity, and that really makes Dr. Trask feel like a jerk. Then Beast begins to talk about his past, and how he dealt with being a mutant from a young age. Long story short, he got picked on a lot until Professor X found him.<br />
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As Beast is spilling his guts, Cyclops, Marvel Girl, and Angel have blown up a gun and found their way inside the lair. Just as they feel they are on the path to success, they meet a sentinel who explains that they weren't expecting them, and that they will need to report to the Master Mold to see what should be done with them.<br />
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So - quick sidebar - the sentinel, who's sole programming is to destroy mutants, isn't sure what to do with a group of mutants when he finds them in his base...and has to go ask the leader of the sentinels, Master Mold, what to do with them. Good mutant killing robots must be hard to find these days.<br />
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As the X-Men follow this sentinel, they discover Ice Man trapped in an air tight glass box. They break him out and, after a short scuffle with the sentinel who doesn't understand his primary directive, are on their way to finding beast and the Master Mold himself.<br />
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Professor X projects his mind into the base and sees Beast singing like a canary, so he blocks his mind so he cannot speak anymore about the secret X-Men...but that is when the Master Mold detects Professor X's astral presence in the room with them, and uses a handful of micro-electric blasts to disable Xavier's astral body. Xavier flees the room, knowing that if he cannot make it back to his physical form, he will remain in a trance forever.<br />
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The Sentinels that are actually competent have banded together, and are pursuing the X-Men roaming around in their base. Ice Man creates an ice wall to buy them some time, and block their enemies from getting to them before they have a plan. However the sentinels have propulsion power built into their feet, and the sentinels fly at full speed into the ice wall, shattering it into a million cold pieces.<br />
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The X-Men are then forced to the ground by a heavy gravity ray which is emanating from a sentinel's chest. They are trapped!<br />
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Dr. Trask, now threatened with helping the Master Mold build new sentinels for them, realizes his mistake, and doesn't want to help them anymore. The sentinels do not accept his refusal, and take whisk him off to the room where sentinels are created.<br />
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After the team's difficult battle against The Juggernaut, the X-Men have taken to repairing the mansion as well as themselves. Professor X has the team all in physical therapy so that they can get back up to full fighting ability as quickly as possible. Thankfully Xavier decides that the team is all better, just as he is about to give the team some good news.<br />
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These special teenagers have worked hard and haven't had any time off in quite some time. Beast and Iceman head to their favorite beatnik cafe, Jean Grey is hopping on a train to home, The Angel is headed for home, and Cyclops...well he's still brooding as he preps for his vacation...which I imagine is just another place for him to brood.<br />
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However, as the good times are about to roll for the X-Men, there is another nefarious person about to threaten the very existence of the mutants, Dr. Bolivar Trask.<br />
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Dr. Trask is an anthropologist turned futuristic technician preaching hatred for mutant kind. He is convinced that the mutants are collaborating amongst one another and building their numbers so that they can overtake the human race...which he isn't too wrong about after all, that is pretty much exactly what The Brotherhood wants to do. Good thing they are somewhere in space!<br />
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After Dr. Trask's announcement, the press goes mad, and Professor X attempts to set the record straight, though he knows with humanity that the damage is probably already done. Professor X calls his local PBS and organizes a press conference where he and Dr. Trask can debate one another.<br />
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During the press conference, Professor X attempts to speak his peace about mutant-kind, hoping that humans will listen with open minds and put and end to their hatred. Too bad that plan isn't going to go over as well as he hoped it would. Dr. Trask interrupts Professor X and showcases his top of the line mutant protection solution...The Sentinels.<br />
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Though Dr. Trask is a victim of his own zeal. As he showcases his newest, top of the line creation, assuring everyone that they are under his complete control...the Sentinels turn on Dr. Trask. He is blasted with one of their hidden lasers and kidnapped by the rest of the team where they take him back to the lab where the Sentinels were created.<br />
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Professor X feels helpless as he can't use his powers against the mechanical menaces, as his powers only work against humans. So in a last ditch effort, he sends out a telepathic beacon, and calls for his X-Men!<br />
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The team, though separated, still all heard the call. They dropped what they were doing and rushed towards where they felt Professor X's mental beacon was coming from. Beast and Iceman arrive on the scene first, followed by Cyclops. As Angel soared quickly to his location, he encountered the group of Sentinels carrying the now unconscious Dr. Trask back to their lab. Not knowing that he was in danger, Angel moves in closer to get a better look. Then the Sentinels stop, as they detect another mutant. Several Sentinels break off from the pack, and pursue Angel.<br />
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As some sort of deus ex machina, Angel is forcibly pulled downward onto the roof of a moving train.<br />
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Marvel Girl sighs with relief as when she knows Angel is safe. She had just happened to look out the train's window and saw Angel about to get attacked. She telepathically lifts herself out the window and onto the top of the train and meets Angel and they fly off towards the beacon.<br />
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Back at the studio, Beast, Iceman, and Cyclops are facing a foe like never before. The Sentinel, using the powers of his mechanical brain, can outwit the X-Men's every advance against him. Not even Cyclops' optic blast can penetrate their armored exterior.<br />
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As luck would have it...the X-Men wouldn't need to fight the Sentinel for much longer, because as the team realized they were out of options, the Sentinel malfunctioned and fell over. The battle was over. Just then, Marvel Girl and Angel arrived on the scene.<br />
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Before the Sentinel went completely offline he uttered the word Master Mold, and Professor X was able to get a read of the location where the Sentinel wanted to retreat to.<br />
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At the lab the Sentinels are escorting Dr. Trask back to his lab, when a radar detector goes off. The Sentinels observe a car arriving near their property, and contained inside are the X-Men! As the X-Men stand around looking for where the Sentinel's base is, the ground shakes and a giant mechanical station wielding several guns rises from the ground. The whole base was contained under the ground!<br />
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Racism was still heavily present in daily society, and the X-Men, much like Martin Luther King Jr., wanted the mutants and the humans to co-exist in a peaceful world. Dr. Trask is more like McCarthy, wanting to find and expose all communists aka mutants. He even goes so far as to create a mutant killing machine he wanted to mass market and put into every home for protection.</div>
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From a current standpoint I feel this issue really hits two major fears happening right now. The first is obviously racism is still very present in our daily society, however, nowadays it's focused on the Middle East. We have been hearing politicians preach the dangers of the Middle East, the dangers of Muslims for sixteen years. We even have branded a slogan around it "The War on Terror". <br />
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Most recently though, the word automation has become dirty. People are starting to fear robots and AI coming in and taking jobs from people. It is an inevitable part of progress, one which I feel is very important, but to most people, people who can't see a future where humans aren't working the daily 9-5 shift it terrifies therm.<br />
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This also lives up to the classic trope in sci-fi, where the technology we create overthrows and overpowers us completely.<br />
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I think the story of the Sentinels is on point as a "classic sci-fi story".<br />
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I mentioned a few paragraphs above that I felt that robots taking human jobs was a good thing. Let me quickly clarify that I do not want robots to overthrown humanity. Personally, I don't see that as an issue. What I meant by my statement was, the more automation that we can bring to our daily lives, the more time it gives humanity as a whole to work on other projects. These projects can be personal, or they can be universal.<br />
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We need more art in the world, more music, I feel these things are what breathes life into humanity as a whole. It's what separates us from "lower forms", so people will have the time to focus on these things as automation increases in the work place. From a universal standpoint, that's where humanity really needs to focus.<br />
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If you read the news today, you'll see that climate change is all the rage, tensions are heightened on a global scale due to the political fire that has been lit. We read things like bees are being put on endangered species lists and the great coral reefs are dying at an insanely accelerated rate than we originally presumed. Humans are destroying the Earth faster than ever...and the craziest thing is that we have people in power denying that it's happening.<br />
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When you automate everything, you take away those barriers that people have in their daily lives, and you allow them all to work on projects which will benefit the greater good of humanity as a whole, rather than a few select humans who continually amass wealth.<br />
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Automation will change the face of humanity, as well as the placement of humanity in the universe. We need to start thinking that way and embracing it.</div>
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Professor X speaks to Juggernaut just long enough for the X-Men to find their footing again. Marvel Girl lifts Juggernaut in the air while Cyclops moves Xavier to safety and then uses his optic blast to bore a hole into the floor of the mansion. Marvel Girl then quickly drops The Juggernaut into the hole. However, they all know this won't hold him long.</div>
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Professor X and Marvel Girl dash off to his lab, and he instructs Ice Man and Beast to go out and find all of the components for his new Mento Helmet. This is a device Xavier has invented which will intensify Xavier's brain waves (you know, like that other machine that he built...Cerebro). After Xavier puts the helmet on he sends a telepathic message out into the city of New York. A message that is intercepted by plane pilots, kids in their HAM radio hobby class, and two very special New Yorkers, Matt Murdock and Johnny Storm. You might know them as the famous Daredevil and Human Torch.</div>
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As Xavier is beaming out his messages, Juggernaut explains to himself really, for the fifteenth time, that he has the powers of Cyttorak, and is unstoppable! Juggernaut starts punching foot holes and hand holes into the sides of the pit he's in, and climbs up toward the top where Angel and Cyclops are waiting for him. Cyclops is shooting his optic blast into the hole, which also limits his vision. Neither Angel nor Cyclops see Juggernaut tunnel just underneath Cyke, and are caught off-guard when he bursts through the floor underneath Cyclops.</div>
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Cyclops then directs his optic blast at The Juggernaut while the Angel flies around trying to find his best vantage point to attack. However, The Juggernaut doesn't allow this to happen for long. He grabs hold of Angel and throws him in front of Cyclops' beam. Luckily Cyclops was able to dim the beam's intensity, merely leaving Angel stunned.</div>
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The Human Torch arrives at the mansion just as Juggernaut and Professor X are about to confront one another. Xavier instructs the Human Torch to fly around and distract the Juggernaut while he telepathically calls for Angel. The Human Torch then ignites his flames to maximum, blinding Juggernaut where he stands. Angel, who has now had enough time to recover his energy, swoops down and removes The Juggernaut's helmet, which we learned is a psionic helmet which blocks Xavier's mental powers.</div>
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So Juggernaut has a pretty interesting origin story and relation to the X-Men, but his reasons for wanting to obliterate Xavier are rather silly. Cain Marko was a dick growing up, and Charles Xavier was a person who pursued extracurricular activities and excelled in sports due to his powers. Cain Marko let his jealous of Xavier consume him because he wanted Xavier's trophies?</div>
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These issues I would put on part with issues four and five where we first meet The Brotherhood. It's always awesome when the X-Men get to just sit there and duke it out with a baddy. I also like these issues, because I feel this is where the artwork really gets a chance to shine. They really make each panel interesting and impactful, their expressions of motion and emotion are so well focuses. These are the issues that put artists like Jack Kirby in the "all time great" category.</div>
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I also really dug that we got introduced to Daredevil and Human Torch both in this issue. Again, what we are continually seeing here in these first thirteen issues so far is Marvel building this world of mutants around them, and then showing how everyone plays in the other's backyard. Daredevil has the slums (Hell's Kitchen), the Fantastic Four have the Manhattan and more upscale areas, and the X-Men have upstate New York. </div>
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One thing I just can't get over in these books is how Xavier or Magneto, or anyone really, just knows how to make all these crazy contraptions that boost mental power or restrict mental power. I mean you don't find that technology in books. I understand that they are smarter than the average bear, but it is like they don't even struggle to think about this stuff. It's like Xavier says "Hmm, I sense a growing threat...I better build something. I'll need a telephone receiver, some wires, a paper clip, the souls of my students, and a chin strap...shit's about to get weird."</div>
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Was Xavier the inspiration for MacGuyver?</div>
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X-Men issue 11 ended with Cerebro beeping like wild as "the most powerful threat the X-Men will ever face" was discovered. Issue 12 carries over with that story, and we find the X-Men rushing into Professor X's office to see what all the commotion is about. While Xavier is happy to explain the issue to the rest of the team, Cyclops is more worried that the team has entered the room and found out about Cerebro when they weren't supposed to know. As we're found through previous issues, Cyclops has his own set of priorities...mostly just not pissing off Xavier.</div>
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As Professor X tells the team they are all in grave danger, he sends them out onto the grounds of the mansion to fortify it from intruders. So the team rushes out and gets to work. Iceman builds thick ice walls, Cyclops blasts a trench in the ground to which Beast and Marvel Girl lay wire down in. Cyclops also hollows out logs to which are thrust into the ground and grenades are tossed into.<br />
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With the mansion fortified, Professor X turns off Cerebro, and sits the team down to tell them about the terrifyingly unstoppable force which is headed straight for them. Kind of like those episodes of Family Guy where Peter tells a story to the family amidst robbers breaking into their house.<br />
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Professor X takes us back to the time of the atomic blast testing. His father died in the blast, and at his funeral, he talks about his father's partner, Dr.Marko, who is consoling Charles' mother. Charles detested the man as he could read his thoughts, and knew he was only after his family's money and power. Charles' mother however, wasn't wise enough to see through Dr. Marko. She married him, and by then it was too late.</div>
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Shortly after Dr. Marko and Charles Xavier's mother were married, Charles' new step-brother enters through the door of the mansion. He's a bully, and terrorizes Charles mercilessly. His name is Cain Marko, and at the time, he was powerless...and a complete dickbag.<br />
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Xavier stops many times through his story as the unseen force breaks through the barriers the team setup to protect the mansion one by one, but he manages to continue his story.<br />
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Charles overhears a conversation between Dr. Marko and Cain Marko about how Dr. Marko helped kill Charles' father. That's when Charles intervenes. A little roughhousing ensues, and several vials with explosive liquids dump over and mix setting Charles' mansion alight with fire.</div>
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There are several more pages about how Cain Marko was a bully to Charles, and how Charles' mother died, but it doesn't really get interesting until Charles and Cain go to Korea for the war. During the shelling, Charles sees Cain disappear into a cave to hide from the battle. Charles, not wanting his step-brother to get court marshalled, follows him into the cave to get him to come out.<br />
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So I proposed that Charles Xavier got his powers from an atomic blast that his parents were working on, and when he gained his powers he also lost his ability to walk. I also proposed that the radiation from the bomb imbedded itself into the DNA of the workers on the atomic bomb project, and we now have a generation of mutant offspring due to the radiation mutating the DNA of the children and since they have been born with this mutant DNA their powers come to light.<br />
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<li>Xavier didn't receive his powers from an atomic bomb blast - he was born with them.</li>
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So, I guess I'm wrong more than I'm right, but it was at least fun to speculate for a while! <br />
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It was also interesting to see a little more human side to Charles in this issue. He isn't just some odd duck that sits stewing, cloistered up in his office as he waits for Cerebro to cry out to him...or at least he wasn't at one point in his life. Charles seemed to be fairly normal, even had a sibling to beat the crap out of him every once and a while.<br />
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The X-Men receive an emergency alert from Professor X and they all rush to his call, only to be greeted with a strange radar beam coming from a massive machine. This is Xavier's second way to detect the presence of mutants, Cerebro is the first. This method is not as reliable as Cerebro though, because just as the radar beam is about to take the shape of a mutant, the image distorts and explodes.</div>
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Not far away from all this commotion in the mansion, an older looking gentlemen is about to rent a room from a very fast talking, no nonsense landlady. His odd appearance is quickly forgotten as he hands her a massive wad of money, and he ventures off to wander the city streets. He calls himself The Stranger.</div>
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After walking about a block he is amazed and annoyed at the fact that people wait so long to cross the street, so he decides to levitate and just walk right over it. When he sees all the astonished looks he gets from strangers, he high tails it down some streets, until he feels an odd calling to enter an apartment building by passing through it's outer brick wall. When he appears inside he is greeted by The Brotherhood.</div>
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The X-Men are out patrolling the city looking for this new mutant, but unsure of what they look like, so they resort to asking people around town. Cyclops overhears some police speaking about the odd occurrence of a man walking over a street, when suddenly the cops start to harass him for wearing sunglasses, stating that "only a guy on the lam wouldn't remove sunglasses". The police pull off his sunglasses and jump back as Cykes optic beam shoots out toward the ground. Thankfully Beast is there to grasp Cyclops by the shoulders and whisk him away into one of Iceman's ice tubes, and back toward the rest of the team.</div>
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The Brotherhood have asked The Stranger to join their cause, and are now flexing their mutant muscle and giving The Stranger a taste of their power. Magneto calls all metal objects from the room to wrap themselves around The Stranger, then Mastermind quickly makes The Stranger feel as if he is trapped at the bottom of the ocean, then standing beside an erupting volcano.</div>
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The Stranger doesn't like these games, so he decides to show The Brotherhood his power. He breaks through Mastermind's illusions, and then casts a power beam at him and turns Mastermind into stone! As the now stone Mastermind falls through the floor, a shopkeeper from below calls out for help. The X-Men hear his call and arrive on the scene.</div>
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The spat between the teams quickly ends with Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver expressing how tired they are of this debt they owe Magneto, and decide they have paid their debt and end their time in The Brotherhood. The X-Men offer them a spot on their team, but they decline, stating that they just want to go home back to central Europe.</div>
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The X-Men hop into their third helicopter, this time with Professor X, and Xavier guides them to the location of Magneto, Toad, and The Stranger. They land in a park, and find Magneto and Toad lying on the ground wrapped in an anti-magnetic membrane. Apparently these cocoons aren't just limiting their mutant powers.</div>
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The Stranger appears again and explains that he is a stranger from the stars. His people are greatly interested in mutants, and so The Stranger journeys from planet to planet looking for mutants to take back home to be studied. These cocoons he has placed around Magneto and Toad will prepare and protect them on the intergalactic journey they are about to embark on...never to return.</div>
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Well, this sure was an issue. Though it wasn't the most exciting issue I've read (granted it was better than anything involving the blob, or last issue with Ka-Zar), it actually is a really important issue. This issue sets up the X-Men's cosmic universe.</div>
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This expands the X-Men's villain threat. Before this incident, all the villains were Earthbound human mutants. Now, the X-Men realize that they will face threats that won't be from this planet, or even this galaxy, and there is the potential that they will be immensely under prepared for the power that they bring with them when they attack.</div>
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The conflict between the two teams was very reminiscent of cold war era tactics. These two super powers were constantly pushing each other. One team, normally the Brotherhood, making bold threats, and the X-Men retaliating and stopping those threats from happening. So after quite a bit of back and forth, I believe that everyone was looking forward to meeting some new threats against the X-Men...who knew they would be so bold as to add in cosmic strangers!</div>
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I wasn't a huge fan of this issue at first. Then as I thought about it, and I realized just how important this stranger was to shaping the X-Men book, I really enjoyed it a lot more. It's still not Stan or Jack's best in any way, but the significance of what this issue will play on future books I feel is big.</div>
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After returning to America, and having a few week's break between battles, the X-Men are back in their mandatory, post-graduate training program. Professor X is back at the mansion, and all seems to be getting back to normal. The X-Men are getting antsy for a new mission though, and thankfully, Angel is about to find them one. After being harshly scolded by Cyclops for missing his Danger Room session, Angel alerts the team's attention to the news broadcast he's watching. <br />
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A science team in Antarctica was ambushed by a man wearing only a furry loin cloth and a saber-tooth tiger! Though the science team was armed, no people were hurt in the incident...however, there are no clues as to who, or what, this loin clothed man and his pet were. Professor X tells the team that he did get word from Washington about the incident, but that since Cerebro did not alert him to anything, that this man is certainly not a mutant.<br />
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The X-Men arrive in Antarctica shortly after Xavier gives his blessing, and the team stumbles upon a large crevasse in the ice. Cyclops attempts to gauge how deep the ice is by shooting his optic blast down to the bottom, but instead of finding out how deep the crevasse is, they are instead surprised as a geyser of snow and ice erupts behind them, and a hidden cave is revealed.<br />
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Without a second of hesitation, the X-Men descend down into the icy cave, only to appear in a warm climated, prehistoric land. Angel throws off his heavy overcoat and spreads his wings to go scout the land, when the team is attacked by a group of angry pterodactyls! <br />
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Unsure on how best to face this foe, Cyclops resorts to using his optic blast against them, but that only alerts another foe to their presence...the swamp men!<br />
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The swamp men come riding in on carnivorous birds of prey, and attack them with bombs filled with volcano gas, which puts the team fast to sleep. The swamp men kidnap Marvel Girl just as a loin clothed hero and his pet saber-tooth tiger chase them away.<br />
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The man calls himself Ka-Zar, and his pet is known as Zabu. He is cautious around the X-Men, and with a very large language barrier (of potentially thousands of years), he sees the X-Men as a threat to himself and his pet. A small skirmish erupts between the two, but is resolved when they both realize that they are enemies of the swamp men (maybe the swamp men were named Martha). Also, Ka-Zar fights off a cave man at some point in there too...cavemen don't like Ka-Zar because he is hairless.<br />
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The Angel is still off scouting when he finds some brontosaurus' hanging out eating veggies, when a net is tossed over him and he is also kidnapped by the swamp men! Gasp! Back at home base, the swamp men put Angel next to Jean Grey and take them to the top of a pyramid structure and release a T-Rex from its bowels. Yikes!<br />
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Just when we think that there is no hope for Marvel Girl and Angel, the rest of the X-Men arrive with Ka-Zar, Zabu...and a heard of mastodons! They break into the swamp men's home base, and apparently fight so hard they they couldn't draw or write about it because it was so intense.<br />
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I feel like with each issue we get this great story line that progresses the X-Men and really shows why this was such a cutting edge book...and then we get these issues. I mean this is really a Tarzan ripoff mixed with Journey to the Center of the Earth in every way. This was definitely an issue where they phoned it in.<br />
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Actually it started okay - my interest was really piqued when they went to Antarctica and discovered this hidden cave leaving to a prehistoric world. Then once I saw the world and it just turned into 90% fight, 10% explore...and even the exploring wasn't the greatest.<br />
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Not a few minutes into his recovery, Cyclops' mental state is rocked by a telepathic message from their former leader Professor X! The professor informs Scott that he has found Lucifer's secret lair, and that should anything happen to him, the X-Men need to find Lucifer and stop him at all costs. Professor X also informs Scott that this foe is particularly important to Xavier, because Lucifer is the reason that he is paralyzed!</div>
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Lucifer, deep in his cave, detects Xavier traversing the dangerous cave with aid from his spelunking specific wheelchair. He sends a dust devil after Xavier, and brings him right to his lair. Xavier acts quickly, and surprisingly, as he draws a pistol and fires at Lucifer. Lucifer quickly begs Xavier to stop, explaining to him that should anything happen to Lucifer, causing his heart to cease beating, the world will be in immense danger.</div>
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Lucifer activates a massive energy beam, and shoots it directly at the X-Men's location. Professor X mentally projects himself and speeds off to warn the team...and he gets there just in time. Just as Professor X warns the team, they jump out of the way and the beam of power explodes where they were just standing.</div>
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As Xavier mentally explains the situation regarding Lucifer and his bomb, The Avengers stumble upon the mutants. The Avengers explain they are looking for a great evil and are preparing to destroy it. In typical X-Men fashion, Cylops explains that they should hear the X-Men out on why they shouldn't destroy Lucifer...but they do that while performing a full on attack to stop the Avengers, giving them no time to discuss the situation.</div>
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Back underground in Lucifer's lair Professor X wracks his brain to try and think of a way to stop Lucifer without affecting his heart. He decides that it would be best to use his great mental powers to probe Lucifer's brain. With great precision Xavier targets Lucifer's medulla oblongata...and with great success, Lucifer falls to the ground unconscious.</div>
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The X-Men, guided mentally by Professor X, enter a large cave system and find Lucifer's cave. Xavier explains the damage this bomb could cause, and why they need to find a way to disarm it. So Cyclops and Xavier climb up the bomb and, using Cyclops' optic beam on full blast, they are able to blast out the detonator inside of the bomb and disarm it. The bomb, and Lucifer's plan is now totally useless.</div>
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Lucifer wakes as Xavier releases his hold on Lucifer's medulla oblongata. He is upset to see that ten years of his life has been disrupted so quickly. The X-Men then allow Lucifer to leave his cave warning that should he ever try something like this again that they will be watching. Xavier also reminds Lucifer that though his plan is foiled, the two are not in any way even. For though Lucifer lost ten years of his life's work, Xavier has lost the use of his legs for the rest of his life.</div>
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Wow, big issue! I'm sure that when this one hit the shelves back in the 60s that they weren't kept in stock long. This is the X-Men's first run in with another super team. <br />
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While The Avengers are cool, let's direct our focus back to the X-Men, more specifically to Xavier.<br />
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I had proposed a theory in the first issue of X-Men about why Xavier was paralyzed...well I was totally wrong. Xavier was not paralyzed in an accident during the testing of the first atom bomb, but was paralyzed in some unknown fashion by Lucifer. However, I still believe that Xavier gained his powers by an accident that happened with the atom bomb.<br />
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Xavier did confirm that there was an accident during that time period that affected him. So since we know that it isn't his legs, we can only deduce that it was him gaining his mutant powers.<br />
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Changing gears slightly, I love how the X-Men have this shoot first and explain the situation while shooting, hoping that the other side would see reason. How American of them.<br />
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I found it a little odd that Xavier went in search of Lucifer, who is apparently this great and powerful villain he has a personal grudge with...but they never explained if he had powers or not. Sure he had a bomb wired to his heart which would detonate in Antarctica...even though he and the bomb were in the Balkans (I suspect a tunnel through the Earth to reach Antarctica or some logic like that behind this).<br />
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Also - Xavier's plan to incapacitate Lucifer sounds great. Like it sounds like a solid plan. His plan is "oh man I better not mess with his heart, so I'll kick his brain in the balls. That'll stop him!" So Xavier carefully chooses, of all the parts of the brain, the medulla oblongata. Little did Xavier know that the medulla oblongata helps regulate breathing, blood vessel function, digestion, sneezing, swallowing, and oh yeah <i>heart function</i>! It's also what makes alligators so ornery. <br />
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I also love that Xavier can determine to pinpoint the medulla oblongata and incapacitate it, but then when he goes to check on Lucifer's heart to see if it's still beating he says "His heartbeat seems regular, but I am no physician."<br />
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So let me get this straight Professor. You're comfortable monkeying around in people's brains and playing with different areas and can expertly navigate the brain so as not to totally lobotomize someone...but listening to a heart requires you to suddenly have a PHD? Something isn't right in your logic dude.<br />
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So using his Bobby Boucher logic, Xavier almost destroys apparently Antarctica from a friggin cave in the Balkans.<br />
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I can see how this issue is an important one for Jack Kirby art collectors. Two of his most famously drawn teams are facing off. This means there are lots of awesome pages of panels with that amazing Kirby action. <br />
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To go on a Jack Kirby tangent, I love how Beast always looks like he is break-dancing when he moves in panels. His legs are always flailing outwards as he props himself on one hand. Beast loves break-dance fighting. Just a funny thing to note.<br />
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Issue 10 is next...holy smokes I've actually done this every day for 10 days...I'm proud of myself!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01064336946083789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597815608133576229.post-85757541103661490302017-02-25T08:00:00.000-06:002017-02-25T08:00:19.132-06:00X-Men Issue 8 - The Uncanny Threat of Unus The Untouchable!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Alright! We get a break from The Brotherhood and back to expanding the mutant universe...I hope.<br />
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After a particular grueling training session Cyke gives the team the afternoon off. The Beast and Iceman decide to go into Greenwich Village again to blow off some steam and relax. Just before they reach their first destination, they spot a crowd of people looking up at a boy stuck on top of a water tower on top of a building.</div>
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Not wanting to be detected, The Beast lands back on the ground and darts off with Iceman. The group of people, even after just watching him save that boy, somehow get the idea that because The Beast ran off without showing his face, that he is an evil mutant and that saving the boy was just a ruse to trick them into thinking he was nice (assumptions and hunches have a 99% accuracy in X-Men books).</div>
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As Cyclops finished speaking with Professor X, Cerebro went off again alert him (via a very informative light one can only assume) that a new mutant was on the loose in the city. So the X-Men hop into their <i>second</i> helicopter and fly into the city to see what is going on.</div>
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Xavier is looking for the devil (Lucifer is the fallen angel of light who became Satan after being cast out of heaven...we don't know who or what Lucifer is in the comics yet).</div>
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I mean honestly that's kind of how these books go right now. Without Xavier there to use his Obi-Wan Kenobi mind tricks to pull them out of every tight spot they get themselves into the X-Men turn into a superhero version of the TV show House. Instead of using their minds, they first use their fists and just run into fights without doing any research on the mutant.</div>
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This usually allows Jack Kirby to draw about 4 pages of straight fighting panels where the X-Men narrate what they are doing. That seems like a really shit tactic. I mean, sometimes they yell in code, like when Cyclops called out training maneuvers like he was setting up a basketball play...but then he instantly tells them what that maneuver is! I don't think they know that bad guys can listen too. I mean none of these mutant villains have been noted as deaf yet. So it's no wonder they get their asses handed to them repeatedly.</div>
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I also love how Beast is a critical member of the team, until he quits...and really, nobody tries to keep him around. It's like Beast said "I quit!" and after he left the room Scott whispered "No, wait, don't..." to himself, but then he went to Xavier with a story about how he really fought to keep Beast on the team. Sounds like what a sales manager does.</div>
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If Cyclops would have given Beast a chance to just say "Guys, I figured this out, if we totally make him stronger, his repellent powers will be so extreme he won't be able to eat and we will win!" Bam! Problem solved!</div>
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Honestly, Unus should go into finding a way to harvest his power and selling it. I mean he essentially has a really cool force field around him at all times. He would have been a millionaire very quickly. Or, Mastermind should have taken him back to the Brotherhood and found a way to harness his powers. Now all the Brotherhood would have a personal force field. Dude they would be unstoppable then!</div>
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Oh no! The Blob is back...and he's teamed up with The Brotherhood.<br />
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Today is a very special day for the X-Men! They have all just graduated from Professor X's prep school curriculum. As the X-Men become more self-sustaining, Professor X also decides that it's time he let's his team of marvelous mutant operate on their own for a while.</div>
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Xaiver tells the X-Men that he will be leaving soon, and that he will be appointing one of the team as leader of the X-Men while he is gone...surprise, it's Cyclops. </div>
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After being appointed the leader of the X-Men, Professor X shows Scott a special project he has been working on for quite some time. Inside a room, Cyclops witnesses a cluttered mess of steel and wires. Xaiver explains that he has created a powerful ESP machine which will be used for detecting new mutant brain waves to help locate other mutants.</div>
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He calls this device "Cerebro".</div>
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After Xavier leaves, Cyclops sits alone in Xavier's old office brooding at the sudden understanding of just how lonely leadership can be. The rest of the team set off to explore Greenwich Village to celebrate their graduation, Scott stayed behind to monitor Cerebro.</div>
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While the team is out, and Scott sits quietly, Magneto is up to no good. He's gone to the circus, but not to play games or ride rides...to recruit. The mutant he's after is right in the middle of a performance where he shows off his mutant strength. This man is called The Blob.</div>
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We last met The Blob in issue 3. The X-Men tried to recruit him, but instead he brainwashed a group of carnies to raid the Mansion before Xavier put a mind block on him and all the other people involved in the raid.</div>
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A small fight ensues as Magneto puts the carnival barker inside of an animal cage. The Blob gets Magneto into a headlock, but Magneto uses his powers of magnetism and forces The Blob off of him, knocking him into a trailer...unblocking The Blob's memory.</div>
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The Blob suddenly remembers how much he hates the X-Men and joins Magneto and The Brotherhood.</div>
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Magneto somehow radio's the X-Men and tells them the exact address that he and The Brotherhood will be at. So, apparently not suspecting a trap, the X-Men hop into a helicopter and fly to the location. When they arrive, Magneto rips the helicopter to shreds with the X-Men inside.</div>
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Angel grabs onto a broken helicopter blade and charges at The Blob...who stands there and takes the hit unflinching. Try as they might, the X-Men cannot do anything to harm The Blob, let alone slow him down...that is, until Magneto unleashes a torrent of torpedoes at the super heroes.</div>
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The team dodges and avoids the torpedoes while The Beast, caught in The Blob's grasp, throws a handful of mud into his face and takes him by surprise. The X-Men make use of this advantage and knock him to the ground, then freeze him in a block of ice.</div>
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The team hides behind The Blob, who takes the full force of the torpedoes...and doesn't even get scratched. When the smoke has cleared, Magneto and his Brotherhood have escaped, this time in their Magna-Car...a car run by magnetism (come on, you should know this by now).</div>
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So another Blob issue, another issue where The Brotherhood stir up some shit and then run away when it gets rough. However, something really important was introduced this issue. Cerebro.</div>
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As things calm down at the mansion, the X-Men get to sit down for a relaxed dinner together, where even Cyclops has a jovial attitude. Conversely, The Brotherhood is back to the drawing board, preparing for their next assault. Magneto can't afford to be thwarted again, and the stress is putting him on edge. He is so on edge that when Mastermind accidentally projects an image of Cyclops near Magneto, he fires one of his most powerful beam weapons through the projection and down the hall. Quicksilver, ever present of his sister's whereabouts races the beam down the hall and get's his sister, The Scarlet Witch, out of the way just in time.</div>
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Back at the mansion the team is eating dessert, when Xavier opens his paper to read a story about a new possible mutant called the Sub-Mariner. Xavier sees much promise in this man, and deems it his quest to locate the Sub-Mariner before The Brotherhood does. So Professor X retires to his study, and projects his consciousness out of his body and into the sea.</div>
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Honestly my favorite part of this issue was the last page. It was almost like a "letter to the editor" style page where readers wrote in. Many did feel like plants, but hey, we're six issues in, I'm sure that these were real fans. So rather than have me rant today, I'll just let you read that last page in full.</div>
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Coming off an exciting issue 4, we'll continue the adventure of the X-Men as they battle The Brotherhood without their leader!<br />
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Xavier is powerless. The team's morale is low. The Brotherhood might have the upper hand this issue.<br />
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The X-men bring Professor X back home to the mansion so he can get some much needed rest. However, their time to brood over what has happened to them is short lived, as Jean Grey remembers that her parents will be visiting the mansion today at the Professors request.<br />
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The team cleans up, dons their homo sapiens attire, and gracefully greets the Greys at the front door with Warren Worthington taking the lead and charming the parents. As they give a quick tour of the mansion to The Grey's, Cyclops gets locked in the Danger Room by accident and has to destroy many of the obstacles that were meant for The Beast's training with his optic blast.<br />
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Pleased with meeting everyone, The Grey's drive off toward their final destination. They don't notice the man cloaked in brown attire hiding just out of sight. Mastermind is looking for the X-Men's location...but isn't having any luck.<br />
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Frustrated, Magneto sends Quicksilver to pick him up in a rocket powered by his magnetism and bring him back to Asteroid M. This is the base for The Brotherhood. This space base is where Magneto and his team derive an ingenious plan to discover where the X-Men's base is. They plant Toad in a televised track and field race.<br />
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A disguised Toad leaps over all the runners in the race, and jump back into costume to go and speak to this new mutant. When they arrive at the field, the crowd is rioting against the mutant racer, and the X-Men intervene to save him. It isn't until they get a chance to speak to the racer, and pull off the mask that he is wearing, that they see he is really Toad, Magnetos right hand man.<br />
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The Brotherhood strike against the X-Men again with full force at the train station in hopes to not only reclaim their counterpart, but to also gain more intel on the X-Men...to their surprise they not only get the upper hand of the team, they actually kidnap Angel!<br />
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On Asteroid M, Magneto uses light and sound to torture Angel into giving information on the X-Men's base. Angel, not wanting to put anyone else in danger keeps his lips sealed.<br />
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Iceman creates an ice tunnel to prevent Cyclops from floating off into space, and Angel soars through the tunnel to catch him. The team make it back to another escape pod as Asteroid M explodes, and land back on Earth safe and sound.<br />
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When they return back to the mansion to give Professor X a report. They find that he is in good health and good spirits. He explains that they need not report to him, as his was with them the entire time. Xavier had in fact never lost his powers at all, he merely faked his powerlessness to put his exemplary team through their final test.<br />
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First off - dick move Xavier, real dick move. In issue 5 we establish that The Brotherhood is one of the most fearsome teams that pose the biggest threat to humankind, and <i>he</i> starts the feud which Magneto will never break...then he just totally abandons the team when things get tough??? With leadership like this, who needs enemies!<br />
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The X-Men were left defeated on many levels after issue 4, going into issue 5 they almost seemed hopeless. I am pretty sure Cyclops probably contemplating ending it all since he takes even lighthearted stuff so seriously. Then they find out that Xaiver was "joking" and we get a freeze frame sitcom ending from the 80s? Wow. I don't even know where to go with this other than just calling out that Xavier is a dick.<br />
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Also - what the hell was Magneto before he was a super villain? He can create all these crazy machines, he knows how to get nuclear weapons easily, and now he has a flipping asteroid?! Not only that, but if we look at the logic I mean he would have had to build all the facilities on that asteroid himself, as well as put in an artificial gravity system and oxygen network. I mean, this is pretty advanced stuff. I have a theory.<br />
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We don't currently know where or how Magneto gained his powers, but based off what we've learned about him from the couple of issues that he has been in, I think that Magneto is a former NASA employee.<br />
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At this point in the history of homo sapiens, NASA was originally working on Project Mercury at the time. This was NASA's first man-in-space program. They had objectives to orbit a manned spacecraft around Earth, to investigate man's ability to function in space, and to recover both man and spacecraft successfully.<br />
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So here is what I am thinking. Since work on this project started many years before, I believe that Magneto was an engineer at NASA working on Project Mercury. He most likely helped design the space craft, as well as worked on several ideas on what man would need in space to function properly. One of those things being gravity. Through his experiments he learned how to achieve artificial gravity...but NASA claimed his experiments were too risky to implement into Project Mercury.<br />
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At this point, we can assume that Magneto had his powers of magnetism. He was disgruntled, holding a massive grudge against homo sapiens, so he started to destroy them. His raid in issue one wasn't just to threaten humanity, but also to gather government quality supplies from the Cape. So in issue one I believe his attack against the Cape really was a red herring. Magneto had already taken all the supplies that he required to build his base on Asteroid M...the attack just covered up the fact that the supplies were missing.<br />
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As Magneto sails back to The Brotherhood's fortified island in his newly acquired freighter, The Angel soars high overhead and sees the seemingly unmanned vessel and takes a closer look...neither mutant sees one another. What seems like an odd but otherwise normal occurrence means a lot to Professor X.</div>
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Magneto booby-traps a door with a bomb, and arms a nuclear bomb to detonate and destroy the entire island of Santo Marco just in case. The X-Men storm headstrong at the door, and Professor X realizes too late the dangers which lie behind the door. Before Beast can enter and trigger the booby-trap, Xavier throws himself in front of him and takes the full force of the explosion. This is a dire mistake for Xavier because the explosion has caused him to lose all of his mutant powers! Gasp!</div>
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Now <i>this</i> is the type of X-Men issue that I've been waiting for! Not only do we get to see the altercation which clearly defines the reason why Professor X and Magneto are mortal enemies, we also get to establish a team of bad guys (many of whom are still popular to this day), as well as start to treat these homo superiors with a little more respect because they were able to more than just rob a bank.</div>
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In fact, Magneto makes some really ballsy moves! First he steals a freighter ship, then overthrows an entire country's government and amasses their army to fight for him. I mean, all in the manner of what I can only assume is a few short days. That really shows you what this guy can do when he is determined.</div>
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This issue really makes the X-Men continue to have that "flavor of the week" style storytelling we're used to in a lot of TV shows (particularly season 1). We can see they are developing the plot, but they want to build a world around it. So Magneto is absolutely the overall plot point for the comic, while our "one off" books like Issues 2 and 3 are the fluff that makes this all seem more commonplace.</div>
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In issue three we meet a villain whose power could finally fell the X-Men! Will they be able to stand up to and survive against The Blob?<br />
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The X-Men are riding a wave of success after the defeat of The Vanisher. Their confidence as a team is growing, and with the help of Professor X's rigorous training program, they are becoming stronger each and every day. We get another sneak peek into said training program in this issue, until Professor X detects the presence of another mutant nearby.<br />
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He dispatches the team to go out and look for the newly detected mutant, in casual clothes, so as not to draw too much attention or tip someone off to their presence. The team doesn't know who they are looking for, but Xavier uses his telepathic powers to see through his team's eyes and help guide them in the right direction.<br />
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Warren Worthington sweeps Jean Grey off her feet and into his car, where they roar off in pursuit of the mutant. The other team members split up and scour the city.<br />
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Iceman thinks he finds the mutant burning a piece of paper with his powers, but it's really a guy holding a magnifying glass under the sun.<br />
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The Beast thinks he sees a man standing on air, but it's really a worker standing on a protective glass case for a business' sign.<br />
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Cyclops ends up at the circus where he thinks he finds the mutant using a rifle to shoot targets accurately without looking...but he really finds a charlatan booth owner who is tricking patrons into playing his game...then Xavier tells Cyclops that he is close to the mutant. That's when Cyclops hears the Carnival Barker's call...introducing The Blob.<br />
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The Blob is an incredibly fat man, who can root himself into place to become immobile, and his skin is impenetrable, even bullets can't penetrate it! After watching The Blob's show off his talents to the public, he approaches him privately in his tent.<br />
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Cyclops and the rest of the team get The Blob back to the mansion where Professor X runs him through many tests to determine if he is in fact a mutant. Once Xavier feels confident in the fact that The Blob is a mutant, he offers him a place on the team...but The Blob refuses.<br />
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Professor X fears that The Blob will revolt, especially now that he has the knowledge of not only where the X-Men's mansion is, but he also knows their true identities and powers. Xavier works quickly and builds an Electronic Mass Influencer. This EMI device will intensify Professor X's thoughts so he can alter the memories of multiple people at once.<br />
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Just as the X-Men feel they are prepared to attack...the realize quickly that they weren't ready to defend. Outside the mansion The Blob stands on the front lawn with an angry mob of carnival workers and circus animals. A fight ensues, pushing the X-Men to the very brink of their powers, before Xaiver activated his EMI device and wipes the memory of The Blob and the carnival workers, sending them back to their lives before this knowledge came to them.<br />
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<span style="color: white;">I know that not every issue of every comic is going to be fantastic...but this one was particularly rough to read. I'm not really sure what else I can say about this one. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">I like the idea of The Blob being a circus freak, I mean that was real for a long time. However, the fact that he was able to quickly just convince everyone to fight the X-Men within the span of a couple of panels, because he was now "in control" was weak.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Also - how did the X-Men seriously not notice this angry mob of carnies with elephants, apes, and giraffes walking from the circus in the city to their front lawn???</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">All that aside there are a few important things that are setup here.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">First of all, this is the first comic where Scott Summers' brooding and all too serious attitude is addressed by Professor X. Cyclops was always seen as a bit of a stick in the mud as the X-Men. He's the Lawful Good, the one headstrong character to understood the gravity of the team's mission, and took his responsibilities very seriously. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">One of the most important romances in the X-Men is also setup in this issue as well. We start to see that Scott starts falling for Jean Grey...and more importantly that Jean sees him very differently from the other members of the team.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">BUT...we also learn that Professor X loves Jean Grey as well! Learning this makes me call into question Xavier's motives for bringing Jean on board. Did Xavier know who she was when he sent her that mental invitation? Or did it just happen to be dumb luck that Jean was pretty? </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">All good questions, and hopefully we'll get some answers in issue 4!</span></div>
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The second issue of X-Men is here, and we've got a new villain to fight...The Vanisher!<br />
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This week our team, ready for anything since their encounter with their first mutant villain Magneto, deals with their rising fame as well as an all new mutant villain The Vanisher.<br />
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The Vanisher is another homo superior who has the ability to teleport to anywhere he can think of. If you think about it, that is a really amazing power. I mean, as far as this issues goes, nobody has set up any sort of limitations to this, like how Nightcrawler's BAMF power works. As far as we are aware, The Vanisher can think of Hawaii, even though he's never been (as far as we know) and POOF! he's in Hawaii.<br />
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Or maybe he could think of being inside of a bank vault...I'm just saying...loophole to your whole story Marvel...loophole.<br />
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So what does this Vanisher do? Well Vanisher needs money, much like all super villains, but he doesn't want to get one of those "jobs" people have, so he decides to rob a bank. No joke, he robs a bank by telling cops that he's going to rob a bank. So the cops take him to a bank, thinking this is all a joke, and have the bank manager give the Vanisher a ton of money then laugh at how he will disappear with it...and he does! Shock!<br />
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Again - why Marvel doesn't just have him think his way into a bank vault totally unexpected is beyond me...but these were written for kids...so maybe I need to be a little more sympathetic. At least he doesn't arrive at the Pentagon attempting to steal the Continental Defense Plans, and when he acquires them teleport to the <i>front steps of the freaking Pentagon where everyone can see him, right? RIGHT????</i><br />
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Wrong, that's <i>exactly</i> what he does! This is also where he encounters our friends the X-Men for the first time as well. This is his first encounter with other mutants, so our team have a little advantage over him since they learned a lot from Magneto.<br />
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The team fights hard to stop The Vanisher, but they just can't seem to lay a hand on him before he teleports somewhere else. Just when we thought all was lost, Professor X steps up his game.<br />
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Knowing that this mutant will test his team to their breaking point, and after reviewing some high speed footage of The Vanisher's teleportation, Professor X thinks up the most incredible plan. He'll go to battle with the X-Men and then mind-wipe The Vanisher.<br />
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Which, if you think about it, damn that's dark! A complete and total mind wipe? One would think that this would take time to contemplate as they essentially destroy a man's entire life...but Xavier doesn't bat an eye, he rolls up and goes Men In Black on The Vanisher.<br />
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<span style="color: white;">So we know from the first issue that Professor X is the child of some scientists who worked on the first A-bomb project. We also know that Professor X is crippled because of an accident he was involved in as a child. I speculated last time that perhaps this accident is also what gave Professor X his telepathic powers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Last issue we also found out that Professor X has a direct line to some very important people in the government. Professor X uses those same informants in Issue 2 to gain some intel on The Vanisher. So here comes my theory.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">I believe that Professor X did gain his powers after an accident involving the first A-bomb project. Powers that Charles didn't know how to control, or understand. Since he didn't know how to control them, various people within the government saw him use these powers, and while they still kept working on the A-bomb, they also started experimenting on Charles.</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">I'm sure he went through a rigorous training regiment, and when deemed ready, was given funding by the government to teach other people like him how to safely use their powers for good. Since this is a new, and rather dangerous project, the government has also provided Charles with amenities which are top of the line, painting the picture that he is not a mutant, but a wealthy, crippled recluse.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: white;">This would open up a lot of options for the X-Men team, who have no idea they are part of a government task force. They merely think that they are doing the right thing at all costs.</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Also, since Charles believes that he is the first person ever with mutant powers we can put a hard start point to the mutant generation. Right around 1945 during World War II. That means his parents worked on the Manhattan Project. These are also the same bombs which were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Not only did Charles Xavier gain his powers from the atomic bomb testing, but whatever changed Charles from that explosion also somehow altered people's genes which were involved in the project. Those people had children and that mutated gene was passed on to them. The X-Men are a product of war, just like Godzilla.</span></blockquote>
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I can't tell you how excited that I am to actually be undertaking this project. The X-Men have been my favorite Marvel super team for almost thirty years now! Though I have loved everything I have read from the 90s to current, I never really sat down and dedicated myself to finding these older issues to pour through.</div>
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I feel that this is because when I was a kid I had a reprint of X-Men #1, and I remember reading through it feeling that the art was sub par, and the story was weak and flat. Looking back, I was almost spoiled by the amazing art of Jim Lee from his run with Claremont, and I felt that between those comics and the X-Men cartoon, this was just too "out of date" for me.</div>
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Honestly, that's probably how younger kids look at me now when I talk about movies I loved from the 80s. Or when they stand back and gasp when I show them a black and white movie.</div>
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The first spectacular issue of the X-Men is famous for so many reasons, but the artist and the writer are two of the most prolific men in Marvel comics history! </div>
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That's right! This issue was written by the one and only Stan Lee and drawn by Jack Kirby! Their efforts, aided by Paul Reinman's inking and S. Rosen's lettering, really changed the face of modern comics as we know it!</div>
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Aside from having some monumental people working on this book - we can't forget about some other important people involved in this issue...the X-Men themselves! This team of fearless heroes is about to embark on their first ever mission against a nefarious threat! So, who will comprise this team of homo superiors?</div>
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<b>Charles Xavier (Professor X)</b> - the leader of the X-Men and the founder of the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. He is a gifted telepath (he believes he is one of the first mutants ever) who is aiming to train a team to protect the world from evil mutant threats. He was paralyzed in an accident when he was a child.</div>
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<b>Slim Summers (Human Cyclops)</b> - he has energy beams which emit from his eyes. He wears a visor which he can open and close to adjust the intensity of said energy beam. He acts as a stern captain of the X-Men, keeping the other members of the team in line.</div>
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<b>Hank McCoy (The Beast)</b> - he is all man, with many attributes of ape. He is strong and agile, and he knows how to use it to his advantage...he's also a huge flirt with pretty girls.<br />
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<b>Warren Worthington the Third (Angel)</b> - if you couldn't tell from the name, Warren is wealthy. His power is flight by two large wings on his back, which he conceals when not in costume by several large straps which keep his wings pressed against his body.<br />
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<b>Bobby Drake (Iceman)</b> - he is the youngest of the X-Men, only sixteen years old, but he is determined to be challenged just as toughly as the rest of the team. Bobby has an unusual sense of humor, and definitely knows how to lighten any serious situation. His body can turn into snow, and he can freeze anything that comes his way.<br />
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<b>Jean Grey (Marvel Girl)</b> - just like Professor X, Jean has the power of telekinesis. She is the newest addition to Professor X's team, and she's ready to show the rest of the team what she is made of! Jean joined the school by receiving a telepathic message from Professor X. All the X-Men have a crush on her, especially Hank McCoy.<br />
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<b>Magneto</b> - he is hellbent on proving to the puny homo sapiens that the mutant race, or homo superiors, should be in charge...and he will stop at nothing to gain control. Magneto uses his ability to control magnetism to manipulate metal objects, create force fields around himself, and even fly.<br />
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Jean Grey, aka Marvel Girl, received a telepathic message from Professor X to tell nobody but her parents that she was coming to the school. Now, if something like that happened to me, you'd better believe that I would have to give my parents a hell of a better explanation than that before they would allow me leave...but I guess times were different back then, and if you heard magic voices you'd better listen!<br />
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Magneto is finally acting on the first stage of his plan for total mutant rule of the Earth. Using his magnetic powers, Magneto takes control of a rocket that is being launched from Cape Citadel, and crashes it into the ocean. He then leaves a warning, via skywriting, with perfect calligraphy.<br />
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Now that the humans have been made aware of his presence, Magneto amplifies his powers by directing them into an energizer (c'mon it's science right?) and launches a missile concealed within a secret silo.</div>
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The X-Men, first transported via Rolls Royce, then flown to Cape Citadel in a plane piloted by Professor X via mind control, arrive on the scene. Cyclops blasts through Magneto's force field with his optic blast, catching Magneto off guard and stunning him.<br />
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I have to say - this was a really interesting read. This first issue wasn't interesting because of how iconic the X-Men are, and all of it's action packed panels, but instead it was really interesting to see just how different things were in 1963 compared to today.</div>
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One thing that I really enjoyed with the X-Men is that, just like all Marvel comics, this is set in the real world and it's been assumed that we believe that these "homo superiors" actually exist. Also, there is no "origin" story so to speak. I think that a lot of movie studios could take lessons from this first issue.</div>
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Being dropped into this knowledge definitely leaves with questions that I want clarified (I'm almost trying to read this how I would play an RPG, player knowledge versus character knowledge. I have a lot of X-Men knowledge, but I want to challenge myself based off questions that I have from the context of the issue.). For example - where the heck did Charles Xavier get all this money where he can afford to own this gigantic mansion, own a Rolls Royce, as well as have a private jet? He mentioned that he could implant ideas and suggestions into people's mind. Perhaps this is one way Professor X acquired his wealth when he was younger? </div>
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Also - Professor X was in an accident when he was a child which left his paralyzed. He also mentions that his parents worked on the first A-bomb project. Could this accident be something related to this A-bomb project gone wrong? Could this be not only how he became paralyzed, but also how he gained his powers?</div>
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I know Marvel likes to give something great, but at the same time take something critically important to a character away. Hmm - there's a lot to ponder here. Professor X might just have a backstory that would be very interesting to read about.</div>
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Something that really stuck out to me while I was reading this issue was the way that the male characters spoke about the female characters...sometimes while they were in the room. This stuck out to me because if men spoke about women this way today, we would probably be slapped across the face, or worse, slapped with a sexual harassment lawsuit.</div>
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The men quickly assumed the Jean Grey was weak, and quickly kept all their conversation about her being "pretty". Hank McCoy was the most frequent offender of this type of dialogue, which makes me seriously bring his character into question.</div>
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This first issue was published in 1963. Just a year before this comic book's release, America entered into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis">Cuban Missile Crisis</a>. For those who don't know, the Cuban Missile Crisis was a thirteen day confrontation between the USA and Russia concerning American ballistic deployment in Turkey and Italy, with a consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. This was the closest that the Cold War ever came to escalating to a full scale nuclear war.</div>
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I love this. I absolutely love this. This issue, with this plot, shows Stan Lee's writing coming full to the table. Stan was always good at not only telling a great story, but also by teaching lessons within those stories. This direct allegory to the Cuban Missile Crisis really plays to very real fears that the American people had at this time. It kept readers engaged, but at the same time, also showed that there will always be heroes to help where there is a need. People will stand up and fight for what is right.</div>
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Overall - while this issue is very unconventional compared to today's comic books, I really enjoyed reading this. I learned some new things about the X-Men that I had never known before (like how Cyclops was really named Slim, and how Professor X only spoke to the team when it was very important), as well as got to see a small snippet into how different genders were looked at in the 1960s. I also saw how politically driven these comic books were at the time, and played against people's real fears due to world events.</div>
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One personal interest I have is comic books. It's been a huge passion of mine since the old 90s X-Men cartoon, and I discovered the Chris Claremont/Jim Lee gold team revitalization of the X-Men. Suffice to say...I love the X-Men.<br />
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I love all other comic books too, however I definitely lean way more toward Marvel books. DC isn't a dirty word in my house (well, not to me, my wife is a different story), I love a lot of the revamps they have done over the past few years (though they are overwhelming).<br />
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So my thought was to take an iconic comic series from the very beginning, read all the issues I can find in order, and review them. I think especially with what Marvel has done with their cinematic universe, it'll be really cool to go all the way back to the start and see how the team has evolved over time.<br />
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I'll take one series at a time, and all series suggestions are welcome. I'll try to do at least one of these a day (that's a hefty claim though).<br />
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So - to kick this whole project off - since I'm an die hard X-Men fan at heart, that's where we'll start!<br />
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