One perfect moment: Psylocke

[villano27dave.insanejournal.com]

Long before Emma Frost became the morally ambivalent HBIC of the X-Men, Betsy Braddock was all purple and being just as shady. Psylocke has a vision that her seriously underpowered team of X-Men is about to get butchered by the Reavers (who really were scary way back then -- hard to believe, ya know -- or at least scary to the childhood version of me). So instead of, being a super hero and fighting to the death, Psylocke gives the team a telpathic nudge...to run away.

This is from Uncanny X-Men 251 (a really trippy issue) and they are using the Siege Perilous -- a plot device given to them by Roma after the Fall of the Mutants that will split them up for several issues and temporarily wipe away their memories ending the "Outback" era of the team and officially disbanding my favorite X-Men lineup. She has already led Dazzler and Colossus into the siege, and now she's sending Havok on his merry way.

After this, Psylocke becomes Asian and Havok becomes a Genoshan magistrate...

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[darkknightjrk.insanejournal.com]

"This is from Uncanny X-Men 251 (a really trippy issue) and they are using the Siege Perilous -- a plot device given to them by Roma after the Fall of the Mutants that will split them up for several issues and temporarily wipe away their memories ending the "Outback" era of the team ... After this, Psylocke becomes Asian and Havok becomes a Genoshan magistrate..."

...what.

This is probably why I stay away from the very continuity-heavy X-Men. And they say the Multiverse is complicated.

[cmdr_zoom.insanejournal.com]

It gets better:
One of the reasons for this was to simplify the continuity for new readers, creating a good jumping-on point.
Yeah, just like Crisis. The first one. That was going to fix and simplify everything.
You'd think they'd know by now that trick NEVER works.

[stolisomancer.insanejournal.com]

Honestly, if you grew up reading the book, or if you start at one of the decent jumping-on points throughout Claremont's run, it's not that convoluted at all. If you try to explain it to other people, it's like any other long-running story; it starts sounding more and more insane.

Mutatis mutandis

[sherkahn.insanejournal.com]

Actually this is one of my favorite issues, when Logan comes back from one of his private adventures and gets bushwhacked by the Reavers. They crucify him and beat him within an inch of his life. Then the elements take their toll on him as he suffers on his cross, I mean, on his X.

The scene above is a replay of what happened to the X-men, as Logan experiences a fever dream and gets informed as to what happened to his teammates by an avatar posing as friends and foes alike who love or respect Logan, or need him alive. The avatar talks break down a lot of his self-delusions and faults he had back then as the "loner" who abandoned the team when they needed him. They were awesome, including fake-Sabretooth.

This scene above is from that fever vision.

This really brought the team down to it's individual components and Logan had to go and find and rebuild the X-men again. Even though he wasn't functioning at full strength, or even in his right mind. Yet he didn't give up and didn't fail. He was as close to mortal as 616 has allowed him to be, and he was awesome. But he couldn't or wouldn't die, because of the quality of Logan the man that excites Jean Grey so much. His passion and ferocity for life. Even when his mind and health are failing, Logan's will kept him going.

And he had his own sidekick, Jubilee, to keep him in line. This started the whole Wolverine/Jubilee partnership... which was--IS-- a beautiful thing. His Dark Knight badass to her smart ass teen wonder.

[greenmask.insanejournal.com]

Mm, Claremont Adventure.

And as a bonus, some real nice inking! It looks like a real person did it, it is unslick!

[dimesfornickels.wordpress.com (from insanejournal.com)]

If I recall correctly, Silvestri was the X artist at the time.

[greenmask.insanejournal.com]

Haha, no way.

I started out reading Top Cow comics, so every mention of Silvestri working for Marvel is just WEIRD to me.

[dimesfornickels.wordpress.com (from insanejournal.com)]

Well, he was the penciler. Dan Green was the inker. Looking at Marc Silvestri's current art, I'd say Green brought out the personalty that his art lost somewhere in the 1990s

[menagerie.insanejournal.com]

Hrmm. I thought it was John Constantine when I first saw the picture. ^_^*

[sandoz_iscariot.insanejournal.com]

And this is after Havok's ill-fated affair with Madelyne Pryor, so he's had a few headaches where female telepaths are concerned...

[moneyless_jew.insanejournal.com]

This is why I look forward to seeing what Fraction does with the character. I think she and Emma can coexist. Unfortunately, they just HAD to make her Japanese again in a story that apparently made little sense. I still like his X-work, though.