Uncanny X-Men #129

[iamrman]

Girl Boss and Brat of the X-Men.

Kitty being dramatic. Then again, teenagers gonna teenage.

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[scorntx]

The start of the Dark Phoenix Saga.
Even for Claremont, there was a lot going on in this issue.
And it's pretty much peak Claremont.

Much as Kitty would become... a lot when she actually joins the X-Men, here she's a perfectly normal teenager.
(Not even a mention of how she's also actually a super-genius.)

Funnily enough, this issue has a legitimate case of Professor X actually being... y'know.
After he got bored hanging around with his sexy alien girlfriend and her bird-jerk civilisation, he decided to come home and be a jerk to his students.

(Though if anyone's being jerks, it's the Prydes. Said it before, but if your daughter's home early and talking about a recurring headache, and you find them lying on the floor, maybe your first reaction shouldn't be "darn kids these days!")

Between becoming fast friends over one ice cream and her 'friendship' with Jean where they've hardly ever exchanged conversations, starting to think Ororo just latches on to people super-fast.
(Still, at least right now it's just friendship, and not the slightly creepy clingy pseudo-mom attitude she gets later.
*sigh* Claremooont...)

... wait, Kitty mentioned the fight with Proteus. So it wasn't forgotten about!
So if some freaking rando kid from Chicago is bringing it up, why does no-one else?

[mazway_75]

My first full X-Men story and hot damn, the run here....

[dan_ingram]

Whatever happened to Kitty's mom, anyways?

I know the dad was nuked on Genosha

[jkcarrier]

I remember these issues well. I liked Kitty right away, and thought that perhaps her introduction indicated the series was going in a more optimistic direction. Ha ha, how wrong I was...

[mastermahan]

"Good to meet you, Professor. And by meet, I of course mean it's wonderful to see you again, my dear army buddy who I asked to be my best man. "

That was not one of Claremont's smoothest retcons.