New X-Men? #113

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“Showdown!”

Chris Claremont and John Byrne

Synopsis

The X-Men are completely immobilized and at Magneto’s whim. He probably should have killed them when he had the chance.

Rolling Commentary

Such a brilliant title. Anyway…

Page 2. Yay for Magneto causing chaos!!!

Page 11. I think this is the real beginning of Magneto’s distaste for Wolverine. How many other people have managed to rip into him like that?

That being said: Cyclops! Seriously! Stop with the metal mutants going at him full-speed-ahead!

Page 12. Oh. Maybe it’s not really entirely Cyclops’ fault after all. And that looks awfully painful to me, Nightcrawler.

Page 15. Way to go, team. Now you’re all going to die via Volcano. And Magneto’s still going to get away. Sucks to be you guys.

Post Mortem

Damn it Magneto. You have to kill them! No prisoners! They always escape and kick your ass afterwards!

Anyway. Storm proves that picking locks is a good thing. Colossus gets the upper hand, and Nightcrawler steals helmets. To bad Jean didn’t telepathically attack him then. But alas.

Fun issue. Good fun all around. Magneto issues are always good times, but these two were more fun than the last time we saw him. So, now that Phoenix and Beast are going to (not) freeze to death, and the rest of the team is going to (not) be engulfed in lava, what happens next?