Strange Adventures and Apparitions #148

The Uncanny X-Men #148
“Cry, Mutant!”
Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum

Synopsis
Storm and Kitty, along with a couple friends, go to see Dazzler perform. But what’s attacking the people in the club?

Rolling Commentary
Pages 2 and 3. Oh man… I so want Cthulhu to be hanging out in this city. But again with the miss printed pages in my Essential Volume…

Page 7. I like this game Nightcrawler and Wolverine are playing. It seems… right, somehow.

Page 8. Hey, why’s everyone jumping on Wolverine here? He chopped up a robot. That’s your reasoning, Angel? Sheesh. I mean, he didn’t do anything to Arcade except scare him. How does that make him a violent berserker killer?

Page 9. I can’t believe I didn’t think of this earlier, but seeing Illyana there makes me wonder something. How did Miss Locke get her out of Russia? Like, seriously? And here’s the first time we foreshadow stuff about Illyana.

Page 10. First Theresa Rourke. Huzzah!

Page 12. I’m glad Miss Hunter took being captured by Miss Locke and crew in stride, and is still willing to associate with Storm and Kitty.

Page 14. That was he fastest costume change I’ve ever seen…

Page 20. So it was all a big misunderstanding, and don’t you guys feel foolish? Of course, now Caliban is gone. I wonder if we’ll ever see him again? (Yes.)

Page 21. Whatever, Storm. If Professor Xavier hadn’t found you a lot of Kenyan’s wouldn’t be starving right now (and no, I'm not going to drop that any time soon).

Page 22. Yay for Magneto!

Post Mortem
Well, it’s kind of a slow burner episode, but lots of character setup is here, which is a good thing. Angel’s continued discomfort around Wolverine, Colossus’ homesickness, the introduction of Banshee’s daughter. Good stuff.

Theresa’s comment that she had something from Banshee’s “cousin Tom” is a bit ominous, though, considering the past history with him. And since the last two times we saw him he brought with him first leprechauns (son of a bitch) then Arcade (god damn it), I fear his next appearance.

Hey, look, it’s Magneto. Huzzah! But seriously, the statistical odds of Cyclops falling off a boat he’s working on while on leave from the X-Men and being washed ashore to a small sandpit in the Bermuda Triangle, only to witness the very next day a giant island rise from the bottom of the ocean a stone’s throw away from his location, then to walk on over there and hang out for a bit, only to find it’s the new found home of freaking Magneto-

-well, those are some pretty astonishing chances. Yeah.

Oh, and Spider-Woman was in this issue. Which was cool.