Strange Adventures And Apparitions #152

The Uncanny X-Men #152
“The Hellfire Gambit”
Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod

Synopsis
Storm and Emma Frost have switched bodies! The X-Men have been taken captive! It’s up to Storm and Kitty to save the day- if Storm can convince Kitty she’s really not Emma, that is.

Rolling Commentary
Page 6. Man, Shaw is just all kinds of creepy if you ask me.

Page 9. Ok, seriously now. How come whenever Kitty does something less than brilliant, they punish her by grabbing the back of her pants? Seriously. What the hell?

Page 10. I know Storm can’t use Emma’s powers very well, but you’d think she’d hear Sebastian Shaw flipping over a freaking car.

Page 11. Colossus, you know he can’t actually be dead, right?

Page 14. So, how did Wolverine escape (and get his gloves and helmet)? Meh. I don’t know. He’s Wolverine. Works for me.

Page 16. These Hellfire goons get more and more lame every time we see the poor bastards…

Page 19. It’s the epic final battle, I guess. Is Storm (in Emma’s body) being held up there by the wind alone?

Page 21. … Ok, a little rushed with the resolution here, and didn’t we just have Storm going crazy with her powers during the Dr. Doom story? But this does seem to back up my theory that no X-Man is shown naked on-panel as much as Storm.

Post Mortem
Hey, did Amanda actually do anything? No? I mean, they kept making random hints that she would do something, and she seemed to bob her head back and forth quite a bit, but that was pretty much it.

Too much happens on the last three pages, and no one really solves anything other than the body swap stuff. Shaw managed to get a hold of government commissioned Sentinels- shouldn’t the X-Men be worried? Shaw’s in a comma, you know, whatever.

This issue was okay, I guess. It just ends really suddenly, it’s quite jarring. And the Amanda thing- are we going to see more of that stuff? Was this something that was originally going to be part of the plot and they just ran out of time? Hmm.