This Issue! Things Get Worse! #130

The Uncanny X-Men #130
“Dazzler”
Chris Claremont and John Byrne

Synopsis
Even as the Chicago team is taken captive, Cyclops, Phoenix, and Nightcrawler look for the new mutant in New York. But it seems they’re not the only ones, when the Hellfire Club shows up.

Rolling Commentary
You’ll never guess who’s going to be introduced in this issue…

Page 3. I kind of like this club. It’s got a sort of punk-disco vibe that you don’t see many places trying.

Page 5. I know it’s not the first time we see Sebastian Shaw, but it is the first time we really get a good look at him.

Page 6. Apparently we captured Charles off panel.

Page 8. How exactly do Emma’s eyelashes overpower her hair?

Page 10. If these are really based on Jean’s fantasies then she’s as sexually repressed as Scott is.

Page 11. Luckily, Cyclops is good about keeping his head in the middle of a mission.

Page 12. Why would Professor Xavier be angry that Nightcrawler was no longer using he Image Inducer? Why discourage Nightcrawler embracing and accepting who he is? What happened to Mutant Pride? See? Professor Xavier is such a total jerk.

Page 16. Jean is so hardcore when she does shit like this.

Post Mortem
Man, I can’t believe Jean hasn’t figured out who Jason Wyngarde is yet. And he just happens to a appear in the same nightclub Scott and Jean are investigating? And She doesn’t think something might be up with that? Last time she saw him was in Scotland, and she just bumps into him in New York? She needs to start thinking smarter, clearly.

Dazzler never once thought that something might be up with her crazy powers? Never? Man, not that clever. No wonder she ends up with that three-fingered wannabe Domino (actually, to be fair, the character I’m referring to premiered five or six years before Domino. I just like Domino way better.).

Yay for Kitty raising hell in Emma Frost’s base! That will be referenced through to the present day, by the by.