#uncannyxmen261

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Gez could they draw and write Jubilee any more obnoxiously? Oh yes, because look at how grumpy women get when they’re hungry. Hilarious.

Give me a break with this shit. The only thing that saves this scene is the Miami Vice bleached white suit Wolverine is wearing.

Oh and Jubilee gets a shotgun blast straight to the sternum. Somehow that was just a stun round, even though she’s clearly clearly bleeding out with a hole in her chest in that last panel.  (Uncanny X-Men #261 – May 1990)

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I can remember reading these comics as a kid. After a few boring issues that told the stories of amnesiac Colossus as he bumbled around New York and amnesiac Dazzler as she bumbled around a wet suit I was like JESUS YES let me see Wolverine and Psylocke dismember some gangsters. There are stretches during this period of X-Men comics where the series doesn’t even feel very much like like the X-Men, because everybody is split up and nobody is wearing their costumes or even able to remember who they are. But Claremont peppers in just enough of this stuff with Wolverine and Forge and Banshee attempting to reunite the team that it keeps you hooked. Definitely a dire time for the characters, but it’s also an interesting and fresh direction. (Uncanny X-Men #261 – May 1990)

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Jean Grey makes an appearance at the ruins of the X-Men’s mansion after she turned down Cyclops’s marriage proposal and ghosted the fuck on out of the pages of X-Factor. Hahahaha I love how she takes one look at Scott and Maddy’s wedding picture and then just chucks it back into the rubble. It’s kind of sad though. That was such a sincerely happy moment in the series, one of the few (except for that part where Wolverine was giving the old stinkeye during the ceremony), and now it’s just a discarded piece of junk.

Ahhh Jesus! That thing is like a Jean Grey xenomorph with one of those mouth chomper things that’s another Jean Grey! Fucking hideous. I’m assuming this is Masque’s group of rogue Morlocks who kidnapped Callisto. I hope I’m wrong and there’s something more interesting going on here because Masque just isn’t that threatening if you don’t care what you look like. (Uncanny X-Men #261 – May 1990)

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For some reason, Psylocke lets Jubilee plan Wolverine’s rescue from these mercenaries, and the plan she comes up with involves dressing up like a pizza delivery boy and then detonating her little firework powers once she gets inside their base.

Come on this clearly wouldn’t work if these were real mercenaries who actually liked shooting people with guns. Fortunately for Jubilee, this was all some kind of training exercise devised by Wolverine and the leader of Hardcase and the Harriers, for some reason.

What was the point of all this!!! Who is paying those mercenaries??? Wolverine doesn’t have any money!! He’s not Bruce Wayne, with all kinds of bucks to throw at menial training exercises!! And who bought all that pizza?? That’s like 250 dollars worth of pizza. WOLVERINE DOES NOT HAVE ANY MONEY.

Omg who is this here in the Wolverine Rescue Squad. I recognize Rose Wu, but then who are the chicks in the uniforms? Is that supposed to be Lindsay MaCabe and Jessica Drew? And who is fishnet shirt mustache guy? Wolverine does not have that many friends and the artist knows it because half those people are in the shadows so they don’t have to show who they are. (Uncanny X-Men #261 – May 1990)

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Hey wait a second!! How did this pilot Cylla Markham survive getting blown up in the last issue, and more importantly, how did her race change??? She was black in the last issue, wasn’t she?? And now she’s as white as Ann Coulter’s ghost after falling in a vat of wet flour. Did the explosion do that??? I thought it was weird when they introduced this new character and even took the time to give her a name and then blew her to shit in the very next panel, but it looks like they have more in store for her. Amazing that she survived the explosion and the 20,000 foot fall, and she only needs a body cast! Look at her! She actually seems like she’s in pretty good spirits! Tough woman. (Uncanny X-Men #261 – May 1990)