Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011) #112

Uncanny X-Men (1963)

by Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum (Cover Art), John Byrne (Artist)

After just freeing themselves from the control of Mesmero, the X-Men storm the villain's carnival trailer!

Genres: Comics, X Men, Marvel, Fiction, Comic Book

17 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 10, 1978

About the author

Chris Claremont is a writer of American comic books, best known for his 16-year (1975-1991) stint on Uncanny X-Men, during which the series became one of the comic book industry's most successful properties.

Claremont has written many stories for other publishers including the Star Trek Debt of Honor graphic novel, his creator-owned Sovereign Seven for DC Comics and Aliens vs Predator for Dark Horse Comics. He also wrote a few issues of the series WildC.A.T.s (volume 1, issues #10-13) at Image Comics, which introduced his creator-owned character, Huntsman.

Outside of comics, Claremont co-wrote the Chronicles of the Shadow War trilogy, Shadow Moon (1995), Shadow Dawn (1996), and Shadow Star (1999), with George Lucas. This trilogy continues the story of Elora Danan from the movie Willow. In the 1980s, he also wrote a science fiction trilogy about female starship pilot Nicole Shea, consisting of First Flight (1987), Grounded! (1991), and Sundowner (1994). Claremont was also a contributor to the Wild Cards anthology series.

Reviews

[zach]

GOOFY GOOFY FUN AND I LOVE MAGNETO

[Gilbert Moreno]

Magneto takes the X Men on a trip to his home in Antarctica. It’s funny seeing everyone hold Wolverine back from charging Magneto. They’re spotted by some Mexican pilots who speak stereotypical English for mexicans. Magneto throws Mesmero off board.

Storm and Phoenix come close to beating Magneto but fall short. Magneto straps them all up and is about to make them infants I think

[Robert]

Magneto is such an awesome villain, Ya just gotta like the guy, This was a good read.

[Lari]

No one does villainy like a comic book villain. Why just kill your nemesis when you can instead sentence them to a cruel and unusual fate?

[Britt Halliburton]

The art is good and the writing is fine, but the overarching plot just leaves me scratching my head. Back when, as said here, the Magneto that Mesmero served turned out to be a robot, which was always an odd decision for the writers to make in the first place. Here, Magneto dismisses Mesmero as nothing, which just makes me wonder why did the writers even use him in the previous issue, if they were just going to remove him? And who was controlling the robot then, because it seems Magneto didn’t care for it so was it not his robot? Would Mesmero not help the real Magneto, after all he was angry that he’d been serving a robot last time. It sort of feels, again, like Claremont saw a plot hole and wanted to deal with it and wound up making a much bigger hole of questions.

Magneto flies the group through space in a carnival wagon… which was odd. Then beats the crap out of the lot of them. I do like Magneto being properly powerful again, but more I do like that Cyclops acknowledges that the team could have stood against Magneto if they’d actually work as a team properly. Great moment for Colossus where he risks his own safety to save Nightcrawler, it’s that very self-sacrificing behaviour of his that makes him so loved by readers.

Not much actually happens this issue. After being ferried across the world to Magneto’s base, we have a big fight scene and then they’re captured.the fight is good, but we don’t get to see a whole lot and some of the takedowns make me question how their powers even work - like shouldn’t Banshee be immune to his own powers? How does the cold amplify Magneto’s powers after Storm’s attack?

[Sean Korzinski]

Magneto uses his powers to move the carnival wagon to the Antarctic. Magneto has a base beneath an active volcano. Once at his HQ the attack begins. Magneto takes out the X-Men one by one. The cool part is that after winning Magneto hooks up the X-Men to machines that keeps them conscious and themselves but their muscles and speech are reduced to 6 month old infants. A robot nanny is left to attend to the "babies".

Look of the issue is fantastic but the story is not nearly as engaging as the universe saving epic that was the last main storyline. Hopefully some setup before things really get going again.

[Amir Arif Barakat]

I think I like this one because of Hank’s staying around. But I’d expect Scott and Jean would more fond of him. They didn’t see and fight along side each other in a long time. But when they finally do, it is as if the were never a team before. PS: At least this isn’t a filler issue.

[Korey]

3 1/2

[Pickletape]

Magneto is insanely powerful wtf

[Robert Beartoe]

The X-Men are in trouble! Magneto! Beast! Dope artwork! Cool comic!

[em.133]

real rating 3 1/2

[Cole Brian]

Magneto is actually the final boss

[Sebastiano]

3.5

[Etienne]

Not a bad one, but clearly a repetitive one.