{"id":25611,"date":"2025-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=25611"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:39:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:39:42","slug":"uxm-38-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/03\/12\/uxm-38-39\/","title":{"rendered":"UXM 38 & 39"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wolverine is all face on this cover. This was one of Finch\u2019s early weaknesses, he drew people\u2019s heads too small, like there wasn\u2019t enough room in their skull for a brain. I made a joke about this on a forum once, and to my surprise, he was there, saw it and said he\u2019d try to do better. I was kinda mortified. But he quit doing it, so\u2026 maybe I helped! Despite how last issue ended, Spider-Man appears on one panel of the last 2 issues of this story, so we\u2019re gonna do the quickest possible recaps here. Which, for me, is probably still going to be a long post, but look, the blog is free. We open on Wolverine coming up out of the vat in the Weapon X project, more or less as it happened in the original. Professor X has taken Wolverine to this moment in his memories because, as he recaps a little, he thinks this lady hunting him might be a threat to all of the X-Men. He wants Logan to look around the room and see if he recognizes people. He sees the woman who\u2019s been hunting him, and begins cutting between his memory of her and her shooting him in the face last issue until he freaks out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lgona explains that he can sense everyone distrusts him, Xavier gives a nice speech about earning their trust, then says he\u2019s going to make a call. That call is, surprise surprise, to Nick Fury, and they argue about the situation and who should take care of it. Meanwhile:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ya know, I thought that was Peter at the table with them, but maybe it\u2019s Iceman. Is Iceman even in this book? I don\u2019t remember. So little of this story has actually featured the X-Men! Well, Logan goes outside after Jean makes the stank face at him, and she follows him out to say she does not forgive him for trying to kill Cyclops and his being there is a gift and if he crosses her, she\u2019ll kill him, you know, the classic love triangle! Then they both sense something, and we cut to a helicopter coming in. They have blundered too close, and get attacked and blown up by the Phoenix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, then, UXM 39.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gotta make being passed out after blowing up look sexy, after all. The others have found her, and she\u2019s freakin out because she killed those guys and she can\u2019t shut out anyone\u2019s thoughts. Professor X has Nightcrawler teleport her back to the mansion. In this universe, his teleport cloud is orange to match their uniforms. She keeps freaking out, and Xavier tells Kurt he\u2019ll handle it and to leave. In a warehouse in Woodstock, the lady from this story is being dressed down via 2000s-era web cam by a mystery man who says she wasn\u2019t authorized to do all the stuff she\u2019s done, she botched the job, she sent their target back to Xavier where he\u2019s off limits, and she\u2019d now cut off. She says this is war, and he says she\u2019s a casualty. Then he cuts the feed, everyone looks at each other, and Cyclops blows the door open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ok, yeah, I think that was Iceman sitting at the table, looking exactly like Peter Parker. Finch will get much better at, like, drawing unique people later, as I recall. It\u2019s also worth noting that, in this universe, as I recall, Professor X designed all their suits himself, and they do something. Like block them from mutant sensors or something? Like they serve a very important purpose, so he made them himself. And all the girls, the underage girls, are in lil croptops and hip huggers, and all the guys are not, so you know, Professor X is pretty gross! Anyway, faced with certain capture at best, the crazy lady shoots all her goons and then herself before anyone can stop her. Everyone is horrified, especially young Kitty, and Logan lets out a primal scream as helicopters arrive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dugan once again reiterates that Logan being on the cover of Time was a lightning rod, and these people wanted to expose him and show the world how evil mutants are. As he leaves, Dugan says, \u201cHey, read a book. Slavery split this country in two,\u201d and asks who knows what mutants will do. This particular thing sticks out to me for reasons that won\u2019t matter for years on this blog, but\u2026 I\u2019ll try to remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So was that lady his wife? Who knows, we never will. Bendis and Finch will take the title to #45, with what I remember as a series of one-off stories, and then Brian K. Vaughan comes in for a long run with artists like Brandon Peterson and Stuart Immonen that really woke this book up and made it work better than it ever had, but that\u2019s outside our purview. And that\u2019s it for this block. Kind of awkward to end on comics that don\u2019t even star Spider-Man, but that\u2019s how it goes sometimes. Now it\u2019s back to the mainline continuity for awhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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