So let's just get this out there; I am not really a huge X-Men fan. It's not that I hate mutants or anything, it's just...I never really find them interesting. I'll take Spider-man and Daredevil over Cyclops and Wolverine any day. So on it's a rare day when I get a X-Men comic. Well, except Ultimate X-Men. I mostly get that in trade format though. It helped that my High School library had the first...8. ANYWAY.
This is a pretty weird comic in itself. It takes place towards the end of a story arc which pits the X-Men against a new version of the Hellfire Club, which is a group of assholes who always for some reason hassle the X-Men's groins. I never really understood the point of this super-evil super group, who, instead of being evil, play chess. This group is made up of Cassandra Nova (What a clever name!), Emma Frost, Perfection, and some other losers that are pretty much thrown in the be there.
This issue doesn't really have much of the bad guys, though. it really focuses more on Cyclops, who is being mentally raped by Ema Frost. Seriously, she tries everything. She even turns herself into Jean Grey to try to get in his pants. Women. Talk about crazy. They keep on chatting it up, and at one point Emma turns Scott into Wolverine while they're making out. This prompts him to call her a "sick bitch", which isn't really helping the situation really. I mean, come on Cyclops! If some crazy chick is turning you into things while attempting to make love to you, maybe calling her a sick bitch isn't the best idea. Maybe...leaving the room or something. But no, instead they start fighting, and more name calling flys...it's really not that good of a scene. Plus, all of this Emma Frost talk really got me thinking about the "white queen"; she is pretty ugly. I know she's supossed to be like, a hot plastic girl, but damn! At least leave something real! She looks like a cross between Jessica Drew, a silver sharpie and Paris Hilton. And her outfit is a little...out there.
Anyway, we take a short break from the hot Scott on Emma action and we get to see some comedy. Shadowcat, the little sister of the X-Men, falls naked from the ceiling, apparently coming from Colossus' room. I know, it sounds way perverted but it's actually funny. I mean, i didn't laugh out loud, but I probably chortled or something. Chortled, that's a funny word. Anyway, she runs back up the stairs, through the mansion, in just a bed sheet, mind you. She runs back and makes some joke to Colossus that makes me wonder why this isn't a MAX imprint comic. Ah, just kidding, it's pretty much harmless.
We then get lucky enough to visit back with Scott, who is still in the middle of his apparent lovers spat with Emma. She's still being a bitch to him; questioning why he was the leader when there were other people who would have been a better choice, pointing out that he wasn't the best looking member of the original X-Men, yadda yadda. Her ramblings even give us a cool shot of Storm with a mohawk. How awesome is that?! She EVENTUALLY gets to her point, that Xavier felt sorry for Scott because he's the only guy on the team who didn't have a "thing", so he was made leader. Which could be true, hey, who knows.
Then the comic takes this weird twist and shows a scene of bugs, space and some annoying red shit. I guess, if I had read the whole series thus far, it would have made a bunch more sense, but...I was in the dark.
HOWEVER! Quite possibly the funniest thing in the book comes at the very end, when Kitty and Colossus show up together and Logan happens to be there:
'Bout time indeed.
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