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5. Kitty Pryde & Wolverine is a classic coming of age tale: first breakup, parents divorce, your dad getting blackmailed by yakuza, homelessness in Tokyo, getting physically and emotionally broken down and built back up as a ninja assassin twice, etc.
4. Two Girls Out to Have Fun (Uncanny 189) Rachel and Magma go on a date ❤️. Leialoha's blocky inks are perfect for JRJR's blocky shapes and I wish they had done more work together. Claremont predicts 9/11 in this one. Great forgotten done-in-one issue.
3. Slumber Party (New Mutants 21) easily the best issue of the Sienkiewicz run. Effortlessly mixes goofy character-driven teen comedy with tense and gruesome horror. Tons of fun, great moments for all my favs, and the first appearance of Warlock.
Everything is here: JRJR rain, Lifedeath, Storm with a gun, Colossus breaking Kitty's heart, Juggernaut breaking Colossus's face, origin of Rachel Grey, Rogue's best costume, Forge, Selene, Professor X doing his goofy psychic projection T-pose thing. Peak X-Men comics.
1. The Brood Saga (Uncanny 154-167) This is the first really BIG long X-Men arc, pure Bronze Age sci-fi melodrama. Cockrum is a genius and he draws the hell out of these comics. I can't stress enough how underrated this whole story is.
@MagnetoRocks They're constantly hanging out together in the OG Claremont run. During the Australia era Colossus decides to stop wearing wearing shirts and Rogue is like "oh no he's hot!"
Captain Britain storms off in the middle of the night to go be with his ex-girlfriend, and Meggan immediately forgives him because she has no self-esteem left from his manipulation. Someone please help this poor woman 😭
Brian Braddock is just the worst dude. Why do any of these people put up with him.