For me, Jim Lee came into his own on the Uncanny X-Men ... this particular run and what a run it is ... of course thanks to the poor quality of the newsprint ... sometimes the artwork comes out dark ... but you know what? During this time, Lee gave us his quintessential look and paired with Scott Williams? Awesome! Just check out that coverThis is the end of an arc but heralding more to come but during this time, the X-Men reads as a slice of mutant life story with almost no downtime. It is not about them going to confront only villains but having villains come after them and their lives are thorn apart
At this point, there isn't a proper team of X-Men. The entire team is split and then ... thanks to something that happened before #250, the X-Men decided to walk through a powerful mystical portal called the Siege Perilous ... that analyzed them and churned them out with new personalities and memories in various parts of the world ... the one that didn't go through? Wolvie and Jubilee
As the cover indicates, Wolverine and Jubilee are now making their way around to recover their team mates while trying to find out who is after them. On the sidelines in the form of side plots, we have Legion and something super nasty brewing on Muir Isle
On the main story? We have Psylocke being reborn in Asia in the body of an Asian woman ... who is an assassin named Kwannon. It will be a few more years before what happened is told in full in another X-Men series (not yet launched when this issue came out) ... and the Hand, that loser ninja cult sect, is using Psylocke to convert Wolverine to their cause ... naturally as they are X-Men ... they managed to fight the conditioning and give it back to the villains
As this is also the time of Marvel's weaker crossovers i.e. Acts of Vengeance we see classic Iron Man baddie Mandarin here giving the mutants a hard time
So how do we rate this?
Ratings: 9/10 (yeah baby yeah!)
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