264. Uncanny X-Men vol 1 #192 ... Marvel ...

With young John Romita Jr finally coming into his own with his fast-developing style that is today's signature, Chris Claremont continues to ramp up the new villains and interesting storylines. At this juncture, active X-Men has dropped to almost an all-time low with only Rogue, Nightcrawler and Colossus. Wolverine is as usual, in and out while Storm, now depowered is embarking on a personal journey of self discovery while Cyclops does what he does best which is being strict and moody

So what happens here?

SPOILER ALERT

For those who enjoyed the past decade's cosmic crossover, it all starts here with the Magus. Magus is the daddy of Warlock, an alien who is a techno-organic being. This means he uses energy to survive and his body can change into a number of shapes with the only exception being that he looks like a machine albeit one that has feelings

In their world, for the young to survive, he must slay his father but in Warlock's case, he decided to flee and ended up on earth with the New Mutants. Thus when papa Magus flies all over the universe searching for him, well, naturally a being who can rip a sun in 2 is going to be serious problems, right?

And that's what happens here ... the above are part of ongoing subplot ... and how do the X-Men combat him when strength is not enough?

About the only way they didn't die here is because Magus stupidly fights them instead of converting them into techno organics and sucking the life force out of them. Dumb villain! Anyway after a running fight, Rogue figures out a way and BANG laid Magus a world of pain ... so much so that he up and teleports away

Yup, he escaped and the X-Men being tired decided to let him go ... and that's another thing, the X-Men will never follow up and wait for themselves to be attacked in future by villains. Crazy right? That's comics for you

Ratings: 7/10 (would have been higher if not for that last paragraph above)