When you read the original X-Men's run, while the characters are interesting, you just know, if published today, it wouldn't survive and be the success that it is now. Heck even back then it failed after a years becoming reprints for a while before relaunching with the new X-Men that survived until today
Why do we say that?
Well, mainly because of the villains. The premise is good enough. You have bald headed Prof X assembling a group of teens who have shown mutated abilities to train and use them against villains. However, the challenge is that the villains are always Magneto and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Even when they feature others like earlier Namor or later Unus, it is always Magneto trying to recruit them to go against the X-Men almost to the point of boredom because back then most tales are told as one-shot and if within less than a year, the same villains keep coming back only to have their butts kicked, then where is the fun in the tale any more, right?
So in this the seventh issue, we not only see Magneto and the Brotherhood but the return of the Blob. See what we mean by limited variety of villains?
Anyway, after their first encounter, Prof X wiped the Blob and his carnival buddies' memories of the X-Men (yes Prof X was nasty then) ... however, thanks to Magneto trying to recruit the Blob, a freak physical slam made his memories come back and thus he temporarily agrees to be Magneto's allies to track down and face the X-Men as what the cover clearly indicates
What is of more importance is the fact that this issue sees Cyclops taking the leadership role as Prof X takes a sabbatical! And so we see Scott struggling to balance his sense of obligation, his duties and his growing love for Jean
Other than that, it is a ho-hum kind of issue for us
Ratings: 4/10
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