They backtrace the call to Chile, visit, and get involved in a plot regarding the Savage Land Mutates and Zaladane, a villain first introduced in Astonishing Tales #3. She claims, on the basis of her name, that she is the sister of Lorna Dane.
#250 uses the word "katabatic". That's a good word. I like it. Shame about the rest of the issue, which consists of an old-school team-up between the X-Men and Kazar to kick Zaladane's ass and save Lorna. This series has completely lost its way now, which is possibly meant as a kind of metaphor because so have the X-Men, but still.
This series has completely lost its way now, which is possibly meant as a kind of metaphor because so have the X-Men, but still.
ReplyDeleteYeah, for better or for worse, I think that was intentional. This is the beginning of Claremont's "break down the team and write the book without featuring the characters in any traditional way, or even together in one issue, for as long as I can" run, arguably because he himself is starting to lose his way and his trying to inject some of that into the book and/or renergize himself.
It's a bold move that had potential, but it never quite pays off, in large part because it suffers from inconsistent art. Also, from being boring for large swaths of time.