Sean Gibson’s Reviews > The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus, Vol. 2 > Status Update

That Iceman solo story is a little gem.

"Sauron" is an intimidating bad guy name. "Karl" is not.

It's not your job to feed his ego, X-Men--I don't care how big and green and pterydactylish he is; you just keep calling him Karl so he knows he's not all that tough.

This is peak X-Men for me, so I'm not really saying this as a complaint, but it's amazing how much longer it takes to read a Claremont comic compared to one written by a normal human. I'm fairly certain these issues defy physics by cramming in more words per page than any known laws would allow for...

I get the "bad boys are hot" cliche, but c'mon, Storm...are we really going to swoon over disfigured dictators who talk in the third person, think a forest-green cape over body armor is the height of fashion and whose hobbies include tyrannical repression of the common folk? On the other hand, Von Dooms DO satisfy their lovers: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Nothing says Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah like a rampaging N'Garai.

i know I'm biased because it's the story that got me into comics, but the Dark Phoenix Saga gets me every time, dammit. That's some great character building and storytelling right there.