X-Men: Days of Future's Past's Past
After giving us one of the best issues of the early The X-Men last issue, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby follow it up with a pretty slipshod issue.
To give you an idea of just some of the silliness of this issue:
It begins with the Sentinels headquarters firing 'Nature Activator Rays' at the X-Men, causing ground to heave beneath them and boulders to randomly fly at them.
In response to this, the X-Men flee a distance and then execute 'Plan G' (why is it always Plan G? I swear SHIELD, The Avengers and even the X-Men once before have used 'G') which is to have Iceman create a giant ice disc with two poles for hand holds and then have Iceman and Beast stand on it while Scott blasts it with his eye beams to cause it to fly through the air. Of course it wobbles and Angel flies after to rescue them (why couldn't he have just flew them there in the first place?). Obviously this plot point has so much wrong with it that I can barely begin to wonder what they were thinking.
But it doesn't stop there - oh, no - the Professor blasts Sentinels, who are essentially robots, with psychic attacks; the invading X-Men encounter a Sentinel who not knowing what to do with them because it's not in his programming (never mind that every other Sentinel is somehow programmed to kill mutants on sight) decides to take them to the leader; and that leader, Master Mold, has Bolivar Trask put Beast under a 'Psycho Probe' (yes, like Dr. Doom they have a gadget for every occasion) which causes him to relate his long, boring origin story (hint: he's a mutant).
There's more, but you get the idea.
This issue could have been awesome - the X-Men having to attack and penetrate the Sentinels' base is a really great concept - too bad it wasn't given the attention it deserved.
