Someday The X-Men Will Get Good - Today is Not That Day
There's no way to candy coat this - this issue of The X-Men is bad.
At many points while reading this issue I was tempted to give up - but I stuck it out to the end. Why do I say it's bad? Nearly every page is filled contains something goofy or incredibly coincidental or both. On the very splash page, the X-Men are sitting down to dinner and Scott blasts Hank with his eye beams for reaching across the table. Meanwhile, Bobby covers a piece of pie with a mound of snow, because that's going to make it better.
After that opening, Professor X and Magneto simultaneously decide they need to recruit the Sub-Mariner to their side. Then Mastermind creates an illusion of cyclops and Magneto shoots his gun at it which almost kills Mastermind because he stupidly stood right behind it, but then when he dodged - way off in another part of the building, by coincidence, Scarlet Witch was in the beam's path, but Quicksilver somehow knew the beam was coming and that she was in its way and so races and saves her.
O.K. once silly exchange happens, we go back to the X-Men who are practicing in the Danger Room. Xavier leaves them because they have plenty to work on, such as Angel flying through one of Iceman's snow lassos!?!
O.K., nevermind that, so what did Professor X leave to go do? Well he went to go use his astral form to go looking for Namor - that is until his astral form bumps into Magneto's astral form (didn't know Magneto could do that too, did you?) because, you know all the oceans of the world don't take up that much space, so naturally they would run into each other walking on the bottom of the sea.
Anyway, you get the idea - it pretty much continues that way, with the X-Men renting a full size sailing ship and crewing it all by themselves (what? of course they're all experienced sailors - duh), but of course their giant wooden vessel is smashed to splinters when Magneto aims "the largest magnet on earth" (literally a giant horseshoe magnet) directly at the clipper - thus destroying it through THE POWER OF MAGNETISM!!!
Ugh. There is the predictable fight with X-Men vs. Brotherhood and Sub-Mariner switching back and forth between the two before saying to hell with it and going home.
Someday the X-Men will get good. Today is not that day.
