Prof X Abandons the Children

So this issues starts out like most other issues thus far, ridiculous training scenarios that make virtually no sense.

Homo-sapien: 2

Homo-superior: 1

During the training, Cyclops, the new leader of the X-Men, upsets Beat by being a dick and throwing a optical blast at him after the session had already ended. Beast and Iceman go to their favorite beatnik coffee spot to relax and on the way they see a kid in trouble. Beast saves the kid and gets assaulted by the crowd after saving the kid. Now, if someone goes out of their way to save a child the was stupid enough to climb into a water tower, the last thought I would have is attack the guy who saved him.

I see that Stan is finally starting the turn the public against the mutants. In the first couple issues, the public loved the X-Men, working to let them into restricted government areas and more, but now the public opinion is being swayed against them.

Then this new villain arises after Beast takes up a professional wrestling persona, Unus. This name is not good. I looked it up to see if it was inspired from a mythology or something, it is not. He apparently had a force field generation per that makes him basically invincible.

So , Beast goes back to the mansion and works on a device to defeat the invisible shield, the X-Men return after listing to this new menace, see him working on a device and immediately start attacking him without asking any questions as to his motive... GREAT FUCKING LEADERSHIP CYCLOPS. Dumb ass. So Beast makes a weapon to make Unus power so great that he can't touch anything. After he is subdued, everyone is like, "oh Beast, we knew you we on our side all along." LIARS! They were all against him without even trying to find out why he was doing what he was planning.

Final Thought: Professor left prematurely. A bunch of 18 year olds with super powers should not have been left unattended so quickly. Cyclops is not ready to lead.

TLDR: Cyclops leadership is a joke, Beast is under appreciated, and Professor X should not have left so soon.

Name

Unus the Untouchable!

Volume

The X-Men

Issue Number

Cover Date

November 1, 1964

In Store Date

N/A

Falls Apart in the Second Half 0

The X-Men #8 - Unus the Untouchable! by gc8 on June 24, 2013

The eighth issue of The X-Men starts out pretty good. The X-Men, though they've graduated, are still a team and are training together in the Danger Room under Cyclops, who seems to be an even sterner taskmaster than Professor X was.Later, Hank and Bobby save an imperiled child in Greenwich Village, only to be attacked by an anti-mutant mob. When they get back to Professor Xavier's School, Hank, disgusted, quits the team saying "I'm through risking my life for humans".So far this is a great comic...

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Hasty Decisions 0

The X-Men #8 - Unus the Untouchable! by uncas007 on July 10, 2011

After facing Magneto five times in their first seven encounters, the X-Men finally get a break against Unus the Untouchable. We have been waiting for sensible strategies from both the X-Men and the Brotherhood, and strangely enough Magneto is the one to provide it: sending Mastermind as a scout to persuade Unus to join them, instead of attacking full force like with Namor and the Blob. Fortunately there is no scene of Magneto's inexplicable mental powers; having seen him explore the spaceways ...

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