Miscellaneous Comments:    2 August, 1999

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    Strengths: It's cool to see the underdogs pull up and start to win.

    Weaknesses:

    Plotting: Heroes arrive. Heroes get captured. Heroes escape.

    Logic: Fine, except that Murderworld must be massive! Some of the 'cells' are huge. And they are all under that dump.

    Originality:

    Ending: Superb.

    For two reasons. First of all it brings us right back to where we started: Doom and Arcade watching Nightcrawler's cell on a monitor.

    Second: it means… the X-Men are about to fight back.

    Re-Readability: I suppose the added kick here is the novelty factor of seeing the X-Men made up of a team we never see: Havok, Banshee, Polaris and Iceman.

    Impressive Characters: Havok.

    He's the first X-Man to break out of his trap. He takes good offensive action and, best of all, he is the one who single-handedly saves the team. Sure, the others were free and were on their way to the control booth. But that's all moot. They didn't get a chance to do it, because he did it first.

    Impressive Writers: I love what Chris Claremont does with his characters. The sparring between Arcade and Doom, for instance, is excellent. And this episode highlights his flair for the dramatic. "We'd best return home, Alex," says Banshee at the end of their rescue mission. "I fear this night's battles… may be far from over." And all around them the winds howl.

    Cool.

    Impressive Artists: Dave Cockrum and Josef Rubinstein are on duty. And I love some of what they did. The lightning thing works a treat, and Havok looks great in some of the panels.

    Less-Than-Impressive Characters:

    Less-Than-Impressive Writers:

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    Continuity: This is part two of an ongoing story.

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GRADE: A

Review by Michael Leddy

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