UXM 294: Warren as a ‘heckuva date'! There's a soft place in my heart for Angel. Of all the X-Men, I'll admit I like the original team the best, and Angel is just plain wonderful to look at.

UXM 306: Angel and Jean; "free fall" - this wonderful sequence is one of my favorites, beautifully rendering both mutants at play and the long-standing friendship (and touch of something more) betweeen Warren and Jean.

UXM 308: Hank (the Beast) starts a leaf fight with the other X-Men - a special moment, and one of all-too-few lighthearted times. Hank "The Beast" McCoy is one of my favorites; despite being covered with fur, he has hung onto his sense of humor. The Beast is one of the most level-headed of the X-Men. He certainly deserves a better girlfriend than that awful Trish person. (Are you listening, Marvel?)

UXM 274: Nice picture of Rogue and Magneto in the Savage Land story; Rogue has a somewhat sultry look here. (Almost -kiss inside, too.) This spark seems to have gone by the wayside now; not even a hint of it from him in their recent encounter with Magneto (see events up to and including "Magneto Rex").

UXM 244: Storm dancing with a Chippendale (male stripper). It isn't often that Storm/Ororo lets go like this.

UXM 245: Wolvie kissing Ororo. He also ‘kissed' her once while saving her from drowning, although I can't find the issue at the moment. Still, they're just friends.

UXM 242: Logan kissing Jean Grey. Logan/Wolverine once loved Jean, but gave up on her once she and Scott/Cyclops got married. This kiss occurred when Wolvie saw her again for the first time after her supposed death; just his way of saying ‘welcome back'. (Or perhaps ‘this is what you're missing', since his kiss had quite an effect on her, too!)

An early UXM (#?) had a brief cameo of two men named "Stan" and "Jack". (Get it? Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.)  I thought this was a cute in-joke, as well as an acknowledgement that the X-Men had changed somewhat since their inception.