Uncanny X-Men: Poptopia (#2)

"Iceman/Nightcrawler find Chamber and try to convince him that even though he's not a student anymore, he has a responsibility to try and show the world that not all mutants are bad and his shacking up with Sugar Kane isn't helping anything. He doesn't listen, of course. And the team engages Mr. Clean, who decimates then and the big guns are called in to handle the situation."

3 Stars

Pros: Nightcrawler is a truly likable character with very few flaws, not something that can be said about most of the X-Men

Cons: Again, same old, bad humans are out to exterminate mutants/Racism etc.

Full Review:

***Spoiler Alert***

Iceman and Nightcrawler find Chamber squatting in an old hotel and ask him what he thinks he's doing, shacking up with Sugar Kane and making newspaper headlines. They try make him realize that just because he's not a student of Xavier's anymore doesn't mean he can ignore the responsibility he has to show the world that mutants aren't all bad.

He complains that they don't know what it's like, that they don't have to worry about going out in public without people staring, though Nightcrawler basically knocks him down a peg. They leave him to wallow in his own self pity.

Archangel has tracked down Mr. Clean and he, Iceman and Nightcrawler engage. He fights them all and ends up shooting his own flame thrower and making it explode, thus ending the fight. He, of course, disappears without a trace. So they have to call in the big guns.

Chambers still shacking up with Sugar Kane, trying not to let her lacks attitude or obvious exploitation of him to spice up her teeny bopper image and at the end Wolverine comes to town to save the day, of course.

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