Punch Up: “To Me My ❌-Men”

Chapter Six:

May, 1982 The Uncanny X-Men No. 160 by Anderson, Claremont, Wiacek, G. Wein, Orzechowski, + Louise

Mixtape track: More Than This by Roxy Music

Previously on “to me my ❌-Men”: Chrismukkah, Monsters, a Teenager, oh my! Pirates, Popshow, Stranger Danger, mallrat vibes. Zany, ninjas, guns, hard boiled pulp fiction! We begin appropriately in comics tradition, “Somewhere/Somewhen else:”

Fastball special. Take a drink.

Illyana, at the age we last left her, age six, holding her Fozzy Bear! While the X-Men are Dangerooming and someone with amazing nails is observing from beyond.

And she is just following the nailed hand’s voice. GREEEEEEAT.

Kitty’s got this.

Nope.

We are getting an update in Storm’s mind, something about her and Dracula and Chuck is in another coma. Yadda yadda. The adults are not on top of caring for the 6 year old and trusted the 13 year old. Wolverine even noticed the events and just barely recalled them when asked.

Now all the adults have been disappeared too!

“Elsewhere…”

Kurt is getting handsy with Kitty. So no Kurt. Belasco is the one with nails, and has disappeared everyone to his thrown, castle?! Ororo and Peter are using the buddy system, which fails, cause tentacles and another teleportation disk, like the ones that moved them all from the school.

Kitty is frozen and now Not Kurt has hand near Illyana, but Belasco has standards?!

Ah they are in Limbo. Love that place.

Apparently this is Logan’s bones on the ground. They brake easy. As S’ym enters. So yes, S’ym and Not Logan’s bones.

Belasco says he loves Illyana and gives her an inverted Pentagram locket.

Kurt is hiding in the dark, observing…as he should.

Ororo awakes naked (take a drink) and goes for a swim.

Not Kurt and Kurt fight.

Wolverine finds Not Peter corpse? Wolverine v S’ym.

Now actual Peter is helping.

A cloaked figure is recognized by Logan through sent. Oh it’s an older Not Ororo.

Who saves the day.

But at the last second Belasco gets Ilyana…and then in the next page Kitty and friends retrieve her from a teleportation disk…only now she is 13, like Kitty. Illyana has the pentagram pendant and Belasco has Fozzy Bear. The End…of the chapter.

So now we have a bit of magic and some complex aging to unpack.

Next: Uncanny 168