Issue Description

Who shall lead the X-Men? Storm and Cyclops duel to determine the answer!

The X-Men get all gushy over little Nate. Scott and Maddy fight. Storm challenges Scott to a fight for the leadership of the X-Men. Storm out skills Cyke, even though she has no powers. Scott, Maddy, and Nathan leave for Alaska. Also around this time, in New Mutants #35, Magento becomes Headmaster of Xavier's school, in Xavier's absence.

Synopsis

The X-men have arrived home to see Madelyne and her son. They all love him and take turns commenting and collectively gawking at him. While there Rachel and Nightcrawler have a friendly scuffle with him tickling her. Kitty is left with the baby as Storm and Maddie talk. Maddie voices her problems with the X-men team’s presence in the life of her husband. She even wonders if he truly loves her considering he was absent for her child’s birth and was the only person not to call and check in on her.

Kitty hands the baby to Rachel who is still keeping the secret of being Scott and jeans daughter from an alternate time from Scott. She links with the baby’s mind and they have a tear-filled embrace. Scott muses over the disappearance of Professor X now that he needs him the most.

In space Binary informs the streamers that the ship is effectively lost in space floating. Lilandra and Charles must accept that he is stuck in space with no way of returning home.

On earth Cannonball’s computer crashes taking his term paper with it. While on he school grounds the team plays baseball. Kitty throws colossus bats and Rogue ends up in the sky catching the ball right as the president and secretary are on a flight to a meeting. They see her but plan o keep this between them.

Kitty departs from the match and help cannonball fix his computer and runs into storm who tells her Scott and Maddie are using her room to have a discussion about his fate with the x-men. He wants to stay especially now that Magneto is at the school. Maddie thinks he should quit as he has a responsibility to his son and his wife. He doesn’t think anyone else can lead especially with storm empowered. To put an end to things storm proposes a fight to determine who will lead.

Magneto and the new mutants are training when they are sent out and Cyclops and Storm enter. The duel has begun and all the x-men gather to watch. Wolvie is rooting for storm and invites everyone to place a wager. The danger room is turned into a destroyed city and storm uses the terrain to her advantage. Cyclops meanwhile is distracted by his conflicting feelings of leading the x-men and laving with Maddie. She cuddles her child and silently wishes for Scott to lose despite knowing it will break his heart to leave. Scott’s distraction leads to storm sneaking up on him and removing his visor. He is defeated and storm is now the leader of the x-men. As he leaves he wonders how much of a future he has with Maddie after everything he has done.

Rachel visit’s the Greys and places her essence into the homeopathic crystal along with her mom’s and wishes her grandparents goodbye. The watcher realizes the presence of the phoenix.

The Uncanny X-Men (1981)

Publisher

Marvel

Volume Description

This is a continuation of Stan Lee's and Jack Kirby's original The X-Men (Vol. 1). Beginning with issue #114 the descriptive "Uncanny" was added to the cover treatment but it wasn't until issue #142 that the volume's official name was permanently changed to Uncanny X-Men.

The title has had many creative influences over the years but Chris Claremont was probably the force that drove the title through many it its historic changes, truly bringing it from "the world strangest teens" into their new status a team of mutants fight in a "world that fears and hates them". During his legendary 15 year run he gave us character and stories such as Phoenix/Dark Phoenix, the Hellfire Club, the New Mutants, X-Factor, the Mutant Massacre, Inferno and Jubilee and numerous other historic heroes and events. This epic run ended after editorial disputes in 1991.

For the Uncanny X-Men Post-Schism, see Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 2).

Collected EditionsIssues #142-143 are collected in X-Men: Days of the Future PastUncanny X-Men Omnibus Volume 3 (#154-175)Issues #168-176 are collected in From the AshesIssues #199-209 are collected in GhostsIssues #210-213 are collected in Mutant MassacreIssues #225-227 are collected in Fall of the MutantsX-Men: Inferno Prologue (#228-238)Issues #239-243 are collected in InfernoX-Men: Inferno Volume 1 (#239-240)Issues #248 and 256-258 are collected in X-Men Visionaries: Jim LeeIssues #265-267 are collected in Gambit ClassicIssues #268-269 are collected in X-Men Visionaries: Jim LeeIssues #270-272 are collected in X-Tinction AgendaX-Tinction Agenda: Warzones! (#270)Issues #273-277 are collected in Crossroads and in X-Men Visionaries: Jim LeeIssues # 281-293 are collected in Bishop's CrossingIssues #294-297 are collected in X-Cutioner's Song (Hardcover)Issue #298-305 are collected in Fatal Attractions (Hardcover)Issues #308-310 are collected in X-Men: The Wedding of Cyclops and Phoenix #1 - TPBIssues #316-318 are collected in Generation XIssues #320-321 are collected in LegionquestIssues #322-326 are collected in X-Men: Road To Onslaught #1 - Volume 1Issues #327-328 are collected in X-Men: Road To Onslaught #2 - Volume 2Issues #329-332 are collected in X-Men: Road To Onslaught #3 - Volume 3Issues #334-335 are collected in The Complete Onslaught Epic, Book 1X-Men: Operation Zero Tolerance (#346)X-Men: The Hunt For Professor X (#360-365)Deathlok: Rage Against the Machine (#371)Issues #372-375 are collected in X-Men: The ShatteringIssues #376-377 are collected in X-Men Vs. Apocalypse: The TwelveIssue #378 is collected in X-Men vs. Apocalypse: Ages of ApocalypseIssues #379-380 are collected in X-Men: Powerless!Issues #388-390 are collected in X-Men: Dream's EndIssues #391-393 are collected in X-Men: Eve of DestructionIssues #394-409 are collected in X-Men: X-CorpsIssues #410-415 are collected in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1: HopeIssues #416-420 are collected in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 2: Dominant SpeciesIssues #421-427 are collected in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 3: Holy WarIssues #428-436 are collected in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 4: The DracoIssues #437-441 are collected in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 5: She Lies with AngelsIssues #442-443 are collected in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 6: Bright New MourningIssues #444-449 are collected in Uncanny X-Men - The New Age: The End of HistoryIssues #450-454 are collected in Uncanny X-Men - The New Age: The Cruelest CutIssues #455-461 are collected in Uncanny X-Men - The New Age: On IceIssues #466-471 are collected in Uncanny X-Men - The New Age: End of GreysIssues #472-474 are collected in Uncanny X-Men - The New Age: First FoursakenIssues #475-486 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar EmpireIssues #487-491 are collected in Uncanny X-men: ExtremistsIssues #492-494 are collected in X-Men: Messiah CompleXIssues #495-499 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: Divided We StandIssues #500-503 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: Manifest DestinyIssues #504-507 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: LovelornIssues #508-512 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: SisterhoodIssues #513-514 are collected in Avengers/X-Men: UtopiaIssues #515-522 are collected in X-Men: Nation XIssues #523-525 are collected in X-Men: Second ComingIssues #526-529 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: The Birth of Generation HopeIssues #530-534 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: QuarantineIssues #535-539 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: Breaking PointIssues #540-544 are collected in Fear Itself: Uncanny X-Men

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