CC needed to learn not EVERYTHING should be shoehorned into Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Children.

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Now THERE's a point!

QUOTE: I heard about the Wolverine in the Hand story. Which honestly I find cool. Killing the Professor not so cool.

If it was just Wolverine being resurrected by the hand, I'd have to see how it played out.  Logan hooking with Jean?  I didn't need to know the specifics to know that I wouldn't have liked that. 

QUOTE: I like how they are delaying Madelyne vs Jean til the end. Im saving my biggest cat fight hiss for it. Yes I know thats immature.

If you ask me, not much of a catfight on Jean's end.
The anger is on Maddie's end, especially after she finds out who and what she really was.  Jean is actually trying to help her, but she's too far gone.

For anyone interested, Dazzler lasted until the early 250s where she wound up going through the Siege Perilous with several other X Men.  8-10 issues later, she shows up again and we see what happened to her after she went through.  That's 2 issues and I don't think she was in X Men again until the new series.
That was a Mojoworld story with her and Longshot.

I just finished it and it was great. It ended at a great point. So I want have to ait impatiently for volume #9 to come out. Just so much stuff I loved in this volume. rom the art with both Silversti and Walt Simonson to the writing and overall story.

I think a big thing for me is that there was character development at the forefront. But when it came time for the big fight it delievered big time. Honestly im not sure where they can go from here. But I thought Inferno was going to be a let down after Fall of the Mutants, and that Fall of the Mutants would not match Mutant Massacre. So I'll just wait and see.

 

QUOTE: If you ask me, not much of a catfight on Jean's end. The anger is on Maddie's end, especially after she finds out who and what she really was.  Jean is actually trying to help her, but she's too far gone.

Thats true Larry. I liked how none of Scotts bad things wee glossed over, and that it wasnt everybody acting like Maddie wasnt real. Instead they tried to save her. That said I can never pass up a chance to make cat fight sounds.

As for Longshot. Personally I like him on the X-Men. His bright sunny outlook is a nice contrast. I also like Mojo as an X villian. He i different and a nice change of pace from evil mutants or mutant hating humans.  

Looking on Amazon I see a preorder for Classic X-Men #3. It will do the remaining issues plus the Beast run in Amazing Adventures.

A bit torn on Classic X-Men vol 3. Waited for it a long time, then succumb and got the remaining "missing" issues in Masterworks format instead.

How good / important / much material do those AA stories involve?

I got the urge from looking at the covers on the mile high website.  They really pulled me in - I was thrilled to see The Beast fights The Griffin, one of my all-time favorite villains, and The Juggernaut, another favorite (although I'm curious to see how The Beast fares solo where the entire team had so much trouble).

The first two issues were abridged/reprinted in The Avengers 136, before Beast became a member.  I think.

He quit the first time. IIRC, he and Bob Harras were at odds on the direction of the book. I always figured that maybe Lee wanted to take things a certain way and Harras, as editor, was supporting Lee and Claremont got fed up and left. No idea if that's actually true, but what info we were given at the time ( the Claremont/ Harras tiff) it's what came to mind.

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I read once again in the "Creators On X-Men" book in the interbiews with Claremont and Harras, it was over the direction the book was to go in, and the popularity of Jim Lee.

Claremont says he wanted to go in new directions with the book, and that Jim Lee wanted to do stories with things that he loved about the comic in the first place, i.e. Magneto, The Savage Land, The Sentinels,etc. Claremont felt he had covered that ground too many times, and the editors took Lee's side as the books sales had increased again under his art.

Harras says pretty much the same thing except he sided more with Lee as his art was driving the sales of the book at the time.