It’s an utterly beautiful story and gets to some of the character work Lee, Kirby and Thomas never got to: what it is like for a girl to be on a team full of teenaged boys.
So Professor asks Sue Storm to mentor Jean for a day. The first issue is a great example, with Jean trying out new things with her powers, while her well-meaning but adolescently awkward teammates are underfoot. The first limited series must have done well, because Parker came back for another 16 issues and they are mostly one-shots, all well-built, with charming, emotionally satisfying stories for new readers and lots of interesting Easter eggs for X-Men veterans. For this one, I read X-Men: First Class, Vol II, #1-16, which continued Jeff Parker’s excellent story of the original five X-Men, with art by Eric Nguyen, Roger Cruz, Nick Dragotta and others. My second post covered X-Men 21-23, some early cross-overs, and the 2006 series X-Men: First Class. I started in 1963 and am working my way up to the present, and I’m including not just the main series, but some significant cross-overs and the series that retcon some good stories.
I am continuing my perhaps Quixotic reread of The X-Men.
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