STORY: "Holocaust" (20 pages)  As Kukulcan, El Tigre returns to San Rico and starts to rebuild his ancient city, enslaving the local descendents of the Mayans.  The X-Men fight him, and Kukulcan accidentally triggers an earthquake which destroys the city.  El Tigre returns to normal and the X-Men capture him.

What you need to know:
Calvin Rankin turns up at Metro College.  Of course, he doesn't have any memory of fighting the X-Men as the Mimic.  This kicks off an odd little storyline in which the Mimic becomes the first new member to join the team (only to leave almost immediately).

Scott finally twigs that Jean likes him too, and decides to talk to her after the mission.  Only took him three years.

Jean is off at Metro College, so she doesn't go on this mission.

A more innocent time:
Ramon and Toloc still look decidedly white to me.

Comments:
A definite improvement on the previous issue.  The ancient Mayan stuff is much less jarring than the Latin American riffs.  Actually, the idea of Kukulcan coming back and enslaving the descendents of the Mayans to repopulate his city is quite a good one, and Werner Roth does a reasonably good version of the god.

But it's still nothing to write home about; we're going through a phase of somewhat forgettable stuff here.

FEATURE CHARACTERS
Professor X, Cyclops, the Angel, the Beast, Iceman and Marvel Girl I

SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
Ted Roberts
Calvin Rankin (last in issue #19)

VILLAINS
El Tigre (next in Ka-Zar: Lord of the Hidden Jungle #3)
Ramon and Toloc (no further appearances for either)
The Banshee (behind the scenes; last in Generation X #-1)
Factor Three: the Mutant-Master, the Ogre, the Changeling (chronologically earliest appearance for all three), the Blob, Unus the Untouchable (both last in issue #20), Mastermind I (last in issue #11) and the Vanisher (last in issue #2; all behind the scenes)

OTHER CHARACTERS
Kukulcan (next behind the scenes in Thor vol 1 #301)

Written: 22 September 2004

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