STORY: "Dad" (22 pages)  Cyclops spends the weekend in the countryside with his father Corsair.  They bridge some of the distance between them.

What you need to know:
Cyclops returns to the X-Men (complete with a new costume abandoned three issues later).  He's just been freed from Apocalypse's mind control in the miniseries X-Men: Search for Cyclops.

Other than that, it's pretty much a throwaway.

Comments:
This is a pretty shameless piece of time-killing.  Strictly speaking, the contribution to the wider storyline is to reintroduce Cyclops into the book after X-Men: Search for Cyclops.  But really, it's just two characters spending a weekend in the country.

That being said, it's actually very good.  These low-key character pieces are what Lobdell's best at, and this really does work as a depiction of a completely failed relationship.  Cyclops finally complains about his father's complete failure to come back to Earth for him after he escaped the Shi'ar.  In retrospect, this and the next couple of issues play somewhat into Grant Morrison's idea that, after being possessed by Apocalypse, Cyclops would use this as an excuse to show sides of his personality he'd been suppressing for years.

Leaving that aside, though, it really is a very nice issue full of horribly awkward forced intimacy between two characters who don't really know one another that well at all.  A hidden gem in this largely-forgotten run of issues.

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FEATURE CHARACTER
Cyclops (rejoins the X-Men; last in the second story in X-Men Unlimited #31; next in Amazing Spider-Man vol 2 #36)

SUPPORTING CHARACTER
Corsair (last in issue #387; next in the third story in X-Men Unlimited vol 1 #32; also in flashback following the flashback in issue #108 and preceding the flashback in X-Factor vol 1 #115)
Raza (in flashback which is his chronologically earliest appearance, preceding Classic X-Men #14)

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