On to Uncanny X-Men, and part 2 of "World's End."  Basically, most of it's a big fight between the X-Men and some evolved dinosaurs.  Since it's Alan Davis, who could illustrate the phone book and make it look good, I'm happy enough with that.  I can't say I'm really all that interested in these dinosaur guys or where they come from, but boy, they sure look great.

Otherwise, we have more of the return of Psylocke.  And that's a strange little sequence.  Claremont appears to be working on the basis that Psylocke only has telekinetic powers - after all, if she had telepathy, she wouldn't be complaining about the X-Men leaving her behind without any way of contacting them.  But then she inexplicably goes off on one of those "jaunt to the astral plane" sequences so that we can cryptically dramatise some internal monologue and remind everyone about the Jamie Braddock subplot.  It doesn't really make sense, when you stop to think about it.  Looks great, though.

Of course, Claremont can't get through a storyline without a mind control sequence, so Rachel gets enslaved by the dinosaurs.  He really needs to give it a rest with the mind control stuff.  It's obviously a pet theme of his, but he's just hammering it into the ground.  It really seems like it's in absolutely every plot, regardless of the villain or the subject.  Surely he can't be that short of ideas, and the audience who are that obsessively interest in mind control must be very specialist indeed.  Not to mention slightly creepy.

Anyhow.  Pretty.  Nice fighting.

Rating: B+

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