x men:mutant massacre review/The x men event that changed everything(literary)

                   


The mutant massacre is x men's first crossover event ever. Originally intended as a single story in the pages of X men, Louise Simonson,the writer on X factor and Power Pack at the time, suggested crossing over,alongside Louise's husband Walter Simonson, writer of Thor, and Ann Nocenti, writer on Daredevil.
The issues included :
Uncanny X men:210-213
New Mutants:46
X factor:9-11
Power Pack:27
Thor:373-374
Daredevil:238

The story is pretty simple, a bunch of bad mutants, the Marauders, go ahead and basically, as the name suggests,massacre the morlocks(mutants who live in the sewers of manhatan, because they don't look like "normal people"). Pretty cheerful times i know.
The Marauders are the newly appearing                                 Riptide,Harpoon,Blockbuster,Scalphunter,Scrambler, Malice, Archlight, Prism, Vertigo(a savage land mutant who appeared a few years prior) and finally Sabretooth, who makes his first appearance in an X men story and hasn't appeared since Iron fist #15,a whole decade prior.
They are hired to do this by a mysterious person for a mysterious reason.









The story is overall great but probably the things its actually remembered for is that this is the

beginning of Wolverine and Sabretooth's rivalry. In probably one of their most brutal fights ever. Hell Sabretooth even fights Daredevil when Logan isn't around.
Also this is the story where Angel gets his wings butchered and things got blue later on. Not only that a lot of the characters got injured or sidelined for a pretty long time, even freaking Thor didn't left unscathed after this.



So what happened in the aftermath of this,well
-this would eventually lead to future X men events right after this
-Psylocke(who isn't Asian at the time) would finally join the team
-some of the x men would go and form Excalibur later on
-and yeah Archangel happens




Favourite issue:I have 2 actually Power Pack 27 and Uncanny X men 213
The first one is mostly due to the heart-breaking scene of, the Morlock,Leech learning of the death of his caretaker Annalee, it hits hard man.
And the second one is pretty much the conclusion of the story with Wolverine and Sabretooth's drag out fight,and Psylocke proving herself to the X men.



Least favourite issue:Uncanny X men 210
Exept for the final scene nothing connects to the event at all, i personally think its a waste of a great cover(the one at the beginning of this post).


Overall the story is a solid 3 adamantium claws out of 3, definetly would recommend.