This is one of the best X-Men stories ever written, although there are a lot of really hokey/dated/unintentionally racist elements. In the early 80s, the previously terribly selling X-Men books began their surge that would last until today, mainly once they started being more political and using the X-Men as analogies for how minorities of all kinds were/are treated. Back then, it mainly meant racial minorities, but today the X-Books are often about how homosexuality is treated in society. This graphic novel, written by now awful Chris Claremont, deals with a crazy evangelical minister William Stryker who uses his clout to incite hate crimes against mutants, and also to design a supercomputer for Professor X to use and inadvertently kill all mutants. It's pretty good, except for one part where Kitty Pride runs into a street gang that is literally made up of every non-white ethnicity you can think of, so that's racist, but hey, it was the 80s and you couldn't throw a stone without hitting racism.RATING: 67%
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