Uncanny X-Men #17-18: Calling Daddy On Magneto

We follow up a really good story with the Sentinels with one that is honestly... really not that great. Magneto has returned! It explains how he escaped the Stranger, but honestly, who cares that much? And he has decided he is a strong independent super-villain who don't need no henchman. As the X-Men recover from their wounds, Magneto ambushes them one by one as they return to the mansion. He then puts them all in a gondola off a balloon to go up and up until they can no longer breath because, sure why not. Except Iceman who was still in a coma at the hospital while completely iced up. Also Angel's parents show up at the mansion and then Magneto uses Magnet Magic to hypnotize them into going to bed, and builds a machine to build ready to order mutant slaves from their dna as they have a mutant son. Sure, I guess that makes sense? Anyway, Iceman gets there, stops the machine, battles Magneto one on one while everyone else escapes the gondola and just as Magneto gloats that he can beat them all, The Stranger arrives, having been told of Magneto's escape by Xavier's mind powers. Then Magneto freaks out and takes off.

X-tra Notes: Seriously just didn't feel this one. It just felt too silly after such a good storyline with the Sentinels. The whole instantaneously building a machine to make mutant slaves from nothing, Magneto putting them in a silly death trap. The fact that there was only 2 storylines between "Magneto is gone forever" and "Wow, there's Magneto again". Just meh.