Uncanny X-Men #47-48: And We Never Hear About Any of This Ever Again

I'm combining these two into one post not because they are one storyline, but because they are both so throwaway that I don't feel like they are worth writing much about.

First up we have a Beast and Iceman story, in which they are out on a date with Vera and Zelda when they run into the Warlock, going by the name Maha Yogi and using stage magic shows hypnotizing people into being his minions. They beat him (crazy how easy he is to beat down now this second time), end of comic.

Second we have a Cyclops and Jean Grey comic. It starts with them in their new civilian cover stories, with Jean Grey working as a model (with a lot of fan service swimsuit shots at the start), and with Scott pretending to be her jealous boyfriend. He also works at a radio news station, so that he can be on top of things happening. Then they fight some robot things, beat them, and it turns out the villain was Quasimodo, a sentient computer in a weird misshapen partially human body. It's weird.

X-tra Notes: Yeah, these are both really boring. BUT, one good thing did happen during this time. The writing switched from Friedrich to the Arnold Drake, a veteran comic book author even at the time, and the creator of both Deadman and the Doom patrol for DC. He will continue to write the comic for another half year after this.