Uncanny X-Men #194 (Jun 85): Juggernaut's Back in Town!Creative Team: Chris Claremont, writer; John Romita, Jr., penciler; Dan Green & Steve Leiahola, finishers; Glynis Oliver, colorist; Tom Orzechowski, letterer; Ann Nocenti, editor; Jim Shooter, editor-in-chief
Starting Line Up: Nightcrawler, Wolverine, Colossus, Shadowcat, Rogue, Rachel Summers
Guest Star: Storm
In New Mutants #28:
Empath arranges to kidnap Magma and Sunspot; Professor X and company mount an assault on Jemail Karami, David's third personality, only to learn that Jemail is the key that holds David together; David begins his recovery and meets his father. Synopsis: The Juggernaut has been spotted and the city put on alert. The X-Men hear the news reports and relunctantly agree to go keep an eye on him in case he starts causing problems. In Africa, Storm prevents a European big game hunter named Andreas from molesting the owner of a campground. She fights off the entire hunting party and makes them leave. The owner recognises Storm and begings to worship her. Back in New York, the X-Men watch Juggernaut as he goes to a bank and is just a regular customer. They all feel it's pretty useless. Nimrod zeroes in on Juggernaut's location and confronts him. Juggernaut doesn't back down and they begin to fight. Nimrod also recognises the X-Men and attacks them as well. The battle is moved to an empty construction site to prevent innocent people from being hurt. The X-Men want to just watch the battle and not take sides, but Nimord attacks the team again, so they have no choice but to act. Nimrod trounces both the Juggernaut and the entire X-Men team. He drops tons of steel gurters on top of the male X-Men, but Rachel creates a telekinetic barrier to protect them, although they are still trapped. Shadowcat has Rogue absorb her powers. Rogue phases into the gurters and absorbs both Colossus and Nightcrawler's powers as well. She uses all the combined powers to fight Nimrod alone, and even breaks him into thousands of pieces, but Nimrod keeps reforming himself. Nimrod eventually gives up and teleports away. Juggernaut didn't want to fight with the X-Men in the first place, so he just leaves. In Moscow, KGB super agent Col. Vashin (the Soviet version of Nick Fury, complete with eye patch) wants to know more about the mysterious Nimrod, as well as why the US turned on the X-Men. He fears the US is forcing mutants to become their enemies and that will lead the world to armageddon.
Yeah, but is it good? It is, but it's built around two simple concepts : 1) The need to get Nimrod over as a major threat and 2) to answer the question that was asked since Rogue joined the X-Men "What is she absorbed all heir powers and become Mimic '85? So does its goals based on these concepts? Wll Nimrod is made to look pretty near unbeatable in his first battle issue. Sure the Juggernaut has been beaten before and his unstoppable moniker is a bit of a joke by now, but no one ever beats him easy. Nimrod did, and on top of the X-Men. As for Rogue taking everyone's powers, she only did three, and it wasn't all that exciting. Fun enough issue, though. The X-Men watching Juggernaut doing his banking, waiting for a fight is pretty funny.
Significata: Nimrod finally attacks the X-Men. Col. Vashin worries about American mutant relations. First appearance of Andreas and his sister. Storm returns to Africa and starts trouble with them.
