He calls Professor X Charlie and gets reprimanded. He gets stuck with the new kid (Kitty) who's never been on a field mission. He gets in Xavier's face and tells him where he can stick this task and Xavier doesn't back down. I've been a fan of the storytelling of X-Men First Class (set during the formative years of the original x-team) and this feels similar. The formative years of the Giant-Sized team play out here. We see a volleyball match, we see the wonder that Kitty sees as she looks on at the team she has just recently joined, and it's all in the glow of brand-new. No massive continuity to worry about. It fits right in the middle of all the events that we know transpired around that time.

And Wolverine and Kitty as the team that they were just makes this fan boy happier still (as I'm sure in the next two weeks Kitty will either die or be left in space because Mr. Whedon doesn't want other people playing with his toy). Like I said previously, the plot is pretty generic. Xavier sends them to find a mutant who is exerting a lot of energy in her hometown. They go and the townspeople don't want their kind there (which we later learn is the young mutant girl sending out a stress beacon which causes the townspeople to become stressed by their visitors and Wolverine to go into a rage). It's all there on the page, it's all things we've seen before.

But it feels so fresh. There's no Skrulls to be found. No invasion occurring within these pages. And I'm hooked. It's on my pull and it's not going anywhere.