text: Anyway, moving past all that -- I've always really liked this issue (I feel like I'm saying that a lot lately, but it speaks to the quality of this run). The concept of a whole issue devoted to subplots is, as you note, something that was unheard of at the time, and something that Claremont would perfect over the years -- but I feel like the idea never really caught on with most other writers until some time later. I can't remember the first time I read a "non-fight" issue of a book unrelated to the mutant franchise.