[Captain Nash]

@Dr Kain, I forgot to mention on your write up of X-Men 145-150. Yeah I kind of felt that a lot of that was low points in Claremont's run, too, with the exception of issue #150. You are so close to the original Brood saga (most of the 160's). Such a fantastic story. I honestly rank it as #3 or #4 of the approximately first half of Claremont's run (prior to Mutant Massacre when all the crossovers start coming in.) Definitely DOFP and Dark Phoenix are #1/2 and debatable which is which, and I'm torn on the Brood Saga and the original Phoenix Saga being #3 and #4. After the Brood saga comes the Morlocks and introduction of Rogue to the team, but after that it kind of goes more into a more characterization/less action mode, still great stuff especially by today's standards but not quite as intense, especially as there is not a particular single storyline/arc but rather 30 odd issues that don't have a set story, if you get what I'm saying.

Enjoy the reading though man, the first Claremont run is IMO the gold star of comics, the best you can get. Good times good times.