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X-Men #5 Fantastic Discoveries (or, It's Clobberin' Time)

There's a tinge of sourness in the air after the X-Men's first meeting with the Fantastic Four. None of them are all they were cracked up to be. The leader of the team is aloof and dismissive. His thoughts are nowhere but in his science. The other members are brash and compulsive. In this world of emerging heroes, how will the superheroes find common ground if they can't find it in themselves to get along? Calling Reed Richards was a good idea. He'll take the pile of robot parts back to his lab and possibly even return to the school to examine Jim once more, and he'll find the traces of something fascinating. He'll see the humanity in this scrap heap. He'll discover the self-replicating material present in all living beings; the map of the living's genetic superhighway. He'll also discover that the robot that Jim calls his other was indeed female, however the inscription on some of the hardware says "M1OTHER," which looks more lik...