Confession time: In my quest to read as much of the X-Universe as possible, I have been picking up issues of the 80’s Dazzler run.  I’m not proud.  I haven’t even told anyone I work with.  I’ve been putting on false moustaches and really dark glasses and going to our competitors.  I’ve got splinters from bumping into dollar bins.

What sucks is, I don’t even really like Dazzler.  I never understood what Longshot saw in her.  It’s just a continuity thing. 

I think this issue can be summed up by the creative grammarization by Jim Mccann: “I wish I could say this is the first time something like this has happened to me before.”  It gives the impression of being some Grant Morrison style cosmic philosophizing (I’m not being disparaging here…sometimes I like it when he does that.).  Sadly, that is not the case. This comic is a mess.

There’s her sister (I recognized her from the covers I overpaid for), there’s Murderworld, there’s roller skates, there’s even Utopia.  It’s everything you could possibly why would you ask for. (See, I can write that way, too.)  It’s over-the-top, and to me, not very fun.  But, then, I haven’t read any of her original series, yet, and mostly remember her as the pre-Jubilee who battled Doom and The Fantastic Four in F4 vs. The X-Men.  Maybe this is exactly what her comic used to be like.  If that’s true, I regret already the purchase that I have made before.