Is it strange to say this issue is simultaneously self-contained and utterly connected to everything that surrounded it? Perhaps, but that is the case here. You can see the era of "writing to the trade" on the near horizon but it isn't here yet and that makes issues like this one possible. Gone were the days of endless self-contained issues but the era of the mega-arc was still just out of reach. Finding issues like this one is like finding that one last piece of chocolate in a full candy jar. Read Full Review

The best issues of Lobdell’s run always come in between the huge sprawling epics. While this one isn’t as amazing as some of these other issues I still liked this one. The art is 10x better than the art of the other X-books at the time. I cant tell whether Uncanny X-Men 337 is trying to be a light hearted issue after the insanely dark Onslaught Saga or another darker, yet touching issue that examines Professor X. All in all, the additions of Joseph and Pietro have a lot of potential for the last leg of Lobdell’s X-Men