Anatomy of an X-Team: Case Study 1 – Uncanny X-Men (Gold Team) #281-321
Last time I posited that X-Men and X-Men franchise team rosters tended toward seven basic roles that I refer to as The Template, and that series runs that doubled up on too many of these roles or left too many unfulfilled suffered for it. Contrariwise, those runs that hewed closest to The Template were best…