Conor ⊗🔺さんのイラストまとめ

...largely made up of pre-existing characters, their dynamics are adversarial at best and unexplored at worst.

The X-Men is about found family; this is them at their "tolerable coworkers" phase. Unlike the X-Men of ten issues ago, this is a budding team unmoored by their lack...

...opener as one can get on Muir Island, Claremont helps establish the developing dynamic among the X-Men's newest members; the reality, though, is that there is little dynamic at all.

For the first time since Giant-Sized, the book feels entirely new. While its core cast is...

Good evening friends, and welcome back to another issue of our readthrough of the Claremont Run!

Tonight, we're reading (long-awaited by @olevelo) UXM #217, an issue which feels decidedly like the first truly post-Massacre story of the Run.

While the book isn't without its...

...choice to rescue the old soldier may ultimately doom her, but it does make her decidedly more human than Priscilla, whose wanton violence and self-preservation cast her as monstrous by comparison.

The girl (fool me once, etc etc) again turns on Ororo, but in short order is...

...have more in common than either would likely admit.

Ororo finds Priscilla, knocking her unconscious to use as bait to lure out their pursuers.

Her plan works, but her attack on Stonewall culminates in a decision to rescue him.

It may not make her "better"–after all, her...

...also mean a loss of the latter? If all that's left of her is her pledge, what might she be without it?

Even absent her mutant gift, Ororo's long relationship to the wind signals her of Super Sabre's arrival.

The takeaway being that it was Ororo that made her gift powerful...

Even for this almost unkillable mutant, though, the endurance test of being a Claremont-character proves too much; his animal state can't protect him from his pain–or himself–and the man breaks down, howling into the night.

Introducing the issue through Logan's mental state...

...well from being a typically Logan-specific matter to wider issue theme.

Following-up on his post-Jean-scent panic last issue, Logan's mental state has further deteriorated; "the beast gain[ing] ascendancy" as protection from the traumas he's endured in the last dozen issues.

...wartime "heroes" Crimson Commando, Super Sabre, and Stonewall.

Like Maddie attempted before her, Ororo does her best to overcome seemingly impossible odds, managing to fight off the three powered men for some time before ultimately falling prey to Sabre–a speedster's blast.

...points to just how damaged he's been by Malice's influence, a problem exacerbated by his growing semi-awareness of Jean's return and the distrust in his senses it's infused him with.

After smelling Jean's scent following their arrival at the wreckage at Sara Grey's home...