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A queer boy's journey into Claremont's sixteen year long run on the X-Men- from Krakoa to Muir Island. Often quite concerned about the New Mutants. (He/Him).
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...into a state of submissive terror once her reality sets in seems counter to any Jean I would have expected to read by this point in publication.

But that, in and of itself, is the problem we'll face again and again as we begin the rollout of X-Factor week(s)–for the first...

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If Phoenix was Jean, rather than Jean the Phoenix, it does mean that her development under Claremont can be hand-waved away.

Jean's capacity for rage is present in the story from the moment she's ripped from the safety of her Jamaica Bay cocoon, but her immediate fall...

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...stories (not without error, but far better than most)–but Byrne writes Jean in a way that makes the character barely recognizable.

But with Shooter's mandate and super-fan Kurt Busiek's ideas in place, Jean is ultimately more of a tabula rasa than defined person.

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...has personal implications; if he can be good and noble and heroic, maybe she can be, too.

In defense of his teacher, Warlock prepares to drain the lifeglows of the assembled Avengers, but Erik quells his rage through an attack of his own.

Captain America was the first of...

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...as a character beat, just as her ability to recognize that in *this* instance, the "hero" team is in the wrong.

More than any other New Mutant, Illyana is defined by a moral greyness.

Perhaps for more than any student, Erik's presence at the mansion and redemption means...

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...past or risk putting Warlock in any graver danger.

Even in a moment of earned rage as Capt. America throws Namor's participation in the fight against the Nazi regime during WWII in Erik's face, Erik withholds from decimating the Avengers, only fighting enough to keep alive.

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...the permanence of that redemption; with every day the kids are gone he slips further and further back into the rage that defined the monster that came before the man.

I can't help but feel like Dani's final moments with Erik are a last-ditch effort to save the man from...

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...when one of his student's most inner desires was just a nod of his approval.

Erik's grief–and turn to alcohol–are seriously gut-wrenching to read, a testament to how believably Claremont paints his hoped-for redemption in the Trial alone.

There's a real tenuous sense to...

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...for the Hellions, it's clear that they've grown under her tutelage since their last appearance; she might be stern, but they are clearly cared for and less evil than you'd assume given their instructor.

Closer to rivals than outright enemies now, the New Mutants & Hellions...

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...the change in administration at the school. The New Mutants' deaths are demonstrably NOT Erik's fault–but his words only heave more guilt into the flailing man's lap.

Outside, Empath is, as always, the worst, and emotionally compels Sharon and Tom to fuck to death (???) as...

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