Conor ⊗🔺さんのイラストまとめ

...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...

...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.

...for the New Mutants, and perhaps a better moment than anything during his Trial that demonstrates his commitment to reformation.

Even totally justified in doing the opposite, Erik pulls his punches against the Avengers, unwilling to feed into their expectations of his evil...

...for them post-recovery.

As Erik and Warlock prepare to land at the Massachusetts Academy, Hercules of the Avengers attacks, leading Warlock to discorporate into a pile of techno organic silly string.

Erik's entire fight against the Avengers is characterized by his care...

...the Beyonder's attack against them.

Over the last two issues, I happy to point out Erik's failures in response to the kids' traumas, but all of that begins to turn around in New Mutants #40.

At last issue's close, Emma Frost placed a call to the local sheriff to warn of...

...then New Mutants #39 is what I hope pushes you over the edge.

Pollard and Barras really sell how undone Empath has left the Institute staff–Sharon's body language as she recounts the nightmare of her affair with Tom conveying just how violating and disturbing his actions are.

Once again jumping back to New York, Erik's shower (you're welcome @emilywritesgood) is interrupted by the return of Tom and Sharon dressed in kink wear that would make even the Morlock's proud.

If Empath's actions last issue weren't enough for you to immediately hate him...

...himself; but for now and too far gone, she has no choice but to leave him and Warlock behind at the mansion.

Back in Massachusetts, Emma's efforts have gone off a little rather less well than she had hoped as we learn that even with their sunnier dispositions returned...

...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...

...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...