Conor ⊗🔺さんのイラストまとめ

...its opening sequence is pretty grim, with Kurt left behind in the Beyonder's attack (for reasons he assumes are pity-based) on the team and still shaken by his encounter with the man.

While it's another future member of Excalibur whose development is defined by alcoholism...

Ironically, while I spent a lot of my coverage of Cockrum's limited series comparing it to the soapiness of Claremont's ongoing, I found myself wishing to have a bit of the book's whimsy back during this readthrough.

While Kurt ends UXM #204 in a better place than he started...

Back at the Mansion, Kitty and Illyana's continued fucking-around-with-spacetime-and-finding-out goes on, the two gifted with birds eye views of the fight–and its members similarity to Kitty's Fairytale–below.

Kitty tries to riff on Wizard of Oz, but Shagreen is simply not...

...from the darkness of our reality into the zaniness of others. Even as I found its cobbled together and a little too rushed to feel climactic or genuinely rewarding, it was absolutely, beyond all doubts, a lot of fun to read.

In issue, and with the lady Bamfs finally freed...

...his irreverent series conclude!

Before I dive too deeply into plot synopsis (there isn't... too much to cover, honestly), I think my main takeaway from the series is that, in a lot of ways, its Cockrum's mission statement on what comics should be.

Cockrum's exit(s) from...

...aren't all too different from their mainstream counterparts.

While Cockrum still doesn't award time to Kurt making out what this means to him and the parts of his identity that make a Bamf, he does introduce the concept of the Dark Bamf...

...of his traveling party's parallel members to the group.

Kitty (notably made older in her alter form here, to revisit yesterday's topic of her relationship with Piotr) is as much a magnet to (smol) Lockheed as her 616-counterpart is, making the argument that these alters...

...terms that a child would understand–and be able to process. But by making the fantasy reality, some of the story's punch is almost taken out of it retroactively.

As (big) Lockheed leads Kurt and his crew to Captain Kitty and her first mate Colossus, Kurt explains the idea...

...of Kitty's perspective on Kurt, I wish Cockrum had dug a bit more into about what the Bamfs' multiply demonstrated hyper-horniness says about Kurt–and how he might process that reality–but the time for introspection is interrupted when Shagreen returns to recapture Kurt.

...Kitty created hyper-dramatized versions of her teammates, reducing them to extreme versions of their character traits.

Throughout this series, Nightcrawler has been emphatic about explain what he is *not* (i.e. not a boggie), and while the Bamfs are an intense rendering...