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...Nimrod who seeks mutant extinction? But what if, on the inside, that same genocidal robot wants to help a kid get his math homework done–and is even confused by his own budding compassion.
UXM #208 doesn't go many places because it spends most of its pages treading the...
...these grey spaces.
Sebastian Shaw is a wicked, vile man; and yet when he's written as he is in UXM #208, it's hard not to root for him against Selene's designs on the Hellfire Club?
The Hellfire Club is an unrepentant force of corruption, but compared to a monster like...
...but beginning him to do so just as her mother had tried to do once before.
Rachel's tragedy hasn't ended quite yet, but that doesn't mean it hasn't hit its lowest point.
Snikt!
...for release from the temptations of the Dark Phoenix.
This issue is very much Rachel's Dark Phoenix Saga–and proof to the suggestion that Jean's heel turn was a reaction to the violences committed against her more than it was an inability to manage her cosmically powerful...
...UXM #207, her distorted reflection in the barely reassembled mirror perfectly capturing the girl's internal state.
As Logan stirs awake from his injuries, it's revealed that his presence in Rachel's dreams is hardly coincidence, but rather the outcome of some cry for help...
...is hunted and killed by Logan.
Her nightmares create an interesting inversion in her identity–especially after her nightmares manifest her hound outfit–as hunted rather than huntress.
As compelling a character as she's been, Rachel's emotional growth has been stunted for...
...from the skies.
True to form, Claremont pauses the issue long enough to give Jessica–the latest in a line of editorially-spurned Claremont heroines–a moment to call Julia Carpenter out for sullying her good name, even if her gumption is nothing in the face of Julia's powers.
...for a few moments before Spiral sees through the rouse and zaps the former weather witch to the ground.
When Kitty's companion David tries to jump into battle with her, her dismissal that he's "only human" would be salt in Ororo's wound if not for her unconscious plummet...
...at some ease while outside, the Freedom Force arrives on scene and attacks.
Joined by a sort-of-newly-minted Spider-Woman Julia Carpenter (like here to give Jessica Drew something to angst about, as is Claremont's favorite thing to do with his disparaged female characters)...
...lash out, throwing a telekinetic tantrum (that should really scare anyone even remotely familiar with the Phoenix Force).
Rogue's recent processing of her own guilt and traumas (which are... very different than Rachel's but we appreciate the effort, chère) seems to put her...