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...her levitation and manipulation of an entire body of water is a feat that enhances the concern we're supposed to have for Jean's newfound power.

This backups, then, suffers a weird fate–to read this as if it were Jean demonstrates her struggles and sincere attempts...

...Jean's actions–but also makes the retcon all the more convoluted as we're forced to just go along with the notion that the omnipotent cosmic entity is relearning its own identity and power in this new form.

Morrison's later insinuation that "nope, it was just Jean" is the...

...in the third person, showing a certain depersonified aspect to her entire experience.

In the original Run, we're as aware as the team is of Jean's "replacement" by the Phoenix Force–but reading those issues through these backup volumes changes the context of nearly all of...

...opposite. While it's framed as "you shouldn't do this alone", it reads in effect as "you *can't* do this alone".

It's worth noting that through these retcons, Claremont builds upon the idea of the "replacement" Jean, as she talks of herself (as both Jean and the Phoenix)...

Just as many before it have, CXM #18 fleshes out Jean's experiences with the Phoenix Force (or technically, the Phoenix's experience with corporeal form...), putting more focus on her attempts to control and manage the power than were ever present in the OG run.

The backup...

...its end, when inspired by a picture of Nightcrawler at the circus, he figures out his final designs for his new play things.

Tl; dr: Mesmero is just the fucking worst.

...fail due to his restraint in unleashing the fullness of his fury against the team, and he is ultimately knocked to the ground by the combined might of the mesmerized Piotr and Scott.

Logan's ability to resist Mesmero's psychic attack isn't fully explained, but the villain...

...which gives the backstory to how the X-Men ended up under Mesmero's thrall during X-Men #111.

While the original story sees the team captured by Mesmero only to be freed by Beast, it doesn't fully explain how the mutants fell under his spell–nor his original designs for them.

...the wave of the Beyonder's hand. Rahne, the most virtuous and pious New Mutant–the youngest of her team–is left praying to a God that seems not to answer as another god destroys her form.

Dani, the harbinger of death and leader among her family, is left contemplating the...