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...to Amanda, the subjectivity of trust (which would have surely been earned between the two sibling-lovers by now) playing a role in his understanding of the captive's reluctance.

Some Arcade genderplay later, Kurt's interference foils the assassin's plot, even as he appears...

...as Kurt had been throughout the issue's opening, the "true" Kurt returns almost immediately upon engaging in his rescue mission–his joy defined by his purpose as a hero and the thrill of the fight.

The girl's skepticism leaves Kurt to reckon to reckon with his harsh words...

...time is award to the woman who escapes by merit of her own wit and strength a number of Arcade's traps.

More than capable (in true Claremontian fashion) of surviving Arcade is quite the skill to list on the resumé, but the woman is ultimately rescued by Kurt.

As gloomy...

...Kurt takes more after his appearance than affect.

Recently Claremont used Arcade to shake Piotr out of a funk, a trope he returns to in UXM #204 as the mad assassin makes a grand reappearance torturing a new and yet to be named captive.

A fairly significant amount of page...

...but the venom he spits at Amanda, suggesting that his love of her is more manufactured than genuine is perhaps the cruelest Kurt has ever been written to be.

Claremont leans heavily into Kurt's demonic appearance to buttress Kurt's emotional turn, even going as far as...

...loomed over my head as Kurt slowly began to spiral out of control in the issue's opening.

Guest penciller June Brigman really captures the physicality of Kurt's depression–his balcony perch rendering him more gargoyle than man.

Kurt has rarely, if ever, been a "mean" man...

...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...