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Over the next several pages, and despite their best efforts, the New Mutants are picked off by the Beyonder one by one.
Amara–the girl who could raise mountains–and Sam–the boy who could fly–are crushed beneath the Earth.
Warlock is drained of his lifeglow, Doug ended with...
Rahne's cries of hopelessness.
Amara–this daughter of Rome–in a rare moment of absolute plot focus–turns her strength full blast against the Beyonder, assuring Rahne that as long as she lives and can fight, there is hope.
Their seeming victory over the Beyonder ultimately...
...felt by these children as their friend disintegrated before their eyes.
The New Mutants' grief quickly spins into rage, and the team attempts to fight back against the omnipotent being as valiantly as they can despite the futility of their actions.
Each has their gifts...
...all, wasting no time in calling in the cost of Illyana's rejection and murdering her in cold blood in front of the team.
Sometimes as a clinician, I have to suspend my disbelief at the trauma superheroes endure in their day to day–but I simply couldn't dismiss the horror...
...distracting from the issue's main plot and more disruptive to its momentum than a welcome reprieve from its devastation.
Roberto is in search of home–an important thread given the relevance of 'found family' to Claremont's work and queer readings of the text–and yet I had...
...really have a great artistic chemistry that communicates the gravity of the issue and these conversations; even in the lighter transition to visit Roberto in his leave.
While the vignette is important in helping Roberto begin to reclaim his heroism and identity, I found it...
...and Dani flees from the mansion and her grim visions on Brightwind's back where she perceives a vision of her grandfather telling her a story of her tribe's genocide by colonizers and doubts if their path was righteous.
As was the case last issue, Wilshire and Sienkiewicz...
...when those apparitions, specific to each New Mutant's conception of death, hang above the heads of the team that has become her family.
Death is of course an inevitability, but that doesn't mean any teenager is prepared to be burdened by the foreknowledge of its arrival...
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...her timeline and their shared experience of surviving a genocide.
Jonathan Hickman's current run on the X-Men has revitalized (or at least given name to) the concept of the mutant circuit, and there were several moments throughout the brawl with the Sentinels...