Conor ⊗🔺さんのイラストまとめ

...with the rest of the X-Men to clean up the more recent wreckage of their actions fighting the Beyonder.

Even though he doesn't arrive in issue until its ending, the ripple of his horrible acts in New Mutants has reached into Uncanny, with Kitty again manifesting the armor...

...similar themes to LifeDeath II, where Ororo learned to navigate and balance the ways of the "old" and "new" worlds after witnessing technology (and greed associated with it) undoing the success of Shani and Mjnari's tribe.

The final interesting moment in the issue comes...

...death while working for Twelvetrees.

"Natural" mutant life being ended by technology has been a long-running theme of the series–and the basis for Forge's crime against Ororo–with which the reveal of Jack's death by Twelvetrees technology tracks.

Twelvetrees' greed traces...

...and are especially resonant given their presence in her "worst nightmare" as it were.

When the zombies are revealed to be real, not imagined, Ororo flashes back to a conversation with a newly widowed woman whose grief motivates Ororo to investigate the nature of the man's...

Not-Forge's presence isn't the only through line I found to the LifeDeath books, either.

After her initial depowering and in the issues that followed, Ororo saw herself as half alive: not quite dead but not living, either.

The undead zombies are almost symbolic of the state...

...surprisingly immersive, which can be a real gamble when it's used.

While the backup to Classic X-Men #20 can be read purely as filler, I found its themes to run fairly parallel to LifeDeath I and II, even if Ororo's wardrobe firmly places it long before either story.

...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)...