Conor ⊗🔺さんのイラストまとめ

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...

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...