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...where she finds herself at the wrong end of a fire extinguisher (Claremont really doesn't care for Amara, does he?) and Sam Guthrie, who has taken up the dwarfs' cause and fights alongside them.
Having successfully stopped Amara's attack, Sam and the dwarfs are able to...
...accidental ascension as a Valkyrie of Asgard.
Dani's relationship to Brightwind is only just beginning, but will become a hallmark of her character as she develops over the years–and an important ground for stories exploring the conflict between these two aspects of her...
...yesterday's tweets led us to the first meeting of Dani Moonstar and the trapped pegasus, Brightwind.
While Dani's ~animal empathy~ plays into some not-great-tropes about indigenous mysticism, that expectation is somewhat subverted when its spiritual nature leads to her...
Ororo the Wind-Rider, First of Her Name, She-Who-Swam-with-Acanti, Hadari Yao, Mistress of the Elements, Founder of Krakoa and Shaper of Mars, Goddess Among Mutants, Regent of Sol
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As we bring this Frost-Giant-Sized thread to a close, our last vignette brings us to Sam, the beanstalk teen who finds himself in the realm of the dwarfs.
Where as the other kids' vignettes centered on a critical weakness or some emotional Achilles' heel, Sam's centers itself...
...said about a literal-death-goddess's infatuation with the poor alien's powers.
In a number of ways, New Mutants (as a series) has been about confronting a loss of innocence, which leaves me wondering what that process might have more fully looked like for Warlock had it...
...to fight back the bar's serving maid.
Because the woman is Asgardian (read: superhumanly strong), Doug's shame feels less about losing his fight against a girl, but instead more about the words she chooses in his defeat:
"No god, no hero––he is less than nothing."
...and the New Mutants, along with Ororo, are magically summoned into the Realm of the Gods.
Even if LifeDeath II offered her closure as she learned to embrace her humanness in the face of her mutant erasure, Loki's machinations prove a deadly lure for her that will test her...
...team are planted early in issue, hinting towards the vices or insecurities each of the kids will later have tested in Asgard.
Of them, it's Illyana's self-importance, Doug's insecurity, and Roberto's waning interest in fighting for a world that hates and fears him.
...cope with the loss of her identity and alternations made to her body without consent. It's a heavy beat that feels like even more closure for Ororo following LifeDeath II, closure that Loki otherwise seeks to upend.
The seeds of Claremont's coming character work with the...