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...Dani plans to use her mutant power to distract Farouk with another apparition of Charles Xavier.
When her gift returns imagery of the Vietnam War, instead, Dani realizes that her attack has impacted Xi'an, free of the Shadow King's influence.
With victory too easily had...
...and out of Farouk's reach.
The kids, finally reunited fully as a team for the first time since the arc began, fight valiantly against the Shadow King as the powerful entity begins to repossess them.
With Rahne back under his command, the Shadow King attacks Warlock while...
...and personal relevance–the theft of a girl's body and soul by a wicked man–that makes her centrality in this story at least make some sense.
Using Warlock to impersonate her, "Illyana" submits to the Shadow King as all the while the true Illyana teleports the kids to Limbo...
...complain about Illyana's saturation in New Mutants' stories, her prominence as the solution to other characters' central villains (e.g. Dani & The Demon Bear) does undermine my investment in those characters.
Her fight against the Shadow King, at least, bears some thematic...
...to and begins to formulate how she might fight for the New Mutants' freedom.
The Shadow King releases Ororo from his thrall just long enough to taunt her personally with the helplessness of her situation as Illyana teleports into the Pharaoh.
While I'll never personally...
...choice on Claremont's part, but it really highlights just how intertwined his two texts were at this latest height of his storytelling.
While I imagine the sales incentive certainly played a part in how interwoven the series' were, it really does help create the atmosphere...
...of Ororo's will has rarely been called into question or challenged; it's terrifying, then, to see how easily Karma's possessor bends the woman to his will and the language of slavery invoked as it happens.
Centering Ororo in this New Mutants story feels like a curious...
...apparently ready to bring Illyana's life to an end.
Claremont cuts the scene with powerful dialogue, couched within Leialoha's depiction of Illyana in what appears to be a little girl's dress instead of her New Mutants uniform.
The dress–perhaps intentional manipulation...
... its part to play in the Inferno, the introduction of the techno-organic virus to the demonic realm is another signal of the event's presence on the horizon.
In part cause by S'ym's sabotage, but also because of Illyana's own lack of transparency with her plan, Warlock is...
...ended with the escalating tensions between Illyana and Warlock, I called a lot of attention to the asymmetry between their personalties–but a quick moment in New Mutants #34 points to the danger of their worlds' collision.
As much as demonic influence will obviously have...