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...attack the singer (this is... maybe not the right call, guys) in a Gladitorial "Danger Room" session, which Ali reads as a total bridge burning and she turns her backs on the New Mutants altogether.

Even though she's outed herself publicly as a mutant, Ali doesn't seem to...

...a chance for fame while she does it.

At one point, Ali even laments that her desire for celebrity has cost her a relationship with her father and is beginning to do the same with the mutants and is unable to accept any accountability for her actions.

Berto and Amara...

While I'm told (hey @olevelo!) that Ali's characterization under Claremont isn't completely congruent with how she's grown in her own title, I found his storytelling choices surrounding the mutant queen of pop compelling–namely, that he dares her to confront the costs of fame.

...is Alison Blaire.

While Weezie hasn't taken over any of the books yet, Claremont's editor and other major Run contributor Ann Nocenti has had her turn at penning a series–Beauty and the Beast–which Claremont pulls directly from to tell the tale of this singer and her song.

...and attacks some of her closest friends. The scenes are hyper compressed, even for Claremont, resolving (for now) after only a few pages once Kitty somehow wrestles the Soulsword from her best friend's grasp.

Twice now have the Beyonder's plans directly impacted Kitty...

Then something went wrong
The Inferno was strong
Scott got caught in that Sinister’s plan
Then at a deadly pace
Clones tried hard to replace
And this is how the story ran…

Maddie Pryor was ill
The Night Limbo Stood Still
But she told us where we stand
And Illyana was there
In silver Eldritch wear
But this is what S’ym and N’astirh planned

...queen of pop, and is quickly proven correct when Alison dives into the pit to rescue her friend (and, likely, indulge in a little bit of limelight).

Alison isn't used to sharing the stage–or being part of a team for that matter–and for it, has accidentally ruined the plan...

...in the gladitorial pit (during Beauty and the Beast, the book I wrote - A.N.).

She waxes poetic about the excitement her time there brought her, but her speech fails to cover the reality that Alison is, for all intents and purposes, a privileged woman failing to cope with...

The issue's interlude returns us to Erik and Lee's demonic-octopus island getaway, where Erik is slowly regaining his strength after his earlier injuries.

Seeing him dwarfed by the statue but refusing to submit is powerful imagery on Sienkiewicz's part, helping to signal...