Conor ⊗🔺さんのイラストまとめ

...missing, but I appreciate that the issue takes the time to put the emotional strain of the role–especially for a child–directly on the page.

All of the black and yellow spandex, fights against cosmic forces of evil, and even a lot of the art can really understate the fact...

...could be looked at as a "yaaaas demon girlboss bad ass" moment, but it reads to me like her progressing corruption, even as the book purposefully doesn't call too much attention to it as its happening.

Dani has really come into her own as the team's leader since Xi'an went...

...but it remains a plot beat I wish we could skip altogether.

The back half of the issue focuses on Dani and Illyana, who have inarguably become the team's protagonists, as they escape the possessed-Xi'an's thrall.

Illyana's growing comfort with ruling the demons of Limbo...

...I had with Sienkiewicz's rendering of Xi'an.

It won't be long before this storyline is behind us–and while its conclusion is lacking (for more on *that* story, stay tuned for more in a couple of weeks or go listen to @CerebroCast and @saracentury's episode on Xi'an ASAP)...

...of the series' current trajectory without addressing Claremont's openly fatphobic and Orientalist tendencies–at the center of which lies the transformed and possessed Karma.

I don't want to beat the dead horse here, but Leialoha's art does little to mitigate the discomfort...

Even compared to UXM, New Mutants has been an incredibly queer book thanks to CC's subversion of Shooter's mandates and indulgence of subtext.

To that point, two relationships have started to really cement themselves in the book–Rahne and Dani (here twice-noted as soul-mates)...

...come, but how much the book itself has evolved since Claremont and McLeod's take on the Marvel Graphic Novel introducing its New Mutants.

The cast has expanded, essentially doubling in size, but each of the teenagers has matured considerably as the series has developed.

...he'll later come to be identified as, but if anything, it proves the dimension that Claremont writes into his characters rather than leaving them archetypal.

Seeing Xi'an's polaroid of the first assembled version of the team really highlights not only how far its cast has...

...and helped redefine what it could be and how dark its tone could get; it only makes sense then that New Mutants #32 revisits its roots through that lens before moving forward into new frontiers.

The issue opens with a retelling of the closing moments of NM #6, highlighting...

Dani Moonstar is her campaign manager those are the rules