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...ongoing cartoonish villainy–but I have to be honest in admitting that it's might be because the modern iteration of the character means so much to me.

While her methods are obviously crueler in Firestar Vol. 1, it does feel like we get a glimpse of Emma Frost, teacher...

...caring arms–the closing scene where she expertly manipulates the girl using her telepathy the only material Emma needed–none of the happenstance middle school cruelty required.

To be clear, I *love* Firestar's character, but goddamn does this miniseries do her and Emma...

...used to it... if I have my way, terror will soon become a way of life to her."

(Signed, a cartoonishly diabolical Emma Frost).

But Emma's insane line aside, Angelica's mutant manifestation and her father's bigotry would have been grounds enough for her turn to Emma's...

...playing in the sandbox–at times, it's done to great effect–but its insistence that we take this version of Emma's characterization seriously makes her an unintentionally hilarious character.

Nana dies (because, of course) and at the school's ice sculpture contest (???)...

...that Emma is singularly characterized as a less-than-one-note villain in the book, evil to the point that it becomes cartoonish.

Under Claremont, Emma is *emphatically* an evil woman, but there's still a depth to her character absent in this series. I'm all for others...

...framework of how the mutant metaphor has started to shape, but almost too heavy handed to be truly effective.

It feels intended to prime Angelica for grooming by the White Queen–but it all feels unnecessary given the amoral use of her telepathy anyways.

It's not helpful...

It isn't just the kids expressing cruelty to Angelica, but also her teachers.

Between her father's snide remarks and everyone awful at the school, the point it feels DeFalco is trying to make about Angelica is her desire to "belong"–an appropriate emotion and well within the...

It contrasts with Emma's full introduction to the series, where rather than training, her recruitment of young mutants is exclusively for the purpose of serving the Hellfire Club, when already in the main books, we're seeing that (while evil), Emma does care about her kids.

The series briefly pivots to Westchester, where Kitty helps the Professor in making repairs on Cerebro. The entire scene only seems to serve the purpose of injecting Angelica into the X-Mythos–all the while indirectly taunting her with the life she could be living at Xavier's.

...that DeFalco's understanding of teenage identity borders on parody.

Over in New Mutants–another book centered on "teen drama", the emotional depths of adolescence are often well captured and scripted– but Firestar #1 strictly goes through the insincere motions of teen sitcom.