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Angelica is a special girl–and if you asked her grandma (at least in front of her), she'd tell you she's destined for some form of greatness...

But I'm not going to bury the lede any longer on this one, folks, I really struggled to enjoy this story.

Written by Tom DeFalco...

One of these days we'll get to read another issue of the Uncanny X-Men–but until then, it's you, me, and Firestar #1!

While not part of the Run-proper, I thought it would be fun to detour into Angelica's comics debut ahead of her first appearance in UXM!

I was wrong.

...ultimately forgiven, however, when Those Who Live Above in Shadows intervene on the situation and condemn Loki for his treachery.

The larger condemnation–that to force something on others simply for its outcome is *not* goodness–neatly ties up the limited series' thematic...

...to give up. While the others may enjoy they powers they've been given–Madelyne is the only among them often faced with her powerless in the face of her husband and his friends' mutant abilities.

Talisman ominously asks if this is what Madelyne wants–a world paid for with...

...Piotr's comfort with the concept of personal sacrifice for greater good makes sense, but I struggled to believe that sense would extend to the death of his beloved snowflake.

A fight breaks out between the two sides–one committed to their deontological response, the other...

...against absolute power–that no one person has any right to choose for others.

Kitty–in contrast to her earlier point to Rachel–tries to dissuade Piotr from his heel turn, reminding him of his sister's magickal identity.

Perhaps in line with his "Soviet" characterization...

...be unable to defend her and the rest of the X-Men. Ross, transformed into the Lore Lord, confirms Logan's report that the Gift is killing those with sorcerous potential, but Rachel begins to suggest that those sacrifices are worth the cost.

Claremont's argument here is one...

...its cost. On the heels of that realization, Logan returns to the Citadel carrying a dying Snowbird on his back.

Even without his "berserker rage", Logan is still a man quite capable of murder, a defiance against Kitty's earlier implication that without it, he'd...

...his heterosexuality. Rogue, daughter of two queer women, is a sincere ally for the speedster, the unspoken truth of his identity silently shared between them.

If only for his cynicism, Northstar is the next to express doubts about the Gift, recognizing that everything has...

...her later character development, even if it was at this point, unplanned–another unintentional crumb left for readers to help explain her later retcon by way of mandate.

Bringing Logan into the fold on her fears, the man heads back into the tundra, finally finding the...