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...suspects herself to be evil at her core. The attention to her ongoing struggle–tortured, but quieter than Logan's self-torment, for example–is some of Claremont's best emotional work, and at the core of why Magik will always be my favorite character.

(Also: Shut up, Rahne!)

...terrifying by the page, especially as it rends the fabric of the world around it with its mighty claws.

With Illyana focusing the entirety (perhaps... the focused totality...?) of her spiritual energies on maintaining the Wards keeping Dani and her doctors safe, it's up to...

...to permanently transfigure the otherwise white Tom Corsi and Sharon Friedlander's transfiguration into Indigenous forms.

It–and the other examples of Claremont's seeming fascination with non-consensual body alternation and race swapping–are among the rare parts of his Run...

The Demon Bear isn't just a monstrous creature–it's also strategic–so it decides to change the rules of the game the New Mutants are playing.

Moments too late, Illyana realizes the Bear is casting a spell of its own– and the New Mutants are transported to the Bear's Badlands.

The kids dive into action as Illyana continues to assert herself as the team's most powerful member (Am I biased? Yes. But can anyone else siphon a portion of their soul of to create a protective ward? No.), just managing to finish her spell as the Bear attacks.

Clawing at...

...and what will happen to Corsi in the next issue's opening have soundly left him a character best left alone in modern context.

Sam suggested earlier that they wouldn't need to hunt for the Bear, that rather, it would come to them proves true, and Corsi & Sharon are attacked.

...would be handled much differently today. In the light of America's broader reckoning with police violence, the imagery of Corsi's gun pulled on a child is certainly distressing.

For Tom, it's human fallibility–but between the reality of police brutality...

Our issue takes another brief interlude in space–at this point something of a mid-issue backup introducing Warlock–where the Starjammers watch as the alien crashes toward Earth.

Their helplessness adds a real sense of stake to his introduction and damn does BS draw a good Carol.

...a prime of example of how CC's tone shifts as he and BS find their stride together.

The tensions between Rahne's faith & Illyana's nature will drive much of the arc between the two for the rest of the book, but here leads to one of my favorite lines:

"It's magic!" "So am I."

...and their telepathic rapport is some of CC's heaviest subtext and really reminds that while Dani & Illyana have grown closer since her introduction to the book, *Rahne* is Dani's best friend.

The contrast between Dani's giggles & the doctor's awful news is deeply tragic...