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Hello and welcome back everyone! (Or, welcome to any new followers entertained by my Madelyne Pryor jokes!) Today, we're reading X-Men/Alpha Flight #1!
To catch anyone new up, (just about) every day I read through an issue of Claremont's Run on the Uncanny X-Men with the hope...
...unavailable to those she loved most. Illyana ends her tale with the story resolved and relationships renewed, and it seems that its audience has taken the hint.
Ororo resolves to travel home to Africa to rediscover herself and sense of life, and Kitty finds compassion for...
...greatness, importance, and power. Importantly, she doesn't see them as things that commodify Kitty, but rather, reasons to celebrate her.
Space-Kitty returns after Lockheed's rescue, ending her brief romance with Space-Piotr, realizing that her pursuit of passion left her...
...where she defiantly overcomes the witch's strength of will.
In the fallout of her breakup, Kitty has been left feeling inadequate–and her need for rescue during her own miniseries likely doing nothing to minimize this feeling–but Illyana makes clear that *she* sees Kitty's...
...their ship, Illyana. Oh, did I forget to mention that Illyana made herself the "persona" of the ship with a big Zordon face? And then blew herself up in the story *she* was telling? Did I forget that? Weird.
Anywho, Kitty makes a final stand against the wicked White Queen...
...to be pointed out. Ahem. And two, that even without her mutant abilities, the once-weather witch contains multitudes of strength and will.
After tracking down Lockheed, the ragtag group of space pirates is again ambushed by the White Queen, leading to the explosion of...
...manages to convince Ororo to take up flight to rescue Lockheed, even if she is the woman who can no longer fly.
It's the correct appeal to make to Ororo–one, that she once honored the sanctity of life, and two...
...wait. I'm sorry. Lockheed has a dragon harem & it needed...
...a heavy hand in pointing out Ororo's hopelessness to herself (but, to be fair, she did learn manners from an allegorical Satan).
No matter who's telling the story, be it Claremont or Illyana, Kitty will always be given an opportunity to dramatically monologue, and the girl...
...between Piotr, Kitty, and Lockheed meant to parallel the one that formed between Piotr, Kitty, and Zsaji.
Cleverly, Illyana places Kitty within real-life Piotr's role, clearly with the intention of helping Kitty understand Piotr's choice–while also helping Piotr understand...
...is making up on the fly, making its meandering nature appropriate. But, by the story's end, the fact that anyone around the campfire took a lesson away from the story is a feat unto itself.
Kitty isn't the story's only intended audience as Illyana sets up a "love" triangle...