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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...

Under Sienkiewicz (really going to need to rename this account if I keep my fan-boying up), Rahne's transition form is given new dimension–an artistic benefit of her genetic and chemical tampering by the creators of Cloak and Dagger.

Rahne's request to wear Dani's belt...

...the same emotional dynamic in writing. Most of NM #19 takes place in a hospital–a visual callback to Sienkiewicz's first (I believe*) issue on the Run, UXM #159–where Dani's grievous wounds are being triaged in surgery, the doctor's prognosis grim.

Yesterday, I wrote about...

...Claremont heading toward the peak of his writing prowess on the Run.

Parallel to the issues of Uncanny X-Men we've been reading that focus more on the quiet, emotional moments the team lives through in between battles, the New Mutants book has also trended toward...