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...the rest of the New Mutants to ward off the Demon Bear and its transformed servants.

You may notice that since Bill's takeover on artist duties, my screenshots have gotten a little sloppier–that's not a weakness of the book, but a strength.

Bleeding the action over each...

...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...

Back at the hospital, Rahne, still in her transitional-wolf form tries to check in on Dani, but her lupine appearance startles Officer Tom Corsi, who pulls his gun on the younger girl.

She returns to a human form, having narrowly avoided a moment that I can't help but wonder...

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."