Conor ⊗🔺さんのイラストまとめ

At the story's close, Kitty seems to be regifted the agency she earlier discovered, as Logan gives her an opportunity to deliver the killing blow against Ogun...

...characterization–which was fully on display just a few issues ago in the pages of UXM and the New Mutants.

But I digress... because independent of the book's narrative troubles, Allen Milgrom gets another chance to show off his ability to draw dynamic fight choreography.

...that Logan's intervention undermined Kitty's narrative arc, it is equally true that Kitty's sloppy pursuit of Logan doesn't seem consistent with what we've learned of Kitty's tactical skill.

In a lot of ways, the series itself ran contrary to that established bit of her...

...lets the man find a moment of heroism in his own, very human way.

This limited series was kicked off because of both Pryde's failing to consider the full consequences of their actions, but it seems a lesson only Carmen has internalized.

Yes, I know I've just complained...

...with this final issue, which I found to have undermined just about the entirety (of what I found to be) Kitty Pryde's character arc over the length of the series.

As a book seemingly about Kitty finding new agency as she starts to transition from child to adult, Logan's...

...Kitty Pryde is without the compressed knowledge of combat and ninjitsu, but manages to fair well, relying only upon her own skills and combat abilities taught by Logan.

The fight between the two quickly devolves into a game of cat and mouse, with each alternating roles to...

Here, Mariko is allowed to be more than dutiful, but is instead a woman keenly aware she's operating in the world of men.

In a lot of ways, her speech to Amiko about the "performance" of power echoes the ethos of Emma Frost, and Mariko finally feels like a "Claremont dame".

...with Logan reveals that Carmen knew exactly what he was getting into–and despite his more earlier pure intentions–has failed his family be connecting with the crime lord.

Logan's personal stake in this fight is also important and may end up being the death of him. (It won't.)

...to let his daughter die. He insists not, but revisiting the series' second issue proves him wrong and reveals the cowardice at the heart of the character.

Admittedly, I had originally assumed Carmen was pressured into his affiliation with Shigematsu, but his conversation...

Back at the Yashida compound, a still-healing Logan and Yukio discuss what might as well be the series' core theme: the ability (or inability) to change one's nature.

It's ironic that a series that has explored changes in personal identity so thoroughly suggests here that...