Conor ⊗🔺さんのイラストまとめ

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...

...that proves she's moved beyond her more childish noms de guerre.

While still a child, her ordeal with Ogun has left Kitty transformed, not only more mature, but as a woman who finds a home for herself in the shadows.

She isn't Ariel or Sprite–now she's the Shadowcat.

In it's latter half, I started to worry that (much like @olevelo) the limited series would have been better served truncated to four issues, as if Claremont had run out of story and was straining to draw out its length for six issues.

But KP&W #5 dispels that concern, as...

...she's needed all along. The focus on will–on agency–is an important development for Kitty, who, like Illyana, starts to separate what was forced upon her and what she can now choose to do with it.

Inspired by her own reclaimed agency, Kitty makes another attempt at holding...

If there were ever a member unsuited for the Hellions, it's @Warpath_Dylan's favorite, James Proudstar.

Unlike the others, he shows some reservation about attacking kids–he'd love revenge on the X-Men for the death of his brother (way back in UXM #95 -A.N.)–but not like this.