Post by spoon on Dec 30, 2014 22:09:48 GMT -5
I think this one may have made my list in the original CCC. This is a curious. It semes to be a fill-in issue. The timing is funky, because it's a flashback within a flashback. Published just after The Fall of the Mutants, when the X-Men had just supposed died, Magik reflects in the caption (time period 1) on somewhat earlier time period that forms a framing sequence (time period 2) in which she tells Kitty Pryde about what happened between the pages of New Mutants #21 (time period 3). Basically, it explains a minor detail from New Mutants #21 in a way that's interesting rather than nitpicky. Magik gets to team up with Lockheed (despite the painted cover depicting Kitty). There's the Brood, and the X-Men in throwback uniforms, and a story that somewhat melancholy and bit creepy, but with a hopeful ending.