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Three and three-quarter pages from New Mutants #12, Part Three of "Second Coming". Coincidentally, my fifth volume of New Mutants Classic arrived today.

While the X-Men's Alpha Team battles it out with Stryker and the Purifiers (who have some heavy stuff, such as a "weaponized incantation" (that's shot out of a cannon) that sends Magik to Limbo, the rest of the New Mutants run interference with the Right, who have been ordered to deploy and assist the Purifiers in capturing Hope.

Heh.

The rest of the the team crashes in (including Dani, who, er, doesn't really seem to have any means of fighting them; you still need to work on this badass normal thing, Dani), more fighting.

Wells does a good job using Karma here, whose powers are often kind of difficult to write effectively. The issue ends with a cyborg-Cameron Hodge stabbing Karma in the leg, which is played like a big cliffhanger but...being stabbed in the leg doesn't even make the Top 50 Superhero Injuries of the month.

Back in main-plot-land, Cable and Hope exit the scene of the fight.

Hope's powers starting to kick in, there.

They've done a good job here of setting up the next issue's segments in each issue so far.

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