Hank Hill-approved team management.

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Four scans from New Mutants #15.


So "Second Coming" is over, and the various series go their separate ways after three months of conjoined bliss.  The New Mutants as a group kind of dropped out of the picture toward the end of it, with Cannonball getting a surprising amount to do in a tie-in miniseries, which also figures into the plot of this issue since it picks up on the Magik/Pixie tensions.

So, this is one of those after-action issues where everybody goes on vacation (foolishly; the only thing worse for a mutant than being at X-Men headquarters is not being at X-Men headquarters).  In this instance, SC was hard on the team (Cannonball initially offers Cyclops his resignation as leader, thinking he did a bad job; Cyclops says no), so Cannonball wants to get everybody rejuvenated.  They fly to a ranch or something in the middle of the desert.  Sunsport wants to know what they're going to do in such a dull-looking spot.



They do, while the villains of the piece, a group of army commandos who got stuck in Limbo for twenty years (Limbo-time) and now have demon-powers, and who want to capture Magik because they think she's a threat, go on the hunt.





But it's a fakeout.  They're actually sneaking up on Pixie, who also left Utopia, to steal her Soul Knife for use against Magik.
 

Comments

[icon_uk]

Xian, Doug had been inside Legion's mind long, long before you ever were. He was one of the first people to ever get pulled inside in Legion's first story as protagonist.

[stolisomancer]

She's asking a question, not discounting his experience. It has been a few years in-universe.

[icon_uk]

True, I'd forgotten than Xian was "missing, presumed dead" (whereas she was actually "possessing, presumed fed" by the Shadow King) during the first Legion story, so fair enough on that.