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scans_dailySix and a third pages plus preview image from a 22 page story found in New Mutants v1 #18, "Death Hunt." This sums up all the reasons I loved Dani Moonstar back in the day, even though those same qualities lead to disaster in this 3-issue story.
Dani's been having psychic nightmares about the demon bear that killed her parents, and hiding it from the rest of the team.
So she works herself to exhaustion in the Danger Room fighting bears, and blows off Illyana's concerns after a sim.
That's Dani Moonstar: proud, strong, self-possessed, all qualities I was jonesing for when I was 14 and reading this back in the day, and all qualities that made her a fine team leader. At this stage in this story they're her undoing, however.
Rahne wakes screaming, thanks to her wolfy psychic link to Dani, and rousts the rest of the team to go find her.
Because she was wrong, almost dead wrong, about having to do it alone - it ended up taking two more issues, a jaunt to a spirit realm, and the combined efforts of the entire team of New Mutants to destroy the Demon Bear. Dani lived, and escaped paralysis thanks to the Morlocks' healer, and even got her parents back into the bargain; but a pair of innocent bystanders wound up with long-term unforeseen consequences from the battle. It was a painful lesson in hubris for Dani, but a life-changing one.
love the OPM comm header, guys!
Dani's been having psychic nightmares about the demon bear that killed her parents, and hiding it from the rest of the team.
So she works herself to exhaustion in the Danger Room fighting bears, and blows off Illyana's concerns after a sim.
That's Dani Moonstar: proud, strong, self-possessed, all qualities I was jonesing for when I was 14 and reading this back in the day, and all qualities that made her a fine team leader. At this stage in this story they're her undoing, however.
Rahne wakes screaming, thanks to her wolfy psychic link to Dani, and rousts the rest of the team to go find her.
Because she was wrong, almost dead wrong, about having to do it alone - it ended up taking two more issues, a jaunt to a spirit realm, and the combined efforts of the entire team of New Mutants to destroy the Demon Bear. Dani lived, and escaped paralysis thanks to the Morlocks' healer, and even got her parents back into the bargain; but a pair of innocent bystanders wound up with long-term unforeseen consequences from the battle. It was a painful lesson in hubris for Dani, but a life-changing one.
love the OPM comm header, guys!
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Date: 2010-07-26 11:02 pm (UTC)This is what got me into X-Comics. Imagine my sadness when I realized it wasn't typical.