This issue can be read as a standalone even though it is continuing from the previous long arc in the sense that at this juncture, after the Mutants were brought back to life by the Beyonder (who murdered them in the first place), they were all mentally shut off to the rest of the world and a desperate Magneto had decided to ship all the kids off to Emma Frost for her to help cure
As Mirage aka Danielle Moonstar is the only one who recovered first, she decided to go home to her folks' ranch for a break while deciding on what to do with her future since Xavier's is temporarily empty of students and can no longer function as a school while at that time of the mutants' storyline, they were enemies with Frost who is still the Hellfire Club's villainous White Queen
While home and meeting her folks (whose involvement from NM 18 to 20 of which we will not go into) for the first time since 20, she didn't explain that she is now part Valkyrie and has the death sight. As the Valkyrie is supposed to welcome dying to warriors to a better world, we have to wonder why Moonstar never realizes this but instead wants to fight Death
Anyway while home blizzard comes in and her parents are kept busy on their farm leaving Dani to go to town and hanging out and being a sexy teenager ... unfortunately she encountered some bullies ... and we were shown that the head honcho was her buddy and his family took her in when she needed it and potentially have a crush on her. Everything turned sour when Dani's power first came into prominence and she lashed out at him ...
Being young, she ran away instead of sorting things out and that has festered until now
The cover image is basically as the storm comes she hears an emergency broadcast of someone in trouble and she went there to find her old friend who was driving drunk. Death comes to claim him and she tries to fight for him. I am sure you all now how this tale ends, right?
Sad
But she did learn a lesson ... and while the writer intends for her to grow and return to the mutants to which we did agree but honestly wasn't she partly responsible for the death of the young man? That is the only shortcoming in this tale ...
Ratings: 7/10
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