Pencilers Brett Booth, Sean Chen, and Diego Olortegui turn in impressive work, but longtime X-fans will be spoiled at the sight of linework that could only belong to Bill Sienkiewicz, whose art bookends this oversized story. Salvador Larroca, who drew much of Claremont’s X-Men work since 2000, is the cover artist and letterer Tom Orzechowski, whose era-defining tenure on Uncanny X-Men set an industry lettering standard, makes his usual magic, including in one amazing panel where Reed Richards gets-spoiler alert!-aggressively tickled. Thankfully, the reunion tour extends to the creative team, in addition to the characters on page.
The Fantastic Four, whose adventures he wrote following a much-anticipated return to Marvel in the late-’90s, receive an extended treatment alongside alternate-universe counterparts like Valeria Fen, who Claremont introduced in his late-aughts New Exiles run. The X-Men, outside of Storm and Gambit, are almost an afterthought in this issue, which gives Claremont time to spend with the non-mutant characters he grew to love at Marvel. I’ll never let her-let anyone-do that to me again!” The wardrobe change isn’t just a nod to Carol’s modern reinvention under Kelly Sue DeConnick it’s a reminder of Claremont’s abiding affection for a character he helped to develop over time -and who, like so many of the heroes he shepherded at Marvel, is now a silver screen star. Switching from her Binary form to the modern Captain Marvel costume, she declares, “Rogue stole my life.
In San Francisco, Dani sees Rogue fight Carol Danvers in a send-up of that classic scene from Marvel Super-Heroes #11, but this time Carol’s essence is not absorbed into Rogue. The journey finds Dani (and her horse Brightwind) revisiting some of Claremont’s most iconic moments in continuity.
Claremont sets up a thematic battle between life and death as death goddess Hela sends Dani through space and time to battle the Shadow King. For Moonstar fans, this issue is a treat.
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