New Mutants 28 Spilers/Review

[WallStreeter]

Well, Wolfsbane could have easily been replaced by any other random character.

But she wasn’t. She was here. It makes sense Illyana would let two New Mutants go with her. Two who have traveled many times through Limbo.

[rcaguy]

I reread it a lot. Your assertion has no support from the text whatsoever and is in fact contradicted by the text. The narration explicitly states that the acorn Ororo created was "pure and simple, unmarred by Limbo's primal corruption." The process is described in detail in issue 3 as the spell caster becoming aware of every molecule in their body, taking a piece of themselves, and combining it with the molecules of the air to form an acorn in an act of creation. That part about using the molecules of the air is the closest anything in the series comes to your assertion, but there is certainly nothing about channeling the magics of Limbo through anyone's body. In forging the soul sword, Illyana channels the life force of the oak, which is explicitly untouched by Limbo's corruption. And again, the actual material used to forge the acorns and sword are her own lifeforce and the air molecules, with not a word about the magic of Limbo. The oak is just used for power and food, not the creation process itself.

Wrong. Go back and *ACTUALLY* read the Limited Series. Illyana drew upon the magic of Limbo. Illyana tried and failed to recreate Ororo's acorn. Ororo's acorn wasn't as pure as you're claiming, since as Belasco told her(Ororo), Innocence lost can never be regained. Ororo was just as tainted as Cat and the rest had become in limbo when she created the acorn. She just no longer let it(the taint) rule her as Illyana realized when she basically used the same magic Ororo did to create the Soulsword instead.