Lovely cover! Colors are beautiful.
Happy to see Moonstar getting so much attention. Hopefully she continues this trajectory.
Lovely cover! Colors are beautiful.
Happy to see Moonstar getting so much attention. Hopefully she continues this trajectory.
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Beautiful
I can't see the aforementioned images of the cover to #17, is this it? I dig Christian Ward's style, Dani's bow looks a bit off though...
https://comic-watch.com/news/news-wa...er-and-solicit
Some pages of the Claremont Special are sampled over in the Carol Danvers forum. Can't say I'm a fan of the artwork. Especially for something that should have some prestige to it as a "Anniversary Special". Feels very "Fill-in" or "Try-out" artist...
https://community.cbr.com/showthread...ion-2021/page3
Last edited by Thirteen; 01-14-2021 at 01:33 AM.
I really enjoyed it -- cool story with a lot of Valkyrie symbolism.
But I can understand why people were confused by it. The part with the Fantastic Four made no sense to me, given that there was no connection of any of those characters to the X-Men [well, Namor I guess]. Not sure what the point of that section was, why Claremont chose to include them in this story about Dani's trials, etc.
But viewed through the lens of this being a developmental story for a young Dani, it was very enjoyable. I also wonder if the original timing of release [mid-December] was meant to have this story be out before the Shadow King showed up in New Mutants #14, to help set up that story.
If they had to retcon Dani into having a history with the Shadow King to set up the current New Mutants plot then that's just bad writing. He already has a history with the New Mutants and doesn't need cheap retcons to make him relevant. But I doubt this'll be referenced at all in the current New Mutants arc or that Claremont was planning this out with Ayala.
The purpose of the story wasn't to recon a history between Dani and the SK, but rather to establish Dani as the eternal champion of life ying to the Shadow King's destructive yang. It repositions Dani's role as a Valkyrie, and partially explains why Hela has taken such a decided interest in Dani over the years [given that this story was set at a much earlier point in Dani's life].
What's been retconned is Dani's role as a Valkyrie -- and her accepting the eternal responsibility to combat the Shadow King as the champion of life. I think it would be very strange to have an encounter between them in the present -- with the SK now established as her eternal adversary, transcending even the mortal coil of Dani's eventual death -- and not have this be a factor in how their clash unfolds. If that's how it goes down, than the events of the Claremont special are no more meaningful than the plot of any given What If?
Last edited by rf2044; 01-15-2021 at 09:38 AM.
You mean the background image that had literally nothing to do with the rest of the story on the second to last page?
Claiming that the Demon Bear had anything to do with the plot of the Claremont anniversary special, which it most decidedly did not, is a colossal reach at best.
Last edited by rf2044; 01-17-2021 at 06:50 AM.