Thoughts

The tale of three introductions – Kitty Pryde, Dazzler and the White Queen comes to a conclusion, with it never quite being clear what the Hellfire Club were actually up to.

But whatever the vague plan was it’s thwarted when Phoenix turns up her powers and seemingly kills the White Queen. The implication here is that she’s dead, primarily to stress how dangerous Phoenix has become. But a hot evil woman in a BDSM outfit is not going to stay dead for long in a Claremont comic.

Dazzler decides she doesn’t want to join the X-men after suffering an attack of “Corporate Marvel Still Not Having Any Idea What To Do With The Character”

So it’s only Kitty Pryde who has an ending that sets up her joining the team. But even that isn’t going to happen quite yet.

Fun Panel

Another nice cinematic team picture with a What If line-up of X-men going forward.

That Don’t Make A Lick of Sense

It’s hard to make sense of what the Hellfire Club were up to. Still their plans are only just getting started…

Any Googling

Doing some cursory research to see if Emma Frost appeared in any comics before her return in X-men I discovered her own (much later) comic series and it’s own very weird photoshop-style art covers that give off a strong self-published vibe.