Cover Dated 1990

So Part Two of Days of Future Present has no reference to Excalibur, Kitty nor Kate Pryde or Magik so I’m not keeping this issue for that story.  What I am keeping it for is for this pinup by Rob Liefeld.

Thanks to Marvel Database for the better scan than I could have done :

By the time Liefeld came onto New Mutants, both Doug and Illyana were long gone memories.  So there would never have been a chance for him to draw either character as the characters were not even thinking of their fallen friends.

So it is pretty cool to see Rob Liefeld draw Magik at all.  You can tell that this Magik still has her trademark soulsword, always an easy way to identify her by.

In 1990, New Mutants released issues 85 to 96, and my last issue with the title is 84.  They will spend the last issues of 1991 leading into X-Force which Liefeld co-created.

I imagine this “Glimpse of things to come” would have been an ideal X-Force title, of which, I would have totally bought.

I don’t buy an issue of X-Force until issue 26, completely missing out on Liefeld’s tenure on the title.

Cable, Cannonball, Boom-Boom, Sunspot, Rictor, Wolfsbane all make it to X-Force.  Warlock never does.  Shatterstar does eventually.  Adult Magik definitely doesn’t.  I wonder if there is any information out there regarding Magik’s inclusion on this piece of work.  I can see an editor telling him to draw her to drive the fans nuts, as I imagine it would have had to.

There is a nice backup story with Doug Ramsey as a ghost as Wolfsbane shows up to tell him that she’s moving on to date a new guy, Rictor.  Well, nice in that Doug is remembered in it.  Doug is also mentioned in the proper Days of Future Present story but we’re not celebrating Doug on this blog.  Well, not overly celebrating him.  He shows up quite often enough though to give that impression.