Where Dark Phoenix moves toward a cohesive metaphor, The Brood Saga instead offers variations on a theme – that of death - approaching this issue from multiple angles based on individual character experiences. 1/7 #XMen

For Logan, the brood bring him back to his primal nature, revealing how fragile the civilized veneer he has constructed is. He’s left to contemplate euthanizing his teammates, casting death as a (potentially positive) tool, and Logan as an expert craftsman. 2/7 @WolverSteve

For Kitty the story is about mortal consciousness and the fear of death as a motivating force-essentially carpe diem vs the perception of immortality in youth, leading her to rush her (age-inappropriate) relationship with Piotr (who delivers the moral to her). 3/7 @LetsTalkKitty

Storm’s perspective is spiritual – facing transformation into the brood, she is left to contemplate the nature of her essence beyond merely her body. The story ends with a near-religious transformation into a God-like being, followed by resurrection. 4/7 @MutantElement

Reflecting this same concept, Logan and Kurt openly discuss the contrasting doctrines of materialism versus spiritualism. 5/7

Meanwhile, Prof. X is on Earth, considering the cycle of renewal. Believing his students to be dead, he must choose whether to foster more by forming the New Mutants or to give up entirely in the face of an ephemeral world and the agony of loss. 6/7 #newmutants

The Brood Saga uses an all-consuming villain to generate a multifaceted, vaguely intersecting series of philosophical contemplations on mortality and human existence in the face thereof. All of this (and much more) in a comic book about bug aliens. 7/7