X-Men 189 is an outing for newcomers Amara and Rachel. She is from a Roman outpost from South America that never progressed past the early first century, and Rachel is the alternate universe daughter of Scott and Jean. They have beefs with Selene, and they find her in the Hellfire Club, the stylized social sex club in New York.
So the comic goes all in as Chris Claremont's Kink Korral as we see Rachel's past as a leashed and spiked, leather-clad mutant bloodhound, and Selene applies to be the club's Black Queen, complete with corset and knee high boots. The girls infiltrate by wearing French maid outfits. They are captured (and leashed) before the X-Men bust in and save them. Subjugation! Body swapping! Wee little outfits! Almost a full Yahtzee in this one.
Amid these scenes looms the upcoming threat of Kulan Gath, an Old World sorcerer, and next issue, dear reader, the comic goes full-on bonkers (fonkers).
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