{"id":10404,"date":"2024-09-27T17:51:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T16:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10404"},"modified":"2024-09-27T17:51:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T16:51:11","slug":"phoenix-3-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10404","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix #3 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>PHOENIX #3<\/strong>
\nWriter: Stephanie Phillips<\/strong>
\nArtist: Alessandro Miracolo<\/strong>
\nColour artist: David Curiel<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Cory Petit<\/strong>
\nEditor: Annalise Bissa<\/strong><\/p>\n

PHOENIX:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the general tone of issues #2-3, she does trust Corsair enough to leave him to defend her body while she enters Hakan’s mind, in order to find out what all the zombie Asgardians are about. She empathises with Hakan’s pain but seems surprisingly reluctant to judge Odin’s punishment – she’s not normally this reticent. She seems to see Hakan as having brought it on himself by starting a civil war in Asgard, but the flashback we see is much more concerned to present Hakan sympathetically, and so Jean’s reaction seems at odds with it. Anyway, she lays the undead Asgardians to rest, then drives off the Black Order.<\/p>\n

SUPPORTING CAST:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Corsair<\/strong> turns out to have been after a feather from one of Odin’s ravens which was buried in the Asgardian graveyard, and which is apparently valuable to collectors or something. To be fair, the idea that he would rope Phoenix into this adventure when his main priority was to find a trinket is fair enough – and Phoenix lets him keep the feather. But the story still seems to expect us to be surprised that Corsair would do something as low-level decent as taking the Black Order’s slave labour force home (despite the fact that his origin story involves him being an escaped slave himself). I try to be fairly open minded in the annotation posts about how flexibly a character can be interpreted, but\u00a0this book’s approach to Corsair seems just downright incorrect to me.<\/p>\n

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Hakan<\/strong> is the leader of the Asgardian force buried on the alien moon. According to him, he and his force staged an uprising against Odin’s rule, believing that he was keeping Asgard in a state of permanent war; Hakan and his followers perceived themselves to be staging a necessary civil war as the only route to overthrowing Odin and bringing about peace. Odin punished them by leaving them in a state of undeath from which Phoenix frees them. Hakan appears to regret his methods, but stands by his criticism of Odin.<\/p>\n

VILLAINS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Black Order<\/strong> (Ebony Maw, Black Dwarf, Supergiant, Cull Obsidian and Proxima Midnight) were apparently sent to the moon by Thanos in order to recruit the Asgardian zombies as an army. They don’t put up much of a fight against Phoenix before departing, but then once she’s laid the zombies to rest, they have no mission. Ebony Maw in particular regards Phoenix as Jean Grey, and as an interloper in cosmic matters. At the end of the issue, they show up to form an alliance with Perrikus.<\/p>\n

Perrikus<\/strong> takes Adani<\/strong> to the Quarry of Creation, a location which first appeared in Thanos<\/em> #8-12 (2017); it also cropped up in Jason Aaron’s Avengers<\/em> run. In the Thanos<\/em> story, the Quarry is established as a place where ancent gods go to die, and thus a graveyard. In that story too, visitors to the God Quarry experience illusory visions. Perhaps significantly for this series, the Thanos<\/em> arc involves Thanos’ son Thane having the Phoenix Force, and the guadians of the Quarry – the Cosmic Coven – were powerful enough to remove it from him.<\/p>\n

Adani is unfazed by the Quarry’s illusory god, which she sees right through. The Quarry then tells her that Perrikus brought her there so that the Quarry could “judge your soul”, but tells her instead that she has several paths open to her. The images in page 11 panel 1 presumably reflect these paths, and show Adani as a warrior, an X-Man, a mother and some sort of superhero. Adani tells Perrikus afterwards that the Quarry made no judgment on her, which is consistent with what we see, but on some level we’re having to take her word for it.<\/p>\n

At any rate, Perrikus sees this as a successful outcome for Adani, consistent with his view that “true power comes from within”. He ends the issue by explaining his immediate agenda, of dealing with “others in this galaxy wielding powers that do not belong to them.” Presumably that’ll be Jean.<\/p>\n

OTHER SPECIFICS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Page 4 panel 3: “Proof of my father’s shortcomings.”<\/strong> Adani’s father was very religious, as shown in issue #1. She reads the God Quarry as a sign of the ultimate weakness of gods, and thus the wrongheadedness of her father’s beliefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition. PHOENIX #3 Writer: Stephanie Phillips Artist: Alessandro Miracolo Colour artist: David Curiel Letterer: Cory Petit Editor: Annalise Bissa PHOENIX: Despite the general tone of issues #2-3, she does trust Corsair enough to leave him to defend her body while she enters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annotations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10407,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions\/10407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}