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

\"\"<\/a>UNCANNY X-MEN vol 6 #4<\/strong>
\n“Red Wave, part 4: The Eye of a Hurricane”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Gail Simone<\/strong>
\nArtist: David Marquez<\/strong>
\nColourist: Matthew Wilson<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Clayton Cowles<\/strong>
\nEditor: Tom Brevoort<\/strong><\/p>\n

THE X-MEN:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rogue<\/strong> confirms that there’s no logical explanation for her suddenly becoming aware of Wolverine’s injuries at the end of the previous issue. The suggestion seems to be that Sarah Gaunt deliberately lured her there after learning about Haven (and the Outliers’ presence there) when she defeated Wolverine in the previous issue. For some reason Rogue decides to stay and fight Sarah alone; maybe some more compulsion is at work, or maybe she just underestimates Sarah’s power even after seeing how badly she thrashed Wolverine.<\/p>\n

Nightcrawler<\/strong>\u00a0 is now referring to Rogue as “sister”. When asked for some good news, he replies “Krakoa yet lives”, presumably meaning the spirit of the place rather than anything literal.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Wolverine<\/strong> is nearly killed by Sarah Gaunt, but presumably she doesn’t mind keeping him around as bait.<\/p>\n

Gambit<\/strong> wants to go and help Rogue, but is firmly told to stay at home and is effectively leading the Haven group in Rogue’s absence.<\/p>\n

Jubilee<\/strong> is still hanging around too.<\/p>\n

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

Professor X<\/strong> gives us another flashback to his time with Sarah. A month or so after they meet, she claims to be pregnant, by implication with his child. He claims in his narration that he was briefly attracted to the idea of having a family with her, but “knew” something, apparently because of his powers. He doesn’t appear in the present day sequences, but we’re told that he’s “gone catatonic” after she visited his cell last issue.<\/p>\n

The Outliers<\/strong> – Ransom, Deathdream, Jitter and Calico – all show up at the end to help the X-Men.<\/p>\n

Marcus St Juniors<\/strong> and daughter Chelsea St Juniors<\/strong> have minor appearances.<\/p>\n

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

Sarah Gaunt<\/strong> claims in flashback that she’s somehow able to tell when she’s pregnant before people could normally tell. It’s obviously possible that Xavier simply isn’t the father, or that she’s inventing the whole thing. Broadly, Sarah seems to believe that Xavier rejected her and the family they could have had together, and she seems to want revenge on him for that reason. A second flashback shows that she had a son, Brian, who died in a hurricane at the age of 9; this prompted her to lose her humanity and become a monster. She insists that she isn’t a mutant, but that her issue is with Charles rather than mutants herself – i.e., atacking mutants is a means to hurting Xavier.<\/p>\n

Sarah is weirdly obsessed with parenthood (or at least motherhood); she claims to be able to tell that Rogue is childless and sees it as cause for disdain. It’s suggested that her\u00a0 attack on Rogue is a distraction to allow Sarah to go after the X-Men’s base, “where the kids are”. But when she fought Wolverine last issue, she didn’t <\/em>know where they were – she was trying to get that information from him. The idea may be that she got the information from Wolverine between panels of the last page, after she defeated him, and just before Rogue got the psychic flash that lured her in.<\/p>\n

She’s ridiculously powerful in a straight one-on-one fight, able to injure Rogue with ease. She claims to be more powerful than an omega mutant, but that’s probably not to be taken too literally, since she doesn’t seem to have a very clear understanding of what an omega mutant actually is. She claims to be powered by nature.<\/p>\n

She has a whole bunch of robed followerers that she can despatch to Haven, led by some sort of demon woman who shares Sarah’s lettering but doesn’t seem to be the same person. EDIT: As pointed out in the comments, this appears to be Fawn<\/strong>, the girl that Sarah hunted down in isue #1 – although she’s been transformed in some way. However, Fawn was delivered to Graymalkin at the end of issue #2, which begs the question of what she’s doing here.<\/p>\n

Scurvy<\/strong> seems genuinely concerned about Sarah going after teenagers, as he was last issue, and tries to persuade Corina Ellis<\/strong> to send the “trustees” to defend them. Corina refuses, but actually breaks from her normal character to phone ahead and warn the X-Men that Sarah is coming. She seems to be sincere – or at least, she may be so unnerved by her inability to control Sarah that she’d quite like to see the X-Men take care of the problem for her. It’s not clear how she’s able to get in touch with them; from the look of it, though, she calls Gambit’s mobile. Where did she get the number?<\/p>\n

Corrina has a 16 year old brother, who will presumably be significant at some point.<\/p>\n

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

Page 3 panel 3: “Stop, Jaguar.”<\/strong> Sarah also called Charles “Jaguar” in the previous issue, ultimately referring back to a line of dialogue from their first meeting, in the flashback in issue #1.<\/p>\n

Page 6 panel 4: “First Krakoa. Then what happened with Charles. Then Harvey X.”<\/strong> The fall of Krakoa at the last X-Men: Hellfire<\/em> Gala one-shot; Professor X allying with Orchis as a delaying tactic in Rise of the Powers of X<\/em>; and the death of teen mutant Harvey X in issue #1.<\/p>\n

Page 9 panel 4: “Take him back to Haven. Jubilee’ll know what to do.”<\/strong> Jubilee? Why Jubilee? If anything, Nightcrawler is the one who used to act as makeshift medic at times.<\/p>\n

Page 13 panel 3: “There’s unauthorised access to the old Morlock tunnels below the grounds. The perimeter system is giving us unreliable data.”<\/strong> The suggestion seems to be that Sarah is accessing the Graymalkin Prison through the Morlock tunnels. The issues with the security system were mentioned last issue.<\/p>\n

Page 16 panel 2: “I absorb powers. I have Wonder Man’s running through me on the current.”<\/strong> This dates from Uncanny Avengers. <\/em>In practical terms it’s not much different from the power set she always had, so it tends not to come up much.<\/p>\n

Page 18 panels 1-2: “I haven’t slept in 17 years. There was a hurricane… 125 billion in damage.”<\/strong> This is probably meant to be Hurricane Katrina, which did cause $125bn in damage, a record that stood until Hurricane Harvey tied it in 2017. But Katrina was in 2005, which is not 17 years ago. It seems an odd mistake, so maybe it’s meant to be significant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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