{"id":10500,"date":"2024-11-02T17:01:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T17:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10500"},"modified":"2024-11-02T17:01:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T17:01:16","slug":"nyx-4-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10500","title":{"rendered":"NYX #4 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>NYX vol 2 #4<\/strong>
\nWriters: Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly<\/strong>
\nArtist: Enid Bal\u00e1m<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Joe Sabino<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Ra\u00fal Angulo<\/strong>
\nEditor: Annalise Bissa<\/strong><\/p>\n

THE CORE CAST:<\/strong><\/p>\n

David Alleyne <\/strong>is the spotlight character in this issue. As strongly indicated in earlier issues, he’s responsible for the various mutant-themed street art that we’ve seen in the background throughout the series. He wears a costume when making his art, and shows up in the same costume to fight the Krakoan during the story.<\/p>\n

At first, he refuses to help Kamala against the Krakoan, even though Kamala only wants him to come along and try to talk sense into Julian as an old friend (which would be a stretch, but she doesn’t know that). David claims that his “position requires a very careful balance” and that he can’t be seen in that sort of role. Kamala interprets this as David being unwilling to compromise his own comfort, and decides that Sophie’s sell-out accusations in issue #1 were correct. However, when Ms Marvel is clearly losing to Julian, and nobody else shows up to help, David does indeed intervene, and both of them wind up being arrested. David assumes that this will cost him his job with the university, but for the moment it’s just an assumption.<\/p>\n

The narration in this issue consists largely of David’s “lecture notes” (which read more like brainstorming sessions). Very broadly speaking, his key points seem to be:<\/p>\n