{"id":10525,"date":"2024-11-13T23:12:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T23:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10525"},"modified":"2024-11-13T23:12:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T23:12:40","slug":"uncanny-x-men-5-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10525","title":{"rendered":"Uncanny X-Men #5 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>UNCANNY X-MEN vol 6 #5<\/strong>
\n“Red Wave, conclusion: Thunder in our Hearts”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Gail Simone<\/strong>
\nArtist: David Marquez<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Matthew Wilson<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Clayton Cowles<\/strong>
\nEditor: Tom Brevoort<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Rogue<\/strong> has been taking diction lessons, presumably out of insecurity about her accent. The opening flashback shows one of those lessons, “six months ago”; the part at the end is presumably her coming to her senses after being knocked out during her fight with Sarah Gaunt last issue, rather than something that actually happened.<\/p>\n

We learn here that she absorbed some of Harvey X’s powers when she touched him in issue #1, which is why she was having psychic flashes over the last couple of issues.<\/p>\n

Since her team don’t have any facilities to contain supervillains, she reluctantly hands the defeated Sarah Gaunt over to Corina Ellis, with a warning that they’ll be taking the Mansion back soon.<\/p>\n

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Gambit<\/strong> resorts to using the Eye of Cyttorak that he acquired in issue #1 when the X-Men are losing to Sarah’s forces; it duly responds with a massive blast of energy, but of course magic normally comes with a cost, as Gambit seems to realise.<\/p>\n

Nightcrawler<\/strong> is fighting without a weapon. When Ransom asks about this, Kurt replies that he’s not a killer. (“I thought I was, but I’m not.”)<\/p>\n

Jubilee<\/strong> gets some narration to tell us that she wants to live a normal life but knows that she can only have it if she fights for it.<\/p>\n

Wolverine <\/strong>is still blinded from his fight with Sarah last issue, but joins the fight against her forces anyway.<\/p>\n

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

Harvey X<\/strong>, who died in issue #1, shows up in a vision for Rogue. According to Harvey, he lied about being a low-power precognitive. He had visions of the future which included Sarah Gaunt coming for unprotected mutants, and touched her in order to “make” her absorb his powers before he died. In issue #1, this hapens literally two panels before he dies. He also claims that he had healing powers that were keeping him alive – the doctor in issue #1 did indeed say that his cancer should have killed him already. Basically, the idea seems to be that Harvey saw the current storyline coming and engineered the X-Men’s visit so that he could lend his powers to Rogue before dying, allowing her to defeat Sarah.<\/p>\n

It’s not entirely clear whether Harvey’s ghost is actually manifesting to assist Rogue, or whether this is just a personality echo that she absorbed (much as she used to have visions of Carol Danvers).<\/p>\n

Page 15 panel 2 is a montage of other images that Harvey saw:<\/p>\n