{"id":10528,"date":"2024-11-14T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10528"},"modified":"2024-11-14T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T20:52:00","slug":"nyx-5-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10528","title":{"rendered":"NYX #5 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>NYX vol 2 #5<\/strong>
\nWriters: Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly<\/strong>
\nPenciler: Francesco Mortarino<\/strong>
\nInker: Elisabetta D’Amico<\/strong>
\nColourist: Ra\u00fal Angulo<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Joe Sabino<\/strong>
\nEditor: Annalise Bissa<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Prodigy <\/strong> becomes a public figure after his fight with the Krakoan last issue, with the Truthseekers gathering outside his apartment, and anti-mutant laws being proposed by the City Council as part of Empath’s plan to foment racial hatred (of which more in a bit).<\/p>\n

Sophie<\/strong> seems to have been convinced, at least to start with. But as the vote draws near, she turns on Empath’s group and decides to side with Kamala, David and co after all. She telepathically sends all the protestors home, apologises, and is immediately accepted by Kamala, though Anole and Laura are a lot less forgiving. To be fair, Kamala is mainly trying to get the group to focus on the real problem. Sophie claims that the Cuckoos voted on whether to join Empath’s plan, but doesn’t actually say how she voted. However, her dialogue with the Cuckoos towards the end of the issue strongly implies that the “vote” was unanimous.<\/p>\n

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Sophie fights off the Cuckoos’ influence and frees the Council members who were affected by Empath’s control. This apparently causes her to burn out her powers, at least temporarily.<\/p>\n

Kamala <\/strong>has the solution to all this, which is to get out there and, in just 24 hours, stage a political campaign to appeal to America’s better nature, employing “intersectional solidarity”. This is entirely successful. She also gives an inspirational speech about diversity at the end, which defuses a potential riot immediately. It is just possible<\/em> that this issue could have been better timed.<\/p>\n

Anole <\/strong>and Wolverine<\/strong> both join the campaining.<\/p>\n

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

Dante<\/strong>, David’s boyfriend, continues to hang around and look supportive without doing a great deal.<\/p>\n

Kamala’s activist friend Nakia Bahadir <\/strong>shows up to help campaign in page 11 panel 2; the dialogue gives her name as “Nadia”, which is probably a typo. Brother Aamir Khan<\/strong> is still confused by cousin Bilal’s bigotry but ultimately comes down on Kamala’s side.<\/p>\n

Local<\/strong> helps Wolverine with her campaigning (and despite his alliance with Mojo, he’s clearly not a villain in this issue).<\/p>\n

The Morlocks<\/strong> show up to support Anole; Caliban<\/strong> and Mammomax <\/strong>appear, but have no dialogue.<\/p>\n

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

Empath<\/strong>‘s plan appears to run like this:<\/p>\n