{"id":10597,"date":"2024-12-11T21:58:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T21:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10597"},"modified":"2024-12-11T21:58:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T21:58:03","slug":"uncanny-x-men-7-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10597","title":{"rendered":"Uncanny X-Men #7 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/91ZWrpXj7oL._AC_UY436_QL65_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10598 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/91ZWrpXj7oL._AC_UY436_QL65_-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/91ZWrpXj7oL._AC_UY436_QL65_-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/91ZWrpXj7oL._AC_UY436_QL65_.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><strong>UNCANNY X-MEN vol 6 #7<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Raid on Graymalkin, part 2: No Walls can Hold Us!&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Writer: Gail Simone<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Pencillers: David Marquez &amp; Edgar Salazar<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Inkers: David Marquez &amp; Victor Olazaba<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Colourist: Matthew Wilson<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Letterer: Clayton Cowles<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Editor: Tom Brevoort<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the second part of the &#8220;Raid on Graymalkin&#8221; crossover, which started in <em>X-Men<\/em> #8 and continues in <em>X-Men<\/em> #9. In fact, the action of this issue heavily overlaps with the previous chapter, with some scenes appearing in both issues.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly speaking, the sequence of events goes like this.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>X-Men<\/em> #8 pp2-3. Beast wakes up in Graymalkin Prison.<\/li>\n<li><em>Uncanny<\/em> #7, pp3-6. Cyclops and Rogue have a phone call and he fails to convince her to stand down. The Louisiana X-Men use the Eye of Agamotto to teleport north.<\/li>\n<li><em>X-Men<\/em> #8 pp5-6. Cyclops briefs the Alaskan X-Men and tells them to &#8220;gear up, we&#8217;re moving&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><em>X-Men<\/em> #8 pp7-17. Warden Ellis talks to Calico, Jubilee and Beast in the meal hall; Beast is beaten up by guards. In this version, the conversation is interrupted by the Marauder teleporting in and taking out the primary generators, and by a Limbo demon atacking.<\/li>\n<li><em>Uncanny <\/em>#7, pp8-10. Warden Ellis and her men take Jubilee to the cells; Ellis instructs Ezra to release Calico, which he does; and Beast is dragged back to his cell. The Alaskan X-Men are shown on the Marauder. This version is written as if the attack is about to start, but if you squint a bit you you pretend that it&#8217;s already started and it&#8217;s just not being mentioned on the page.<\/li>\n<li><em>X-Men <\/em>#8 p18 and <em>Uncanny<\/em> #7, p11-p12pn1. Cyclops, Temper and Psylocke teleport into Graymalkin; Cyclops calls Juggernaut to check he&#8217;s in place.<\/li>\n<li><em>X-Men<\/em> #8 pp19-22: Cyclops, Temper and Psylocke fight their way through the building.<\/li>\n<li><em>Uncanny <\/em>#7, p12-p15pn2: Meanwhile, Calico returns with Ember and breaks into the building; the rest of the Lousiana X-Men (who have been stuck outside) follow her in. Jubilee escapes. Kid Omega locates Beast.<\/li>\n<li><em>X-Men<\/em> #8 pp23-25 and <em>Uncanny<\/em> #7 p15pn3-p16pn1. Psylocke declares that Graymalkin is a &#8220;place of horrors&#8221;. Blob attacks, but is immediately defeated by Rogue as the two X-Men teams meet.<\/li>\n<li><em>Uncanny <\/em>#7 p16pn2 onwards then play out uninterrupted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE X-MEN (LOUISIANA):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rogue <\/strong>seems to be angry with Cyclops because he set up a remote strike team in Alaska which isn&#8217;t playing a leadership role in the mutant community; the idea seems to be that this is abandoning one of the core roles of the X-Men, and that&#8217;s why she&#8217;s unhappy with him. She does still respect him, though.<\/p>\n<p>She reluctantly allows the Outliers to come with them &#8211; the only member of the team to show any disquiet about it. She tells them to stay outside the walls, but she does seem to be referring to them as X-Men on page 6. Since the recap page and <em>X-Men<\/em> #8 both refer to Calico as an X-Man, we&#8217;ll go with that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gambit<\/strong> uses the Eye of Agamotto that he obtained in issue #1 to teleport the team to Graymalkin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wolverine<\/strong>&#8216;s eyes have recovered since last issue. He argues in favour of the Outliers coming on the mission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nightcrawler <\/strong>is also there, but doesn&#8217;t get the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>Even though <strong>Calico <\/strong>refused to sign the document that Ellis asked for in <em>X-Men<\/em> #8, she gets released anyway. It&#8217;s not clear whether this is a continuity glitch, or whether Ellis was just pushing her luck. She declines the offer of a lift to a rendezvous with her family and insists on leaving on foot &#8211; which Ezra allows, despite (a) warning her of dangerous dogs in the area, and (b) not actually telling her where she&#8217;s meant to go. (She doesn&#8217;t ask, to be fair.) While alone, she hears her mother&#8217;s voice telling her to abandon the mutants, but she ignores it and goes back to help.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, once she&#8217;s out of Graymalkin, she can summon <strong>Ember<\/strong> &#8211; who wasn&#8217;t brought there by the Eye of Agamotto. Presumably some sort of power dampening was involved while she was in the building. Ember also somehow escapes his bridle between pages 1 and 5, and our attention is drawn to that. With Ember, Calico is able to smash through the prison walls singlehandedly. Her main priority seems to be to rescue Jubilee. She doesn&#8217;t take Ember into the building (presumably because there isn&#8217;t space) but she can manifest an energy mace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ransom <\/strong>starts the fight between the two groups, but has the excuse that he was given misleading advice by Wolverine, and wrongly (but reasonably) thought Cyclops was about to attack. <strong>Jitter <\/strong>and <strong>Deathdream <\/strong>are also there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE X-MEN (ALASKA):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cyclops<\/strong> tries to talk Rogue out of attacking, much as he did in <em>X-Men<\/em> #3 and <em>Uncanny<\/em> #2 (a scene that seems wildly premature with hindsight). In those issues, he argued that Rogue&#8217;s rookie team would be wiped out. This time, he argues that both groups would be overkill and would escalate the situation even more. Um, you&#8217;re setting demons on the place, Scott.<\/p>\n<p>Scott tells Rogue that he doesn&#8217;t &#8220;love&#8221; his teammates, but he does &#8220;care&#8221; for them.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the group are mainly just there, since this isn&#8217;t their book. <strong>Psylocke<\/strong> seems amused by Cyclops&#8217; lack of succes with Rogue and implies that she thinks he&#8217;s patronising her. <strong>Temper<\/strong> (under Scurvy&#8217;s influence) complains that Wolverine should have &#8220;looked out for us during Krakoa&#8221;, presumably meaning his failure to do anything about the Pit. <strong>Kid Omega, Magik <\/strong>and <strong>Juggernaut<\/strong> also appear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Beast<\/strong> joins the fight once freed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SUPPORTING CAST:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor X<\/strong>&#8216;s cell is seen from outside, but he doesn&#8217;t play a part in the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VILLAINS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Warden Ellis<\/strong> seems to have no particular interest in Calico or Beast beyond getting money for them, so maybe the angle is indeed that she&#8217;s more of a grifter. She doesn&#8217;t care about her staff being injured by the Wolfpack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Captain Ezra<\/strong> lets Calico go on foot, which shows a certain lack of concern for her wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blob, Siryn<\/strong> and <strong>Wildchild<\/strong> show up as trustees again, still apparently loyal to the prison.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scurvy<\/strong> can make both X-Men teams angry enough to fight one another. Either he isn&#8217;t powerful enough to affect them more directly than that (particularly given their psychic training) or for some reason Ellis doesn&#8217;t want him to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Wolfpack<\/strong> are cyborg dogs created by the Graymalkin Prison. We&#8217;ve seen them under development in <em>Sentinels<\/em> where Ellis seemed to want them as replacements for the human cyborg title characters (who work for mutant Larry Trask). Ezra protests that &#8220;the AI is still spotty&#8221; and &#8220;[t]hey&#8217;ll maul our own men&#8221;. In <em>Sentinels<\/em>, the cyborg dogs didn&#8217;t even work yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MISCELLANEOUS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Page 4 panel 1: &#8220;There&#8217;s nobody I respect more, not even Charles.&#8221;<\/strong> Professor X is an odd reference point in this context in 2024, but then I suppose he is coming off a &#8220;father of the nation&#8221; role which may appeal to Rogue&#8217;s sensibilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Page 8 panel 1: <\/strong>The &#8220;missing dog&#8221; poster outside the prison wall was also shown in an establishing shot of Graymalkin in issue #3, so it&#8217;s probably significant. (Most likely, the implication is that this is where the cyborg dogs are comingf from.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition. 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