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\"\"<\/a>PSYLOCKE vol 2 #10<\/strong>
\n“Unmoored and Unmourned”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Alyssa Wong<\/strong>
\nArtist: Vincenzo Carrat\u00f9<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Fer Sifuentes-Sujo<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Ariana Maher<\/strong>
\nEditor: Darren Shan<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER:<\/strong> Psylocke, possessed by the Lady in White.<\/p>\n

This is the final issue of the series.<\/p>\n

PAGES 1-2.\u00a0<\/strong>Kwannon dreams of meeting the Lady in White.<\/em><\/p>\n

The previous issue ended with Kwannon being possessed by the Lady in White after rejecting Mitsuki’s offer of an alliance to take over the Hand. In that issue, Mitsuki described the Lady in White as a yokai who “cares for the lost dead, especially lost children, and avenges them by tormenting their abusers until they lose their minds”. According to Mitsuki, the Lady saw Kwannon as one of the guilty, but Mitsuki used her powers to force the Lady to lure Kwannon to Japan as a potential ally instead. The Lady’s own comments about Psylocke earlier in the arc broadly confirmed that.<\/p>\n

In this dream, however, Kwannon appears as a child, accompanied by a non-speaking Mitsuki. The scene broadly echoes flashbacks from issues #7 and #8, earlier in the arc. This version of Kwannon – a victim of the Hand – is obviously one much more likely to be viewed sympathetically by the Lady, and indeed that’s how the Lady treats her here (though she turns on her in their next scene). As in issue #6, the Lady gives Kwannon a vision of her lost child Hideko, but this time it’s in the context of inviting Kwannon to accept the Lady as a mother figure.<\/p>\n

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Note also that, despite Mitsuki claiming to control the Lady in White last issue, her non-speaking version here appears standing by the Lady’s side. Perhaps the Lady isn’t quite so far under Mitsuki’s control as she thinks; certainly, Mitsuki’s personality change and her brutal revenge on Hiyashi last issue seem more in keeping with the Lady’s personality.<\/p>\n

The lullaby is the same one that “Hideko” and Deathdream sang in issue #6.<\/p>\n

PAGES 3-6.\u00a0<\/strong>Mitsuki leads her forces against the Hand’s Tokyo sanctum.<\/em><\/p>\n

We saw this implausibly prominent citadel last issue.<\/p>\n

Mitsuki claimed last time that she had already taken over the Kyoto branch of the Hand, and mentions that again later in the issue. But we don’t see any regular Hand members who are loyal to her – instead, her attacking force consists entirely of the yokai who were with her in the previous issue. No particular reason is given for this, but presumably she wants a bigger power base before starting intra-Hand fighting. Maybe the Kyoto branch isn’t on the scale of this one.<\/p>\n

Another possibility is that Mitsuki is more interested in avenging herself on the Hand than leading it, despite what she said last issue. Certainly, she talks as if the aim is more to destroy the Tokyo branch and fill the vacuum. Maybe this bunch of oddities\u00a0is<\/em> the Kyoto branch of the Hand, post-Mitsuki. Later in the issue, her aim seems to be more to get her hands on the Equinox Blade and build a power base around her yokai.<\/p>\n

Under the Lady in White’s control, Psylocke appears to have Iceman-style powers, and can turn enemies to brittle ice crystals. She says something about using their “sins” and “secrets” to do this, to be fair, so maybe the Hand ninja are particularly susceptible.<\/p>\n

The script repeatedly insists that Mitsuki’s attack on the Hand is a bloodbath, but we really don’t see any sign of that in the art, beyond the Lady shattering the two statues here.<\/p>\n

PAGE 7.\u00a0<\/strong>Devon and Greycrow learn about the attack.<\/em><\/p>\n

Devon’s “rat cameras” were mentioned last issue.<\/p>\n

PAGE 8-9.<\/strong>\u00a0The Lady talks to Kwannon.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mitsuki referred to Kwannon being a “gate” last issue – she claimed that Kwannon’s long history of mind alteration and mind control made her easy to possess.<\/p>\n

The Lady tacks from treating Kwannon as a child victim to an adult abuser (note that Hideko now appears as a child rather than a baby). Her speech about Kwannon’s guilt echoes a similar rant from issue #7.<\/p>\n

Kwannon is shown what’s happening with her body in the outside world and is horrified that she’s being forced to break her vow not to kill any more people; the Lady seems to see this as some appropriate form of punishment for her.<\/p>\n

PAGE 10.\u00a0<\/strong>Devon and Greycrow amidst the fight.<\/em><\/p>\n

PAGES 11-12.\u00a0<\/strong>Mitsuki claims the Equinox<\/em> Blade.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mitsuki asks Kwannon if she remembers “being summoned to the Sanctum to meet Master Hayashi”. This would be the scene was saw in a brief flashback in issue #1, where they were apparently just two among a number of candidates. This location doesn’t particularly resemble the one from the flashback, but nobody said it was the same room.<\/p>\n

The Equinox Blade, and the mission to recover it for the Hand, were in a flashback in issue #8.<\/p>\n

PAGES 13-14.\u00a0<\/strong>Devon and Greycrow try to<\/em> intervene.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mitsuki apparently wants to absorb their souls into the Equinox Blade, to the great annoyance of the Lady in White, who apparently just\u00a0assumes<\/em> them to be “condemned souls” – until examining Devon and declaring them innocent. To be fair, it’s not a wild leap of logic to assume that anyone running around a Hand sanctum is morally compromised.<\/p>\n

Astoundingly, Devon can recognise the Equinox Blade from across the room, and remember what it does, based solely on having seen pictures of it “on a dark-web forum”. This is so far beyond Devon’s established area of inerest that it feels terribly contrived, especially because nothing that follows really seems to turn on Devon knowing this.<\/p>\n

PAGES 15-16.\u00a0<\/strong>Kwannon makes a deal with the Lady.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kwannon spells out for us that her possession by the Lady combines her worst nightmares: being used as a weapon without agency, and “losing control of my body again” (i.e., her body swap with Betsy Braddock).<\/p>\n

Kwannon’s pitch to the Lady is that Mitsuki is going to kill everyone in the building, including the Hand’s current crop of child trainees. We get a single panel of one of these kids trying to defend the others against a yokai, in parallel to young Kwannon and Mitsuki. Was this book expecting an issue #11? Kwannon offers the Lady an extremely non-specific price – “my life, my death, my everything” – on the basis that she deserves everything that’s coming to her, but she’s more in line with the Lady’s mission of saving lost children.<\/p>\n

It’s not really made clear why the Lady is able to accept this offer and turn on Mitsuki, despite Mitsuki claiming to have her under control last issue. But, as noted above, there’s at least some indication that this arrangement is not as one-way as Mitsuki thinks it is, and besides, Kwannon’s pitch is that the Lady is being compelled to participate in something that goes against her fundamental nature – Mitsuki may simply be pushing her luck too far.<\/p>\n

PAGES 17-19.\u00a0<\/strong>Psylocke defeats Mitsuki.<\/em><\/p>\n

She puts Mitsuki into a coma, and the Lady takes her away. Kwannon claims that the Lady takes her “to the same place she took me”, but that was a mindscape – it really doesn’t answer Greycrow’s question about where Mitsuki is\u00a0physically<\/em> going. Of course, Kwannon may reasonably think that the fate of Mitsuki’s body isn’t the point.<\/p>\n

Presumably, if the book had continued, future storylines would have involved the question of what the Lady’s price might ultimately be, and the potential for Mitsuki to be redeemed.<\/p>\n

PAGE 20.\u00a0<\/strong>Closing montage.<\/em><\/p>\n

We’re told that the Hand trainees are taken to the Factory, though again, we don’t see them.<\/p>\n

Panel 2 is\u00a0Shinobi Shaw, along with his display of the Taxonomist’s butterflies from the first arc. The accompanying narration is talking about Psylocke’s own “moving forward” and “healing”, but presumably we’re meant to view Shinobi’s face turn in a similar light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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