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\"\"<\/a>AMAZING X-MEN vol 3 #1<\/strong>
\n“Flight”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Jed MacKay<\/strong>
\nArtist: Mahmud Asrar<\/strong>
\nColourist: Matthew Wilson<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Clayton Cowles<\/strong>
\nEditor: Tom Brevoort<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER:<\/strong> The core cast, with Cyclops supporting Schwarzchild.<\/p>\n

This is the third series to be called\u00a0Amazing X-Men<\/em>. The first was the miniseries which stood in for\u00a0X-Men<\/em> during the original “Age of Apocalypse” event back in 1995. The second was an ongoing series which ran for 19 issues in 2013-2015 – it’s the one that opens with Nightcrawler returning from the dead.<\/p>\n

This one is the stand-in for\u00a0X-Men<\/em> during “Age of Revelation”. To all intents and purposes, last week’s one-shot\u00a0X-Men: Age of Revelation Overture<\/em> was the real first issue of this series, and this story picks up the plot in progress: Cyclops and Beast have been transported into the bodies of their future selves in ten years’ time, with Revelation ruling a “mutant land” which is spreading across America. They promptly got attacked by Wolverine, with only Cyclops, Beast, Animalia (Jen Starkey), Glob Herman and Schwarzchild escaping. That’s where this issue picks up.<\/p>\n

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There are five “Age of Revelation” tie-in issues this week, but on the face of it, the only other one to advance the overall plot significantly is\u00a0World of Revelation<\/em> #1, an anthology title which includes Bei’s distress call to Apocalypse being received on Arakko. We’ll cover Binary<\/em> #1 and\u00a0Laura Kinney, Sabretooth<\/em> #1 in separate posts, since they’re stand-ins for ongoing titles, but they seem to be free-standing stories within the Age of Revelation world.\u00a0Longshots<\/em> #1 is just a wacky comedy book.<\/p>\n

PAGES 1-4.\u00a0<\/strong>The remaining AoR X-Men take stock.<\/em><\/p>\n

“You don’t know what we’ve sacrificed for this…”\u00a0<\/strong>We established in\u00a0X-Men: Age of Revelation Overture<\/em> that this timeline’s version of Glob Herman is a hardened soldier. Quite aside from that, though, he clearly doesn’t have much time for Cyclops, and certainly shows no signs of viewing him as a great leader. This might all be connected with the fact that in his timeline Cyclops failed to stop the rise of Revelation, but he was working with that Cyclops anyway. Moreover, Cyclops was told in\u00a0Overture\u00a0<\/em>that he had been brought to this timeline precisely because his leadership skills were valued. Despite that, none of the local characters actually seem to place much stock in them. At any rate, we don’t know at this stage what Glob’s “sacrifice” is, but we can make an educated guess. I’ll come back to that.<\/p>\n

“The only way you’re getting home now is by making sure Schwarzchild stays alive long enough to hook up with our agent in Philly.”\u00a0<\/strong>Again, we don’t know what Glob Herman’s referring to here. Philadelphia is Revelation’s capital city, though.<\/p>\n

3K.\u00a0<\/strong>In the two lead-in one-shots, we were told that Revelation had blamed the X-virus which created “this mutant land” on 3K, but that it was actually his own creation. Schwarzchild says that 3K reacted to this by going underground and abandoning his “X-Men”. Again, it sounds like we should expect to find out what happened to 3K later on.<\/p>\n

“Xorn became my teacher then.”\u00a0<\/strong>Presumably because he and Schwarzchild both have powers involving black holes.<\/p>\n

“I never thought Ramsey had it in him.”\u00a0<\/strong>This is an odd comment from Beast, because he’s a clone created after the fall of Krakoa using the archived memories of a Beast from early-1980s continuity. As such, he’s never really known Doug Ramsey. Nonetheless, other dialogue in this scene seems to clearly indicate that this is indeed the real Beast, since he’s the one picking up on the hints that he’s being lied to.<\/p>\n

Animalia<\/strong> and Hank are heading towards being a couple in the mainstream timeline, which is why Hank is not especially surprised to learn that it happened in Animalia’s past.<\/p>\n

“Ms Starkey is acting as if I had replaced my future self… which is surely not the case, as my future self had already been Babeled…”\u00a0<\/strong>In\u00a0Overture<\/em>, the AoR X-Men claimed that Scott and Hank had overridden the minds of their AoR counterparts, who had previously been turned into Babels by Revelation – that is, punished by the loss of language. This flatly contradicted\u00a0Age of Revelation<\/em> #0, where we saw them both, and Scott was talking. This scene strongly indicates that the bit about Babels was a lie.<\/p>\n

We know from other issues this week that Babels do exist – we see them in\u00a0Binary<\/em> and in\u00a0World of Revelation<\/em>. So apparently Hank and Scott were not Babels. Why lie about it? An obvious possibility is that this\u00a0isn’t<\/em> a mind-swap story, and the bit about overwriting their AoR counterparts was true. That would explain Glob and Animalia’s attitudes, and Glob’s reference to “sacrifice”. It would also fit with the indication at the end of\u00a0Age of Revelation<\/em> #0 that the main objective here is to arm Scott and Hank with information and then send them back in time to change the course of history, and it would explain why there isn’t a strand of this story covering events in the present day. It doesn’t really explain why there’s a need to lie to Scott and Hank about their future selves’ sacrifice, though – perhaps it’s to engage them emotionally in the need to stop Revelation?<\/p>\n

“I haven’t been able to make psychic contact with Jean, and no one can tell me what’s happened to her or the Phoenix.”\u00a0<\/strong>This is covered in\u00a0Binary<\/em> #1: Jean is dead (or at least believed to be dead). Carol Danvers is the new host of the Phoenix, and she’s been using it to keep the X-virus at bay from a human town. It seems highly unlikely that the AoR X-Men are genuinely unaware of this.<\/p>\n

PAGES 5-7.\u00a0<\/strong>Revelation brings Wolverine to heel.<\/em><\/p>\n

So Wolverine did indeed escape Xorn’s black hole in\u00a0Overture. <\/em>He remains silent in this scene, and doesn’t have the metal face mask that he usually wears in this timeline – the art conspicuously avoids showing us his face. This is odd, since his healing factor is obviously working, and it’s hard to imagine what could have happened to him that wouldn’t have either healed or been destroyed along with his clothes.<\/p>\n

Revelation seems to have correctly anticipated that “all you went through” will have shaken his control over Wolverine – which could refer to him escaping the black hole, or to being made to fight the X-Men. Controlling Wolverine seems to be a remarkably difficult exercise for Revelation – nobody else has been able to resist him at all, but with Wolverine he has to yell repeatedly, and needs three of his Choristers to boost his powers.<\/p>\n

The three Choristers here are Fabian Cortez (Revelation’s first Chorister, per\u00a0AoR\u00a0<\/em>#0), Khora (also shown in that issue) and\u00a0Chance<\/strong>, who had a prominent role in the 1980s Fallen Angels\u00a0<\/em>miniseries, but hasn’t been seen since. Cortez is openly nervous that Revelation is puting himself in unnecessary danger – this partly fits with his characterisation as a geek, but he’s also been with Revelation for years by this point and must have seen this before. It’s possible that the risk is specifically Revelation’s initial attempt to control Wolverine\u00a0without<\/em> an outside power boost.<\/p>\n

Why is Wolverine unusually resistant to Revelation’s power? Possibly because he’s a creature of instinct and spends so much of his time operating without language; as such, he may be less susceptible to Revelation’s language-based manipulation. Come to think of it, what’s Primal from\u00a0Generation Hope\u00a0<\/em>up to in this timeline.<\/p>\n

PAGES 8-12.\u00a0<\/strong>The X-Men arrive at the former Graymalkin Prison.<\/em><\/p>\n

The prison has been levelled by Revelation, with Corina Ellis being crucified and left to rot outside. Apparently, Revelation saw more symbolic value in destroying it as a prison than in restoring it as a piece of mutant heritage. But it’s also implied that Ellis committed a mass slaughter of mutant prisoners, who continue to haunt the ground, and that this is why nobody has been able to get in and do anything about it; Glob pretty much says outright that Ellis’s body was left hanging there because nobody could get in to do anything with it, rather than as an intentional symbol.<\/p>\n

Deathdream\u00a0<\/strong>from\u00a0Uncanny X-Men<\/em> is present, and says that he hasn’t aged because he’s dead. However, he clearly has a physical body, so he’s apparently referring more to an aspect of his powers. Deathdream isn’t leaning into his emo goth persona anywhere near as much here (though he does claim to like it here with the dead) – but that’s consistent with the way that persona is starting to fall away in\u00a0Uncanny<\/em>.<\/p>\n

PAGES 13-18.\u00a0<\/strong>Wolverine attacks again.<\/em><\/p>\n

Deathdream claims that he has always been afraid of Wolverine, who is of course a regular character in his home book. I don’t think we’ve really seen any sign of this, but it’s certainly easy to imagine Deathdream finding Wolverine particularly impossible to connect with.<\/p>\n

Wolverine beheads Deathdream. Since we know that he can come back from the dead, it’s possible that this isn’t terminal, although we don’t know much about Deathdream’s ability to reconstitute himself from serious physical damage. At any rate, the practical effect is that Deathdream is no longer holding the ghosts at bay, and they seem to get in Wolverine’s way. Is it possible that he was deliberately going for the most counterproductive target?<\/p>\n

PAGES 19-20.<\/strong>\u00a0The X-Men teleport into Providence.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is a seemingly normal city, but the AoR X-Men are terrified of the place, and the story about the teleporter going wrong seems likely to be true. Providence is under the control of Darkchild, with Juggernaut as her henchman, and she describes it as a “colonial holding of Limbo”.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Age of Revelation<\/em> #0, we were told that Magik had died when the X-Men broke Fabian Cortez out of jail, but “the Darkchild did not”. It seems that she’s succumbed entirely to her Darkchild persona. This sits awkwardly with recent storylines in Magik<\/em>, where the Illyana and Darkchild personas have largely reconciled.\u00a0AoR\u00a0<\/em>#0 also said that Juggernaut had quit the team after Illyana’s death; he seems to have become demonic himself.<\/p>\n

Standing next to them, and looking entirely unhappy to be there, is Psylocke. In\u00a0Overture<\/em>, she was an agent of Revelation, sent to kill Bei. After Psylocke impaled her, Bei indicated that she was going to tell Psylocke something, which we didn’t hear: “In telling you the truth, I will take my revenge. Because once you hear my words, your life will be over as well.” Psylocke then vanishes from the story, although Revelation assumes that she was obliterated by Bei’s “doom note” power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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