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\"\"<\/a>LAURA KINNEY, SABRETOOTH #1<\/strong>
\nWriter: Erica Schultz<\/strong>
\nArtist: Valentina Pinti<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Rachelle Rosenberg<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Cory Petit<\/strong>
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER:<\/strong> Laura as Sabretooth, in an overgrown city from Age of Revelation. Specifically, the sign says it’s Market Street, which is a main road in Philadelphia, Revelation’s capital.<\/p>\n

Obviously, this is the\u00a0Age of Revelation\u00a0<\/em>stand-in book for\u00a0Laura Kinney, Wolverine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

PAGE 1-11. <\/strong>Laura asks Akihiro and Gabby to get her son Alex out of town.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, it’s an 11 page scene.<\/p>\n

“This is what mutants wanted all along…”\u00a0<\/strong>Laura’s introduction to Age of Revelation Philadelphia presents it as a Krakoa-style utopia, which is basically how the Revelation himself portrays it. The ordinary inhabitants of Philadelphia certainly seem pretty relaxed here. It may not be significant, but for an all-mutant population, they skew much more heavily to human-passing than they ever did in Krakoa. Come to think of it, so did the Babels we saw in\u00a0Binary<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Before the government tried to destroy Revelation’s compound, they sent in super villains and assassins to stop us…”<\/strong> This comes from\u00a0X-Men: Age of Revelation<\/em> #0. Xorn’s narrative in that issue says that “when they gave up on soldiers and resorted instead to assassins, Revelation had any number of mutants to protect him” (and makes a point about the memory of Krakoa being a driving factor). The art shows Psylocke defending Revelation from Bullseye, but evidently Laura had joined him by this point.<\/p>\n

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The same page of\u00a0AoR\u00a0<\/em>#0 shows the US government apparently attempting to nuke Philadelphia, and Vanisher teleporting the bomb away to destroy Washington DC instead; this is presumably what Laura describes as an attempt to “destroy Revelation’s compound”, which may suggest that she doesn’t know the scale of it.<\/p>\n

“He [Revelation] protects all mutants, even the ones who don’t agree with him.” <\/strong>This is obviously not true, given what we’ve seen of the Babels and the X-Men, but Laura at least affects to believe it, even in her internal monologue. However, her actions in this issue suggest at least a degree of doubt.<\/p>\n

“If I was to keep my promise to help and save mutants…”\u00a0<\/strong>This is indeed something that came up in\u00a0Laura Kinney, Wolverine<\/em>, despite being rather generic as a motivation for a mutant hero.<\/p>\n

“When Zane took his father’s codename, he wore it with pride…”\u00a0<\/strong>From the scene as a whole, we gather that Sabretooth had a son, Zane Creed, who took up the Sabretooth mantle. Sabretooth II and Laura become a couple and, at least according to Gabby, Laura abandons her family to be with him. They have a child, Alex. Sabretooth II dies, and Laura takes up the name to commemorate him, rather than the Sabretooth we know.<\/p>\n

We’ve never heard of Zane Creed before, but from the look of Alex, he must meet Laura in the fairly near future relative to the mainstream Marvel Universe. Since we’ve been assured that this is a possible future timeline, it must follow that Zane Creed already exists, even though we haven’t met him before. We learn very little about Zane beyond the fact that Laura evidently loved him; however, the fact that he had any “pride” in taking up Victor Creed’s identity hardly reflects well on him. On the other hand, Laura does insist that he “sacrificed enough for all mutants”.<\/p>\n

“A Seraph of the Great Revolution.”\u00a0<\/strong>The Seraphim were described in\u00a0Age of Revelation\u00a0<\/em>#0 as Revelation’s “chosen” and as his enforcers.<\/p>\n

“I know you and Akihiro are looking to leave the territories.”\u00a0<\/strong>Laura claims later in the issue to have learned this from Quentin Quire.<\/p>\n

“Revelation has many enemies and you don’t have any powers.” <\/strong>Presumably because he’s pre-pubescent, rather than because he isn’t a mutant. We’ve been repeatedly told that “this mutant land” is hostile to humans, but it would make sense that that didn’t extend to mutants whose powers had yet to manifest. Then again, Hellion openly suggests later in the issue that Alex might\u00a0not<\/em> be a mutant, in which case it might simply be that the X-virus doesn’t affect children.<\/p>\n

Laura’s rationale for sending Alex away is that she fears him being a target for Revelation’s enemies, which would fit with the suggestion that Laura has only recently been promoted to her current role (Gabby says “now that you’re part of Revelation’s inner circle”). However, it’s clearly signalled that there’s some other reason in mind, since Akihiro clearly doesn’t think her explanation is sufficient, and she won’t be drawn on it further.<\/p>\n

“His healing factor is already taxed keeping Bagra-Ghul at bay.”\u00a0<\/strong>Akihiro still has his status quo from the recently-cancelled\u00a0Hellverine<\/em> book, as the Ghost Rider-style host of the demon Bagra-Ghul. It seems at least a little odd that the impact of this on Akihiro’s healing factor is apparently news to Laura ten years down the line.<\/p>\n

PAGE 12.\u00a0<\/strong>Hellion reports to Revelation.<\/em><\/p>\n

We saw Hellion as one of the Seraphim in Age of Revelation <\/em>#0. He\u00a0was set up as a potential love interest for Laura in NYX<\/em> (though with Kiden clearly the preferred option), and showed up in Laura Kinney, Wolverine<\/em> #6-7 as the “trap” partner in Laura’s illusory perfect suburban life. Here, he seems to be motivated mainly by jealousy at being rejected in favour of Zane (and still being out of favour even though Zane is dead).<\/p>\n

PAGES 13-15.\u00a0<\/strong>Laura meets with Revelation.<\/em><\/p>\n

Logan. <\/strong>As in other issues, the Age of Revelation Wolverine is a silent enforcer, though here he stands silently next to Revelation as a bodyguard. (This isn’t just for Laura’s benefit, because he was already with Revelation when Hellion made his report.) Laura recognises that something awful has happened to him, but seems to blame it on the X-virus or some other misfortune that can’t be Revelation’s fault.<\/p>\n

“Do you not feel he wouldbe safe here?” <\/strong>Laura makes no attempt to lie to Revelation and offers the same rationale that she did in the first scene: her concern is to not have Alex living in a place which is likely to be the subject of attacks. This obviously implies a lack of faith in Revelation’s protection, but Laura appeals to her sensitivity over the fate of Zane.<\/p>\n

“His Omega Kids heard that mutants from Helicarrierville and just over the river are planning on leaving.” <\/strong>The Omega Kids are children who serve as spies for Quentin Quire. Helicarrierville is a shanty town in the ruins of a downed Helicarrier, which we saw in\u00a0Age of Revelation\u00a0<\/em>#0. It was implied to be somewhat disfavoured by Revelation – Xorn had no qualms about walking around there openly.<\/p>\n

Revelation seems surprised by this information, which implies that Quentin shared it with Laura first. That would be odd, unless Quentin regards it as unremarkable news (and only worth sharing with Laura because it affected two of her immediate relatives). However, Revelation acts as if it’s highly unusual and rather dispiriting to see mutants leaving in any significant numbers. Laura recognises that these people are clearly dissatisfied with Revelation’s rule, but sees them as misguided.<\/p>\n

“I’ve heard tell a group is heading to Arakko… It has become even more inhospitable to Terran mutants.”\u00a0<\/strong>Laura reacts to this claim with scepticism, claiming that contact with Arakko was lost at some point in the past. Revelation claims to “have my ways”, the most likely candidate being something to do with his wife Bei. However, Revelation seems to be just lying, in an attempt to manipulate Laura into trying to reclaim Alex without directly ordering her to. After all, she’s a true believer and there’s no need to shake her faith in him.<\/p>\n

We get a tour of Age of Revelation Arakko in the first story in\u00a0this week’s\u00a0World of Revelation<\/em> #0, and we don’t see anything to support Revelation’s claims about the hostility of Arakko. On the contrary, we’re told that human refugees fleeing Revelation have formed a community in Port Prometheus, and that most of Arakko “has mellowed somewhat in the years since the Genesis War”.<\/p>\n

PAGES 16-17.\u00a0<\/strong>Laura, Akihiro and Sage make plans.<\/em><\/p>\n

Camden Aquarium.<\/strong> This is obviously meant to be Adventure Aquarium in Camden, New Jersey – the building is the same, although the sign has been changed. This area of the Revelation Territories seems a lot more dilapidated than Philadelphia, which may suggest that the mutant population is basically concentrated in the capital – mutants being less numerous than ordinary humans were, after all.<\/p>\n

Shark-Girl<\/strong> was one of the students from\u00a0Wolverine and the X-Men<\/em>, making her first appearance in this timeline.<\/p>\n

Sage\u00a0<\/strong>still regards herself as an X-Man, despite not being in touch with the remaining team.<\/p>\n

“The Blink-hard drive”.\u00a0<\/strong>Sage seems to be building a teleportation gate “power[ed]” in some unspecified way by the consciousness of mutant teleporter Blink (who is presumably dead, though this might be a back-up copy). It’s hard to see how a consciousness would provide a power source, but I guess it might make sense for Blink’s consciousness to help in steering a teleport device.<\/p>\n

PAGES 18-20.\u00a0<\/strong>Hellion confronts Laura.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Scout and Fang.”\u00a0<\/strong>Gabby and Akihiro, in their long-dropped Krakoan-era codenames.<\/p>\n

Laura’s response is apparently to kill Hellion, which seems unlikely to go down well with the authorities, given that he’s also in the Inner Circle – and wasn’t actually making any physical threats to her at the time, however unpleasant his behaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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