{"id":12047,"date":"2026-06-05T21:43:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12047"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:43:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:43:39","slug":"uncanny-x-men-29-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12047","title":{"rendered":"Uncanny X-Men #29 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>UNCANNY X-MEN vol 6 #29<\/strong>
\n“Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed, part four: A Prison and a Pyre”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Gail Simone<\/strong>
\nArtist: Luciano Vecchio<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Mattherw Wilson<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Clayton Cowles<\/strong>
\nEditor: Tom Brevoort<\/strong><\/p>\n

THE X-MEN:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rogue. <\/strong>She seems remarkably unfazed to learn that Gambit has grown dragon wings, and even continues to accept his (correct) assurances that the “Cannonball” she’s fighting is a fake and can safely be killed. Nonetheless, once the crisis is over, her top priority is to focus on helping him, and she plans to take a leave of absence from the team to get help for him.<\/p>\n

Her plan for dealing with Greymalkin was to send in M undercover as a prisoner to gather evidence, which would be more effective at bringing down the operation in the long run than simply smashing up the building. Quicksilver has been acting as a courier to relay M’s messages. That goes some way to explaining how M was in better health than she ought to have been given the prison food, though it’s not really made clear how Quicksilver was getting in and out.<\/p>\n

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Rogue sees herself and M as “bonded” by their shared high power levels, even though they don’t know each other well “aside from that bit with the Avengers” – referencing the\u00a0Uncanny Avengers<\/em> miniseries from “Fall of X”. She asks M and Quicksilver to lead the Louisiana X-Men in her absence.<\/p>\n

M.\u00a0<\/strong>Presumably she accepts Rogue’s offer, so we’ll treat her as a team member.<\/p>\n

Her full name, Monet Yvette Clarisse Maria Therese St Croix, has been given before (in\u00a0X-Men<\/em> vol 4 #18).<\/p>\n

She seems absolutely confident that she can take Perimeter in a fight. She’s presented as substantially more powerful than Rogue here, to the point of being able to take on Sarah Gaunt without any of the difficulty that Rogue had in the opening arc. (Admittedly, Sarah has been in Graymalkin for much of the intervening period so she may not be on top form.)<\/p>\n

Quicksilver. <\/strong>He shows up to help his partner M at the prison.\u00a0M refers to him as “my love”, which he says is the first time.<\/p>\n

Nightcrawler, Jubilee, Wolverine<\/strong> and\u00a0Gambit<\/strong> deal with the fake “New Mutants” and then teleport to the prison to finish off Perimeter.<\/p>\n

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

The Outliers (Ransom, Jitter, Calico and Deathdream)\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Mutina<\/strong>. According to Ransom, once everyone realises that they’re in a simulation, they break the spell and appear back at Haven House, still wearing their New Mutants costumes. It’s possible that Perimeter stretching himself too thinly has something to do with it as well.<\/p>\n

Calico is annoyed that Jitter never mentioned her epilepsy (which we found out about last issue).<\/p>\n

Marcus St Juniors<\/strong> is at Haven House, but doesn’t get much to do.<\/p>\n

Siryn. <\/strong>Like all the prisoners, she starts the issue under Perimeter’s mental control. He sends her to kill Banshee when he shows up at the prison, presumably out of sadism rather than coincidence. Once Banshee appears, however, she and Blob both seem to be freed from Perimeter’s influence. It’s understandable that Siryn gets freed by the emotional shock of seeing her father, but Blob has no such investment, so perhaps Perimeter is just distracted.<\/p>\n

Banshee.\u00a0<\/strong>His Irish dialogue reads (I think): “I was ambushed (?). I’m sorry. Come now, my dear. Your dad is here. I’m here.”<\/p>\n

He says that he didn’t come to break Siryn out earlier, because “after the Vigil, I didn’t think you’d want me to.” That refers to a scene in Hellfire Vigil <\/em>where they cross paths and she asks him to leave her alone, presumably under some degree of outside psychic influence.<\/p>\n

It’s not entirely clear why he shows up at the prison here. If we assume it’s not just pure coincidence, then perhaps he’s also in on the scheme and he’s been tipped off about the likelihood of things at the prison coming to a head (which, after all, M saw coming several issues ago).<\/p>\n

A bunch of other characters also appear as prisoners who get freed from Perimeter’s influence in the course of the issue:<\/p>\n