{"id":5170,"date":"2020-03-04T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5170"},"modified":"2020-03-04T22:08:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T22:08:13","slug":"marauders-9-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5170","title":{"rendered":"Marauders #9 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 1 \/ COVER.<\/strong> Bishop shoots at Yellowjacket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PAGES 2-4.<\/strong> Pyro arrives on Krakoa and is immediately besieged by adoring fans. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we’ll see later, this is a dream created by Emma Frost to keep Pyro’s mind busy and Yellowjacket confused. For what it’s worth, though, note that the other Marauders are entirely absent from Pyro’s dream, even though he’s supposed to be just off the boat. The endless beach party of Krakoa is something we’ve seen in plenty of stories, but here it’s used as a trope of ludicrous fantasy, which is… interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean Grey appears as the one-dimensional love interest – presumably this is Emma’s reading of Pyro’s fantasy, since when we see her later, she doesn’t exactly seem in the mood to be making private jokes. Pyro seems remarkably gullible in all this, but presumably that’s Emma’s influence too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The song lyrics are from “Free Bird” by Lynyrd Skynyrd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 5-6. <\/strong>Credits and recap. The story is “Journey to the Center of Pyro”, by Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli and Edgar Delgado. The recap page identifies this Yellowjacket as “the size-altering C.E.O. of Cross Technological Enterprises”. As I mentioned before, the last time this armour showed up, it was in the hands of Darren Cross. Technically, however, the CEO of Cross Technological Enterprises is Darren’s son Augustine (who inherited the company after his father’s apparent death), so presumably that’s who’s in the costume here. His behaviour certainly seems to fit Augustine better than Darren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 7.<\/strong> Emma works on Pyro’s fantasy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is presumably Emma allowing Bishop into her mind to see the process, which he perceives as Emma directing dummies on a stage set. Emma has picked up on the thoughts of the tiny, miniaturised Yellowjacket, who entered Pyro’s bloodstream a couple of issues ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emma is shivering, though it’s not entirely clear why. Presumably it’s just because her physical body has been stuck on the coast next to Pyro for an uncomfortably long period of time, keeping Pyro occupied. (But Krakoa is usually depicted as very warm, so if that’s the idea, this would work better at night.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 8-9.<\/strong> Bishop joins Emma in dealing with Pyro.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bishop’s home<\/strong> is apparently now in the Hellfire Club buildings. There’s an awful lot of guns around, but he also has a bookshelf and what looks to be a collection of vinyl records. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Some time ago I was in need of … a touch of rhinoplasty.”<\/strong> Emma mentioned in New X-Men <\/em>vol 1 #120 that she’d had plastic surgery on her nose in the past. Of course, this could be referring to any old fight where she broke her nose (such as New X-Men<\/em> vol 1 #118).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not exactly <\/em>clear why Emma doesn’t just attack Yellowjacket directly, despite some handwaving attempts to explain that it’s terribly risky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 10-14.<\/strong> Yellowjacket realises that he’s been busted, kills Pyro and Emma, and escapes out to sea.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t worry, it’s all another illusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yellowjacket thinks the mutants are “trying to bankrupt me”, which is a bit weird, because he’s not running a pharmaceutical company. What have Verendi told him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 15-16.<\/strong> Data pages – another two pages from the anonymous man on the US government’s X-desk, mostly just recapping the plot and spelling out Verendi’s plan. The main new piece of information surrounds the status of the Madripoorian royal family, but all we really need to know is that they’ve been sidelined in Verendi’s takeover of the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeff Bannister<\/strong> is a character from Wolverine<\/em>, and over in that book he is indeed dealing with the problem of narcotics made from Krakoan drugs. The X-desk author is at pains to stress that he doesn’t believe the mutants have anything to do with this (which is correct), and he clearly believes mutant drugs are wonderful things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rio Verde, Arizona.<\/strong> The “small mutant enclave” is the Morlocks, as we saw in issue #7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“HellfireGala.com”.<\/strong> Jumbo Carnation pitched the Hellfire Gala to Emma Frost in issue #7, who accepted the idea even though “neither of us knows what it is yet”. That domain is registered, but doesn’t seem to be in use – which matches what the memo says, in fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 17-20.<\/strong> Magneto and the Stepford Cuckoos debrief Pyro.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Stepford Cuckoos<\/strong> haven’t shown up much in this series, beyond a cameo in issue #2 where they seemed to be declining an offer to join the Hellfire Club. As in that story, they refer to Emma as “mum”, which is technically accurate in as much as they’re cloned from her, but more familiar than they’ve been in previous eras. Three of the Cuckoos appear here, of whom Esme and Sophie are named. As in House of X<\/em>, one is wearing black – the significance of that, if any, remains unexplained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The next electro-magnetic pulse.”<\/strong> A counter-measure introduced after Xavier’s assassination in X-Force<\/em> #1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 21-22.<\/strong> Emma and Pyro telepathically terrorist Verendi.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Straightforward enough. Emma runs down the Hellfire kids as pathetic imitators, which of course they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 23.<\/strong> The Five are failing to resurrect Kate.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or more accurately, they’re failing to resurrect someone – nobody outright says that it’s Kate, but that’s the clear implication. For whatever reason, her new body never seems to be viable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 24-25.<\/strong> Lockheed set off from Madripoor.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accompanied by a narrative from Emma to the effect that she needs Kate to inspire her to rise above her darker instincts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 26.<\/strong> Data page. Beast’s report on the implications of Yellowjacket’s infiltration, which is self explanatory. Beast also mentions the Hellfire Gala, which is clearly going to be important. (He doesn’t want to go.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 27-28.<\/strong> Reading order and trailers. The Krakoan reads NEXT: HUSH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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