{"id":5403,"date":"2020-07-22T21:39:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5403"},"modified":"2020-07-22T21:39:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:39:50","slug":"new-mutants-11-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5403","title":{"rendered":"New Mutants #11 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

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COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong> The New Mutants inside Tashi Repina’s candy-coloured happy dreamworld – which does <\/em>happen in this story, but only for a couple of pages. Magik isn’t present for the actual scene, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 2.<\/strong> Armor’s parents tempt her to drop her shield.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picking up from the cliffhanger in issue #10. As we’ll see later, they’re just an illusion. What’s interesting is that unlike most of the nightmares in Tashi’s psychic orb, this seems to be calculated to interfere with the New Mutants’ attempts to help. We’re told later on that once Tashi is asleep (and her powers are active) her body seems to try to keep her that way. But this feels as if something a little more directed is going on. Note also that there’s a vague parallel with the fate of Tashi’s own parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

PAGES 3-4.<\/strong> Credits and recap. This is “Ice Cream Dreams” by Ed Brisson and Flaviano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 5.<\/strong> Cypher encourages Mondo to act.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a first reading, it reads as if Cypher’s got a prior plan in mind. But in context of the story as a whole, it seems more like he’s just prompting Mondo because he has useful powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 6-7.<\/strong> Mirage, Boom-Boom and Wolfsbane deal with the Carnelians.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 8-10.<\/strong> Mondo and Wildside give Tashi good dreams.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mondo<\/strong> is apparently able to use his powers to absorb the remaining parts of Armor’s force field. I’m… not quite sure how that works, since it’s an energy field, and she’s supposed to have dropped it already, but… okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tashi<\/strong> remains in her nightmare form even when the dreams turn nice. Note that we saw a photo of her in issue #9 and she looked completely normal, so apparently her transformation is very recent. In fairness, given the way her powers have been described, she couldn’t have been wandering around for very long without coming to attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also worth noting is that Mondo only asked Wildside to give Tashi good dreams – but taking her out of nightmare mode also turns out to wake her up, almost immediately. That seems significant. Has it broken the control of the persona that was keeping her under?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dream sequence features cuddly toy versions of Black Widow, Colossus, Squirrel Girl and Spider-Man, among others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 11-16.<\/strong> Magik shows up to rescue the team.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New Mutants who were inside the Nightmare Sphere are all completely exhausted, presumably due to the anaesthetic mentioned in the next scene. Chamber’s fire seems to have gone out, which has sometimes been portrayed as involving hideous injury in the past; he’s still able to speak, somehow, so his psi-powers must be working to some degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite reasonably, Dani wants to surrender rather than fight the Carnelian army. Even if they’re going to ignore Carnelian law, they might as well do it the safe way by sitting peacefully in a cell and waiting to be teleported home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 17.<\/strong> Data page. Another extract from Dox, which is reporting the Carnelian government’s party line on the incident. As with the Pilger incident, Dox’s story is wrong, but it could<\/em> conceivably be what they honestly believe based on their second-hand sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Mirage (a.k.a. Psyche)”<\/strong> Psyche was Mirage’s codename in the very early issues of New Mutants<\/em> vol 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Boom-Boom (a.k.a. Boomer, Time Bomb, Meltdown, Firecracker)”<\/strong> The same list we had in issue #4 (minus the facetious “Dr Madame McSplode”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Traskwuzright”<\/strong> The commenter is presumably thinking of Bolivar Trask, the original creator of the Sentinels and a high-profile writer of doomsday books about mutant domination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 18-19.<\/strong> Debriefing with the Healer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Healer<\/strong> is the guy in the bandages, more often seen in X-Force<\/em> during the Krakoan era. As in that series, he seems to be treated here as an actual knowledgeable doctor in addition to his mutant healing powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cosmar.<\/strong> Tashi has taken – or been given – the name Cosmar. We’ve seen before some degree of encouragement for newcomers to embrace a mutant name. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The languages of Carnelia were said in issue #9 to be Russian and Ukrainian. And Tashi’s surname, Repina, is ethnically Russian. Despite that, “Cosmar” is Romanian. It means “nightmare”, though it can also mean “incubus”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 20.<\/strong> Another excerpt from Boom-Boom’s diary, in which she’s noticeably more reflective than she ever is around other characters. Note that the header describes this as the diary of “Tabitha Smith”, although she does still sign off as “Boom-Boom”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Brazilian mutant-hunting monsters appeared in issue #8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 21-22.<\/strong> Mirage briefs Maxime and Manon.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putting the dangerous psychic girl in the hands of the dangerous psychic kids! What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I used to pull people’s nightmares from their heads.”<\/strong> Again, in the early issues of New Mutants<\/em> vol 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I can change her memory…”<\/strong> Maxime did this with Angel and Beak in issue #6. Armor and Glob Herman found out and gave them a lecture, but evidently didn’t pass it on. At least Maxime asks this time – and seems to accept Dani’s flat rejection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presumably the Krakoan greenery on Cosmar’s head is some sort of monitor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 23-24.<\/strong> The New Mutants discuss Dox.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There’s no law against it…”<\/strong> That would (obviously) vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Other countries have rather stricter laws on data protection, privacy and online harassment than the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glob Herman<\/strong> was cooking for the team last issue too. It seems to be his thing now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 25-26.<\/strong> Trailers. Do you really need a cypher to know that the Krakoan text says “NEXT: DOX”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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