{"id":5486,"date":"2020-08-13T20:07:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T19:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5486"},"modified":"2020-08-13T20:07:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T19:07:48","slug":"marauders-11-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5486","title":{"rendered":"Marauders #11 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

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MARAUDERS #11<\/strong>
“To Live and Die on Krakoa”<\/strong>
by Gerry Duggan & Stefano Caselli<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 1 \/ COVER.<\/strong> Kate’s funeral. Storm and Emma (with Lockheed) send her body out to sea. This doesn’t exactly reflect the scene in the issue, since Lockheed isn’t at the funeral (he doesn’t show up until later) and Emma doesn’t wear white in the story (but she’s more recognisable this way). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue has a “Path to X of Swords” logo in the top right, though nothing about the story is obviously linked to the crossover, as opposed to storylines that were already in progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 2.<\/strong> Nightcrawler writes another letter to Kate.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We saw another one of these letters in issue #10. In that issue, it was an email. This one seems to be hand-written.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The White Bishop<\/strong> is Christian Frost, and he and Bobby were clearly moving towards a relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Young Cable is dating the Cuckoos!”<\/strong> In Cable<\/em> #2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A tiki bar has opened on the island!”<\/strong> As seen in X-Force<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 3.<\/strong> Kate in her coffin.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has coins on her eyes, traditionally a symbolic payment to Charon to ferry the deceased into the afterlife. Considering that it’s been four issues since she drowned, she’s looking remarkably intact. Krakoa must have access to excellent, if under-employed, funerary services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 4-5.<\/strong> Recap and credits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 6-8.<\/strong> Kate’s funeral.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently this is the first funeral of any sort on Krakoa, so presumably if anyone else dies on Krakoa, the body is simply disposed of without ceremony. It’s the flaming Viking longboat format, on the logic that they refuse to have her as the only person buried on Krakoa. Her coffin is hovering, so presumably that’s Rachel holding it up. The attendees who are recognisable at the funeral are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Magik<\/strong>, her one-time roommate.<\/li>
  • Prestige<\/strong>, her former teammate in the X-Men and Excalibur.<\/li>
  • Gentle<\/strong>, who’s still only been used in cameos in the Krakoan era, and is basically a random crowd-filler so far as his relationship to Kitty is concerned.<\/li>
  • Shark-Girl<\/strong>, who’s in the same boat.<\/li>
  • Cyclops<\/strong><\/li>
  • The green boy with the fin on his head is Fish<\/strong>, a Brazilian mutant who was rescued by the Marauders in issue #4.<\/li>
  • Magneto<\/strong><\/li>
  • Professor X<\/strong><\/li>
  • Shinobi Shaw<\/strong><\/li>
  • Sebastian Shaw<\/strong><\/li>
  • Jumbo Carnation<\/strong><\/li>
  • The Banshee<\/strong>, who never actually served on a team alongside Kitty, but it’s not like he has anything else to do.<\/li>
  • I’m not sure who the guy with the glasses and the scar on his head is meant to be. It looks a bit like Agent X<\/strong>, but he’s not a mutant (and the scars aren’t quite right).<\/li>
  • Domino<\/strong> from X-Force<\/em>.<\/li>
  • Storm<\/strong>, Kate’s longtime mother figure.<\/li>
  • Emma Frost<\/strong>. Note that Emma uncharacteristically wears black for this event, and she’s the only person who seems to have turned out in mourning clothes. Everyone else is in their standard uniforms or casual wear (aside from Shinobi, who seems to have deliberately worn white<\/em>). The only other people to wear something formal are the Hellfire Club members and Jumbo Carnation, and they dress like that all the time. Emma seems to be particularly keen to show respect.<\/li>
  • Christian Frost<\/strong>, with his hand on Iceman’s shoulder.<\/li>
  • Iceman<\/strong>, whose reaction to that is difficult to read.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    PAGES 9-11.<\/strong> Lockheed returns to reveal the truth about Kate’s death.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Apparently, Emma can read Lockheed’s mind. When Lockheed debuted in Uncanny X-Men<\/em> vol 1 #168, Professor X claimed that Lockheed was “completely impervious to my telepathic probes”. But we’ve also been told that his race have some sort of psychic powers (see the abominable Excalibur<\/em> vol 1 #40, if you must), so presumably he can allow scans when he chooses – and all Emma gets from this is an image of what Lockheed saw, rather than a clear read on what Lockheed was thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    PAGE 12.<\/strong> Data page. Professor X’s remarks at the funeral (with a misplaced apostrophe in the title). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    “Our entire world would have been destroyed if Katherine and her gift were not in the right place at the right time.”<\/strong> In Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men<\/em> #1, where Kitty phased a giant space bullet all the way through the Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    “We lost her for a time after that, but we found her.” <\/strong>Kitty was trapped in the bullet as it shot off into space. It was all a bit silly. She was retrieved by Magneto, without much build-up, in Uncanny X-Men<\/em> vol 1 #521-522. (Basically, they didn’t really have any ideas for how to end the storyline, so they just got rid of it and moved on.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    PAGES 13-14.<\/strong> Emma takes Lockheed to the Healer, then persuades Professor X to have one last try at resurrecting Kitty.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    PAGES 15-18.<\/strong> Storm speaks to Delores Ramirez.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Stepford Cuckoos presumably make everyone else get off the train, which doesn’t seem like the subtlest way of doing it, but hey, it’s cool. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Delores Ramirez<\/strong> is the author of the various X-Desk memos that we’ve seen throughout this series. She was named in Wolverine<\/em> #3, but this is the first time we’ve seen her on panel. She’s mentioned her mother benefitting from Krakoan drugs before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    “The warning about the poisoned Krakoan medicines”<\/strong> was sent from a burner phone in issue #7, too late for Kate to receive it. This is the first confirmation that the X-Men got it anyway, and thwarted Homines Verendi’s plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Farragut West<\/strong> station apparently serves a business district, so presumably Delores is on her way to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    PAGES 19-24.<\/strong> Emma realises how to complete Kate’s resurrection.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Basically, Emma’s insight is that instead of Kate breaking out of the egg like most people, she needs to be helped to phase through it. It’s more of a thematic resolution than anything else, since it doesn’t really explain what this has to do with her inability to use the gates – though we’re obviously meant to take notice of the fact that Emma is the one who has the insight into Kate that solves the problem. It’s worth remembering that the build to Kate’s return was never meant to be quite this protracted – she died at the end of January, and this issue was originally planned for May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Resurrected Kate has naturally lost her tattoos, but she seems to have them restored in the next-issue trailer art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    “Eighteen times.”<\/strong> There’s no obvious plot significance to this. It may simply be a reference to the association of 18 with life in Jewish numerology – apparently, there’s a custom of giving gifts in multiples of 18 to symbolise long life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    “The last thing I remember is you kissing me at the Red Keep.”<\/strong> That was on page 13 of issue #5, immediately after they discussed their fears about resurrection. This means Kate has no memory of fighting Homines Verendi in the rest of issues #5 and #6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Why that would be the last thing Kate remembers is unclear. Logically, Kate’s memories ought to extend to the last time they were backed up, unless somebody’s taken a conscious decision to leave them out – which nobody seems to ask for. But the thematic angle in terms of the importance of her relationship with Emma is so blindingly obvious that we can just chalk it up to plot convenience for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    PAGE 25.<\/strong> Data page. Another memo from the X-Desk, though whoever Delores is writing to, it must be someone she’s on very familiar terms with. (She kept her cool pretty well in Storm’s presence, so we can take it that she’s not just starstruck.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Delores picks up on the fact that Storm is being strangely underused as a face of Krakoa, not least given her international profile – and suspects that Storm is getting frustrated about that. Storm has indeed been curiously underused in the Krakoan era, relegated to a supporting character in a B-title, and this is an interesting suggestion that there may be a longer-term reason for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    “Damn, I should’ve asked about that party.”<\/strong> The Hellfire Gala. Delores noticed the preparations for it in her memo in issue #9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    PAGES 26-27.<\/strong> Trailers and credits. The Krakoan reads NEXT: REBIRTH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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