{"id":5569,"date":"2020-09-03T21:44:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T20:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5569"},"modified":"2020-09-03T21:44:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T20:44:27","slug":"new-mutants-12-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5569","title":{"rendered":"New Mutants #12 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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NEW MUTANTS vol 4 #12<\/strong>
“Monster Machine” <\/strong>
by Ed Brisson & Marco Failla<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong> Magik lashes out at the media (in general, rather than specifically Dox, but okay).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 2-3.<\/strong> Prologue – more monsters in Nova Roma.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This scene picks up on a plot thread from issue #8, where Magma, Armor and Boom-Boom dealt with a bunch of weird mutant-hunting creatures in the jungles around Nova Roma (Magma’s hidden anachronistic home town). “Senator Aquila” is Magma’s father. That story ended with the unnamed woman seen here showing up looking for revenge for the death of some of her creations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

PAGES 4-5.<\/strong> Recap and credits. The small print has changed to “Fair is fair” on the recap page, and “Real Monsters” on the credits page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 6-7.<\/strong> Trinary gives Magik information about Dox.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think this is the first time we’ve seen the Green Lagoon bar in New Mutants<\/em>, but it features regularly in X-Force<\/em>. Anole is the bartender here (um, isn’t he a bit young for that?), instead of the usual Blob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dox<\/strong> is an anti-mutant news site which has shown up repeatedly in the Ed Brisson run covering mutant-related stories with an obviously hostile slant. From most of what we’ve seen, its actual stories seem to be broadly genuine, within the limitations of the information they have available to them; the bigger problem is its insistence on revealing the whereabouts of individual mutants who aren’t on Krakoa. The name of the site obviously suggests that that’s the main selling point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trinary<\/strong> is a character from X-Men: Red<\/em> who can connect with machines and the internet, basically. She’s not done much in the Krakoan era beyond deliver exposition, and here she is to deliver some more. As she points out, her powers would allow her to take Dox down from afar, but Magik evidently wants to make a big statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 8.<\/strong> Data page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An extract from Dox’s coverage of mutants using public gateways. Bearing in mind that the gateways are all in public locations, and that most of the people listed here are public figures, you could just about make a case for this being news coverage, if it wasn’t for the tone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not clear why Anole and Blob have been visiting New York, but maybe they’re just getting supplies for the bar. Storm and three of the Stepford Cuckoos visited Washington DC in Marauders<\/em> #11. (How Dox can tell the Cuckoos apart is beyond me.) Pete Wisdom is probably just a random name, but for what it’s worth we haven’t actually seen him on Krakoa before now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 9-17.<\/strong> Magik, Mirage and Glob Herman at the offices of Dox.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joseph Canning, the publisher of Dox, is a new character, as are all of the named victims. Obviously the dead victims could be resurrected, but that isn’t really the point. If Canning wasn’t giving out the details of individual mutants then he would have a reasonable point with parts of his speech, but for heaven’s sake, he’s running a website called Dox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 18.<\/strong> Data page with Dox offline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 19-21.<\/strong> More of Nova Roma.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The woman and her creatures have apparently slaughtered the Nova Roma public – although we’re specifically told that some people escaped by plane. Aquilla is kept alive to lure the New Mutants in for revenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 22-25.<\/strong> Glob and Magik talk.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glob is clearly less than convinced that he did the right thing in letting his anger get the better of him. We’re probably meant to agree with Magik that he was in the right, although she’s a funny character to give that speech to, since her main role these days is to have a dodgy moral compass. Mirage would have been a more natural choice, if you wanted someone to unambiguously endorse him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think this is the first time we’ve been given Glob’s back story before he joined the X-Men. The “other kids” he mentions falling in with are Kid Omega’s Omega Gang, during their juvenile delinquent phase, from his earliest appearances in Grant Morrison’s New X-Men<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glob is still raising chickens, a hobby he picked up during Age of X-Man<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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