{"id":5823,"date":"2020-11-05T20:46:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T20:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5823"},"modified":"2020-11-05T20:46:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T20:46:46","slug":"marauders-14-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5823","title":{"rendered":"Marauders #14 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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MARAUDERS #14<\/strong>
“X of Swords, Chapter 13”<\/strong>
by Gerry Duggan, Benjamin Percy, Stefano Caselli & Edgar Delgado<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1:<\/strong> Storm dances with Death. This issue is pretty straightforward, by the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 2:<\/strong> Data page. It’s the menu for Saturnyne’s pre-contest dinner, and pretty self-explanatory. The “raw delicacies originating from the Dryador Sea” are the last of their kind because the seas were destroyed by the Horde of Amenth when they invaded Dryador in X of Swords: Creation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturnyne’s quote has fairly obvious religious overtones with the bread and wine. It’s vaguely <\/em>possible that it’s meant to echo Proverbs 9:5 (“Come, eat of my bread \/ And drink of the wine I have mixed \/ Forsake foolishness and live \/ And go in the way of understanding”), which would cast Saturnyne as Wisdom, but more likely it’s just general Christian imagery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 3.<\/strong> Credits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 4.<\/strong> Recap page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

PAGE 5 PANEL 1.<\/strong> Jim Jaspers in the Crooked Market.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This seems to be a broadly legitimate food market – and Saturnyne’s happy enough to get food from it, at any rate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 5 PANEL 2 TO PAGE 9.<\/strong> The drinks reception before dinner.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Death. <\/strong>As per the cover, the focus here is on Storm and Death. Death comes across here as broadly reasonable, but then perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that War is the ridiculously aggressive one; Death, in himself, just represents a fact of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cypher<\/strong> is lurking in the corner (and seems to have Warlock as his arm). The woman who barges him out of the way is Bei the Blood Moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wolverine. <\/strong>As we’ll see later, Wolverine is planning to short circuit all this by killing Saturnyne. Storm seems happy enough with this. “Don’t miss” refers to “If you come for the king, you best not miss” (which is a paraphrase of Ralph Waldo Emerson).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 10-11.<\/strong> The Hall of Fallen Banners.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hall itself is new, and the meaning of the name isn’t immediately obvious – unless it’s something to do with the opposing sides laying down their banners for a truce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aside from the champions and Saturnyne, we can also see some of the other rulers of the Otherword realms, mostly gathered along the near side of the table: Jim Jaspers, two of the Sevalithi, Famine (who is not a champion but is present as the regent of Dryador), Roma and Merlyn (who seem to be talking). We see Vesperidae on the next page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Famine doesn’t particularly want to be there, presumably because… well, it’s a feast, and he’s Famine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 12-14.<\/strong> Wolverine yells at Captain Avalon.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturnyne was trying to seduce Captain Avalon in Excalibur<\/em> #13, and Wolverine evidently thinks that playing along a little bit further would have been a better call. Why he suddenly chooses to raise the point now is harder to decipher, unless it’s some sort of act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Captain Avalon<\/strong> asks for a “nonintoxicant” drink because of his alcohol problem from the original run of Excalibur<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 15-17.<\/strong> Gorgon and Magik talk to Isca.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Self-explanatory, really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGE 18.<\/strong> Data page: Jim Jaspers’ notebook, apparently with directions to his secretary. Again, most of this is straightforward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“My days charting the course of history at Number 10.”<\/strong> Jaspers was the British Prime Minister during the Jaspers’ Warp storyline in early 80s Captain Britain<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Redroot<\/strong> is apparently multilingual, increasing the parallels with Cypher (both are the interpreters for their respective islands).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGES 19-21.<\/strong> Storm and Death dance.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The other sword bearers of your host have tasted death many times, in many ways, but not you.”<\/strong> Broadly true, even without relying on Krakoan resurrections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Wolverine literally died and was revived by Persephone.<\/li>
  • Magik sort of died at the end of Inferno and died of the Legacy Virus afterwards.<\/li>
  • Brian (as Captain Britain) was killed by the Fury during the Jaspers Warp storyline, and revived by Merlyn.<\/li>
  • Betsy (as Psylocke) was killed off in X-Treme X-Men<\/em> #2, and returned a few years later.<\/li>
  • Gorgon was killed in Wolverine<\/em> vol 3 #31 and resurrected by the Hand.<\/li>
  • Cypher died in Fall of the Mutants.<\/li>
  • Apocalypse is an External, but among other examples he deliberately got himself killed in Excalibur<\/em> to power the gate to Avalon.<\/li>
  • Cable hasn’t exactly died, but did kill his own older self in Extermination<\/em>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Of course, you can’t swing a cat on Krakoa without hitting someone who’s come back from the dead, so this probably isn’t significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    PAGES 22-24.<\/strong> Wolverine kills Saturnyne.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Not sure that’ll stick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    PAGE 25.<\/strong> A quote from Wolverine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    PAGE 26.<\/strong> Trailer. The Krakoan reads “Next: Dinner.” Unusually, the next chapter (out next week) is also <\/em>an issue of Marauders<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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