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

\"\"<\/a>MARAUDERS #23<\/strong>
\n“Time for Tempo”<\/strong>
\nby Gerry Duggan, Ivan Fiorelli & Rain Beredo<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1:<\/strong> Kate, Bishop, Banshee and Tempo in action.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2.<\/strong> Opening quote from Cyclops.<\/p>\n

Tempo<\/strong>\u00a0was shown using her time-manipulation powers to make rapidly-maturing whisky for Sebastian Shaw in issue #10, and Port Genosha whisky has shown up a few times since then. In the real world, Tempo was one of the characters who was put up in a public vote to determine the final member of the new X-Men team, which is (in practice) what Cyclops is referring to when he says “She wasn’t elected to the X-Men this year” – presumably, in-universe, she did actually put herself forward for it in some way.<\/p>\n

PAGE 3.<\/strong> Recap and credits.<\/p>\n

PAGE 4.<\/strong>\u00a0Emma recaps the plot.<\/em><\/p>\n

“The biggest party this world’s ever seen…”<\/strong> Last month’s “Hellfire Gala” crossover.<\/p>\n

“We terraformed the first mutant world.”<\/strong>\u00a0Mars was terraformed in\u00a0Planet-Size X-Men<\/em> #1.<\/p>\n

“But then somehow had to go and murder the Scarlet Witch at my party.”<\/strong> Her body was discovered in\u00a0X-Factor<\/em> #10.<\/p>\n

“The Marauder<\/em> is a total loss after it was attacked.”<\/strong> In\u00a0Wolverine<\/em> #13-14. It was carrying a consignment of logic crystals and was destroyed as part of a scheme by Solum, the full details of which are still working themselves out over in\u00a0Wolverine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Aliens were the last ones aboard.”<\/strong> Well, Arakkii pirates (see\u00a0Wolverine<\/em> #14). I suppose they count as alien if they were born while Arakko was in Amenth, or simply on the basis that Arakko is now on Mars.<\/p>\n

“Our medicines are temporarily in short supply.”\u00a0<\/strong>The recap page ascribes this entirely to the destruction of the\u00a0Marauder<\/em>, which doesn’t really make sense – that one boat can’t be responsible for the whole global distribution network. On page 6, Sean refers to “production problems”, presumably the destruction of the Savage Land flower farm in\u00a0X-Corp<\/em> #1. Emma’s comments on page 18 about farms on Arakko reinforce that.<\/p>\n

PAGES 5-6.<\/strong>\u00a0Banshee calls for help.<\/em><\/p>\n

Banshee.<\/strong> We haven’t seen much of Sean Cassidy during the Krakoan era. He has a long history with Emma Frost from the 1990s series\u00a0Generation X<\/em>, where they were joint headmasters of the Massachusetts Academy.<\/p>\n

Banshee is fighting one of the new Reavers created by Homines Verendi, as seen in issues #18-19. At least in those issues, we were told that the Reavers were humans who had been injured fighting mutants and who had been reconstructed as cyborgs. Banshee apparently blasts one to pieces in this scene, which looks an awful lot like a violation of the no-killing-humans rule. Possibly the Reavers aren’t regarded as human for this purpose (which would fit with Krakoa’s paranoia about post-humanity), or maybe Banshee is figuring that as long as the core of this guy is intact, the rest can be rebuilt.<\/p>\n

“The Irish Constabulary”.<\/strong>\u00a0Ah, Americans writing about Ireland. The Irish police force is generally known as the Garda\u00ed (literally, the Guardians). It hasn’t been called the “Irish Constabulary” since independence in 1922.<\/p>\n

PAGES 7-10.<\/strong>\u00a0Banshee recaps the plot.<\/em><\/p>\n

Fair enough, I’ll buy this as a drawing of an industrial estate on the outskirts of an Irish town. Although page 17 has it inexplicably as a single warehouse in the middle of an otherwise residential area…<\/p>\n

“With the UK suddenly changing its tune on mutants…”<\/strong> In\u00a0Excalibur<\/em> #21. Let’s assume this warehouse literally is supplying\u00a0all<\/em> of Ireland, i.e. including the North.<\/p>\n

“You know seventeen people named…”<\/strong>\u00a0Um, Cassidy isn’t\u00a0<\/em>a particularly common name for Irish people. It doesn’t rate in the top 20 surnames in Ireland<\/a> (in fact, one page I found didn’t even include it in the top 100).\u00a0Sean\u00a0is<\/em> a consistently popular name in Ireland, though. So the joke would have worked if Banshee’s name was Sean Murphy, is what I’m saying.<\/p>\n

PAGES 11-12.<\/strong>\u00a0Emma and co arrive, and Jumbo Carnation is in action.<\/em><\/p>\n

I think this is the first time we’ve seen Jumbo Carnation in any sort of fight (unless you count the time he was mind-controlled and made to attack Kid Omega). He’s a non-combatant and it’s not really obvious why you’d bring him along to this, unless you were pretty desperate. That said, he\u00a0does<\/em> have a reasonably useful defensive power which makes him very hard to injured, so he’s unlikely to get hurt. And yes, his Teflon skin was established way back in the Grant Morrison storyline that created him.<\/p>\n

PAGES 13-18.<\/strong>\u00a0Tempo saves the day.<\/em><\/p>\n

Basically, Tempo slows down the bomb long enough for everyone to get to safety, and then Kate phases herself and Tempo so that the explosion does no harm.<\/p>\n

“My days in the Mutant Liberation Front…”<\/strong> Tempo was a member of Stryfe’s Mutant Liberation Front when she debuted, and for some years afterwards. Some efforts were made to rehab her during the 90s.<\/p>\n

PAGES 19-22.<\/strong>\u00a0The Stepford Cuckoos and Wilhelmina Kensington.<\/em><\/p>\n

This follows up on the Wilhelmina subplot from the last two issues, which hasn’t got any more subtle. The basic problem remains that Wilhelmina has always been a joke character; now she’s being written “seriously”, but only in the sense of giving her a traumatic history in lieu of a personality.<\/p>\n

Wilhelmina kills her father in the same way that she apparently killed her mother.<\/p>\n

“Stay out of the hole.” <\/strong>This would be the penalty for killing a normal human. The Cuckoos don’t do this, but they certainly enable Wilhelmina to do it herself.<\/p>\n

The Cuckoos’ response to a single comment from a passerby is wildly disproportionate to anything he’s said or done, and plainly an abuse of their power. Possibly\u00a0<\/em>the idea here is to undercut the previous scene.<\/p>\n

Emma’s dialogue refers to the Cuckoos being “all together” in London, but the art only shows three of them with Wilhelmina. A fourth appears right at the end to lead them to a gate.<\/p>\n

PAGE 23.<\/strong>\u00a0Wilhelmina quits Homines Verendi.<\/em><\/p>\n

Doesn’t she own actual cases?<\/p>\n

Wilhelmina interprets Kade’s motivation – at least currently – as jealousy at Krakoa’s success. That sounds reasonable.<\/p>\n

PAGE 24.<\/strong> Data page – an extract from Pyro’s romance novel. He was established as an author back in his earliest appearances, though he’s been written inconsistently since then. Of course, he’s written himself as the lead in this story. His publisher, “Timely Publishing”, was one of the forerunners of Marvel.<\/p>\n

PAGE 25.<\/strong> Trailers. The Krakoan reads NEXT: SPACE PIRATES.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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