{"id":7270,"date":"2021-10-31T20:40:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T20:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7270"},"modified":"2021-10-31T20:40:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T20:40:02","slug":"marauders-25-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7270","title":{"rendered":"Marauders #25 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>MARAUDERS #25<\/strong>
\n“Night of the Comet”<\/strong>
\nby Gerry Duggan, Phil Noto & Cory Petit<\/strong><\/p>\n

This will be very short. They show off their powers and then there’s a fight. It’s not an issue that cries out for annotation.<\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1<\/strong>. Emma Frost with knuckledusters. Which seems a bit unnecessary when you can turn to diamond, but okay. The “Hell Fire” on the knuckledusters echoes Kate’s “Kill Shaw” tattoos.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2.<\/strong>\u00a0Opening quote. I think it’s original, but it presumably comes from the period when Ogun was training \/ brainwashing Kitty as a ninja in\u00a0the\u00a0Kitty Pryde & Wolverine<\/em> miniseries.<\/p>\n

PAGE<\/strong> 3.<\/strong> Recap and credits. “Night of the Comet” was a cult sci-fi\/horror film from 1984, with female leads.<\/p>\n

PAGES 4-12.<\/strong>\u00a0The Marauders combine powers to save themselves.<\/em><\/p>\n

Iceman isn’t bothered by cold or lack of oxygen, since he doesn’t breathe when his body is turned to ice, but traditionally he does need a source of water with which to make ice. Let’s assume that’s changed, or at least that he can draw on a much wider range of materials. After all, he seems to transform his own body.<\/p>\n

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The rest of this is a fairly straightforward “they combine their powers to save the day” scene, though it’s worth noting that Sebastian Shaw is played here as a team member like any other. Of course, the immediate problem is to stop them all getting killed, and he’s got every reason to join forces with them for that purpose – but still, the story treats him part of the group who are working together.<\/p>\n

PAGES 13-22.<\/strong>\u00a0Kate boards the Mercury and defeats Rixho.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Kate Pryde had been taking deep breaths and doing the impossible since she first met the White Queen.”<\/strong> Kate “first met the White Queen” in her debut appearance. The bit about “taking deep breaths” is because she can’t breathe while phased into an object – so holding her breath has always been important for her.<\/p>\n

Despite his relatively sympathetic portrayal in the previous scene, the art on page 13 really foregrounds those “Kill Shaw” tattoos.<\/p>\n

Rixho is still enjoying the Krakoan whisky that he picked up last issue.<\/p>\n

“Plot a course for Oblitus…”<\/strong> Oblitus is a renegade space station from Duggan’s 2014 run on\u00a0Nova<\/em>. It’s constructed from the ruins of other space stations, and basically a criminal hideaway.<\/p>\n

“I’m starting a war college…”<\/strong> Bishop apparently isn’t joking about this, since this idea resurfaces on the data page at the end of the issue.<\/p>\n

PAGE 23.<\/strong>\u00a0Rixlo is dumped on Arakko.<\/em><\/p>\n

This doesn’t\u00a0seem<\/em> like a terribly good idea, considering he tried to murder them all, but evidently Emma thinks she’s made her point. Also, do aliens count for the law against murder?<\/p>\n

PAGE 24.<\/strong> Data page. A memo from Bishop to the other War Captains essentially proposing that people need to stop hanging around in a permanent beach party and brace themselves for a bit of national service. Bishop was appointed as Captain Commander in\u00a0Inferno<\/em> #1, but it’s not clear whether this comes before or after.<\/p>\n

The Quarry, which he mentions in passing, is a gladiatorial sparring arena run by the Silver Samurai. It originated in Duggan’s\u00a0Cable<\/em> run.<\/p>\n

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

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