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

\"\"<\/a>X-MEN vol 6 #6<\/strong>
\n“Whatever Happened to Captain Krakoa?”<\/strong>
\nby Gerry Duggan, Pepe Larraz & Marte Garcia\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong> A crowd of people photograph Captain Krakoa on their phones. We’ll find out during the issue who this guy is.<\/p>\n

PAGES 2-4.<\/strong>\u00a0Flash forward:\u00a0<\/em>Captain Krakoa debuts in New York.<\/em><\/p>\n

He’s doing very conventionally heroic things indeed, and generally trying to be a welcome member of the New York community – precisely in line with the X-Men’s general approach to New York since they set up here at the start of the current volume. Obviously, rescuing a cat from a tree is an absurdly stereotypical piece of heroism.<\/p>\n

“I’m kind of the greeter in these parts.”<\/strong> Particularly back in the 1980s, Spider-Man tended to show up at the start of a new series to cement it as being in the Marvel Universe.<\/p>\n

PAGE 5.<\/strong> Recap and credits. The layout is modified to show the title in larger print, for some reason. The previous five issues were titles as chapters of “Fearless”, but this one isn’t. The solicitations say this issue is part of the first trade paperback, but you have to wonder.<\/p>\n

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“Whatever Happened to Captain Krakoa?”<\/strong> The title references the Alan Moore \/ Curt Swan story “Whatever Happened to the Man of Steel” which was the last Superman story before the character was rebooted in\u00a0Crisis in Infinite Earths<\/em>.<\/p>\n

PAGE 6.<\/strong>\u00a0Flash forward: The Quiet Council insist on Captain Krakoa joining the X-Men.<\/em><\/p>\n

This takes place six days in the future, i.e. one day before the previous scene.<\/p>\n

Since two seats around the Council are still vacant, this is apparently before\u00a0Inferno<\/em>. It’s technically possible that Colossus and Destiny are simply absent from this meeting, but unlikely to be the intention.<\/p>\n

“[W]hen you broke away from the Council after the tournament in Otherworld…”<\/strong>\u00a0In\u00a0X-Men<\/em> vol 5 #16. (The “tournament in Otherworld” is\u00a0X of Swords<\/em>.) That story made a big deal about the Quiet Council not controlling who would serve on the X-Men, but as we’ll see, the Council aren’t actually trying to dictate membership; they’re telling Cyclops that he can’t appear in public as Cyclops because that will expose resurrection.<\/p>\n

“We must respect this sacred land…”<\/strong> This is indeed the third law of Krakoa, but quite what it has to do with the Council’s ruling here is, at best, dubious. They seem to be invoking it as a general authority for anything to do with national security.<\/p>\n

“Krakoa gives away whiskey and medicine, yet only half the nations of man recognise us. They’re simply not ready for what you’re proposing.”<\/strong> The “whiskey” is Port Genosha, seen in multiple issues of\u00a0Marauders<\/em>. Emma seems to be exaggerating – Krakoa also sells medicine, and I think this is the first we’ve seen of any mention of them giving away whiskey. And half the world not recognising Krakoa sounds a bit much considering it’s in the UN. The closest real-world analogy would be Palestine, which is recognised by 138 states – rather more than half – and only has observer status at the UN.<\/p>\n

By implication, Scott’s proposal was to reveal resurrection to the humans.<\/p>\n

PAGES 8-11.<\/strong>\u00a0Feilong arrives on Phobos.<\/em><\/p>\n

Feilong.<\/strong> Issue #1 established that Feilong had been transforming his body to enable him to live on Mars, before the mutants terraformed the place and made the exercise redundant. We saw him set off for Mars as an Orchis ally in issue #4. The narration in that issue says that the journey takes him 18 days.<\/p>\n

Feilong has a point that his annexation of Phobos – which the mutants weren’t using – is no less inherently valid than the mutants’ annexation of Mars. It might be gratuitously provocative, but that’s another matter.<\/p>\n

PAGE 12.<\/strong> Data page. Feilong claims Phobos “for all mankind”. That’s an Orchis logo in the top right. The message and its layout echoes a data page from\u00a0Planet-Size X-Men<\/em> #1 in which the mutants announced their colonisation of Mars – although that message was directed to alien worlds, not to Earth. (“Hold fast for a message from the regent of Sol.”)<\/p>\n

PAGES 13-18.<\/strong>\u00a0Vornak confronts Feilong.<\/em><\/p>\n

Vornak<\/strong> is a new character, but his general attitude – embrace of violence and general arrogance – is pretty much stock Arakko behaviour. The woman with him in the first two panels is Isca<\/strong>, a member of Arakko’s Great Ring ruling council.<\/p>\n

Sunfire takes it as read that Feilong is going to get himself killed, and clearly misjudges the situation very badly. Feilong, as a post-human, is a Very Serious Threat Indeed.<\/p>\n

PAGE 19.<\/strong>\u00a0Orchis colonise Phobos.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Dyson ring”.<\/strong>\u00a0The term “Dyson sphere” originally derives from a thought experiment by Freeman Dyson (1923-2020), who suggested that the Sun could be surrounded with a shell that could absorb all of its energy and make it all available for use by humanity. Despite literal interpretations in some sci-fi, Dyson clarified that he didn’t mean\u00a0literally<\/em> a shell around a star, but rather an arrangement of orbiting devices. The simplest form of that would be a Dyson ring. Still, the basic concept was all about stars and their energy, rather than dead moons, so… whatever.<\/p>\n

“[T]he corpse of Nightcrawler was discovered…”<\/strong> Nightcrawler died while preventing Phobos from crashing out of orbit in\u00a0Way of X<\/em> #5. The body seen here is in rather better condition than the one we saw in that issue, but that’s probably just artistic licence.<\/p>\n

“For the attention of all petals.”<\/strong> Orchis refers to its departments as “petals”.<\/p>\n

PAGE 20.<\/strong> Data page. Blurd Murdock advertises his services to interstellar neighbour disputes. This is a callback to similar adverts by Blurd in\u00a0New Mutants<\/em>.<\/p>\n

PAGES 21-22.<\/strong>\u00a0“Captain Krakoa” returns too the Treehouse.<\/em><\/p>\n

Presumably we’re now back in the flash-forward timeframe, though it’s all a bit confused. People are mourning the death of Cyclops, which they apparently understand to have happened publicly and very recently. Whatever they’re referring to here, it clearly isn’t his death in\u00a0House of X<\/em>. It could be something that happened between issues, or it could be some sort of illusion – see the next scene. At any rate, the “next issue” tag indicates we’ll find out more.<\/p>\n

This issue was originally scheduled to ship on 22 December 2021, hence the Treehouse being decorated for Christmas. Through the miracle of Marvel time it is now Christmas again, even though it’s also possible to demonstrate that less than six weeks have passed since\u00a0King in Black<\/em>, which also happened at Christmas. Marvel time is\u00a0wonderful<\/em>.<\/p>\n

PAGES 23-24.<\/strong>\u00a0Scott calls Ben Urich.<\/em><\/p>\n

Apparently Scott wants to leak some information to the press – but Urich’s memory of his previous conversations with Scott in issues #1 and #5 have been erased by someone.<\/p>\n

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

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