{"id":7722,"date":"2022-03-30T23:46:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T22:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7722"},"modified":"2022-03-31T21:41:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T20:41:26","slug":"immortal-x-men-1-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7722","title":{"rendered":"Immortal X-Men #1 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Unknown-31.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7723\" src=\"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Unknown-31.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><strong>IMMORTAL X-MEN #1<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;The Left Hand&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Writer: Kieron Gillen<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Artist: Lucas Werneck<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Colourist: David Curiel<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Letterer: Clayton Cowles<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Editor: Jordan D White<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>IMMORTAL X-MEN.<\/strong> Despite the name, this is a series about the Quiet Council &#8211; and not all of them are exactly X-Men. It&#8217;s the first series with this title, not to be confused with just-plain-<em>X-Men<\/em>, which is about the New York based superhero team.<\/p>\n<p>The series logo &#8211; an X with twelve dots around it &#8211; represents the twelve members of the Council in their groups of three.<\/p>\n<p><strong>COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong> It&#8217;s the Quiet Council doing Leonardo Da Vinci&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Last Supper<\/em>, albeit somewhat compressed to get it onto a double page spread. The original painting, specifically, is meant to show the moment after Jesus has announced that one of his apostles will betray him. It&#8217;s\u00a0<em>probably<\/em> not desperately important which apostle is represented by which Quiet Council member, particularly as most of the Apostles can only be identified by external sources rather than from the painting itself, but that&#8217;s no reason not to tell you anyway, right? More fundamentally, the original painting groups the apostles in threes, which mirrors the division of the Quiet Council &#8211; and that&#8217;s sort of reflected here. Working roughly from left to right along the table (and going by the rather more spaced out arrangement in the original painting):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Colossus<\/strong> is Bartholomew.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Storm<\/strong> is James the Less.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nightcrawler<\/strong> is Andrew.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mr Sinister<\/strong> is, of course, Judas Iscariot. He&#8217;s knocked over his wine glass; in the original painting, Judas has knocked over his salt cellar.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exodus<\/strong> is Saint Peter. Befitting his religious bent, he&#8217;s the only character to be drawn with a halo.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Death<\/strong> &#8211; who is absolutely not a member of the Quiet Council and whose attitude to this whole &#8220;resurrection&#8221; thing remains unclear &#8211; is in John&#8217;s position.<\/li>\n<li>The empty chair in the centre, with a Phoenix emblem on the back and Magneto&#8217;s helmet sitting in front, is where Jesus would be.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sebastian Shaw<\/strong> is Thomas, the doubting one.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Emma Frost<\/strong> is James the Greater.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kate Pryde<\/strong> is Philip.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professor X<\/strong> is Matthew.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mystique<\/strong> is Jude.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Destiny<\/strong> is Simon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Note that Mystique is separated from the other two &#8220;villain&#8221; members and standing with Xavier and Destiny, her place among them taken by death.<\/p>\n<p>The masks of Jean Grey and Cyclops are lying on the ground in front of the table. Scott&#8217;s glasses are also sitting on the table. I&#8217;m not sure who the insect things belong to.<\/p>\n<p>In the background is a portal through which we can see Mars, with some sort of plume of energy coming off it, presumably connected with Arakko. The other figures in the background are members of the Great Ring, the Arakki equivalent of the Quiet Council. Specifically, the hooded figure on the left is\u00a0<strong>Lactuca<\/strong>, the big purple figure is\u00a0<strong>Sobunar<\/strong>, and the insectoid thing on the right is\u00a0<strong>Xilo<\/strong>. Neither they nor Lockheed have any equivalent in the original\u00a0<em>Last Supper<\/em>, which is a tremendous pity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGES 2-7.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>The future Mr Sinister and Destiny meet in Paris in 1919.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This scene alludes to the sequence of Moira MacTaggert approaching Charles Xavier and revealing her past lives to him, which first appeared in\u00a0<em>House of X<\/em> #2 and has been referenced multiple times since.<\/p>\n<p><b>Mr Sinister<\/b>, at this point in continuity, is already a super powered mad scientist type. He&#8217;s already met Logan by this point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Irene Adler<\/strong>, the future Destiny, is already working with Raven Darkholme (Mystique) at this point. A flashback in\u00a0<em>X-Treme X-Men<\/em> vol 1 #1 shows them working together back in the Victorian era. Adler is named after a character from the Sherlock Holmes story &#8220;A Scandal in Bohemia&#8221;, published in 1891, which gives you some idea of how old Chris Claremont thought she was.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nimrod.<\/strong> Nimrod is the ninth of Edward Elgar&#8217;s &#8220;Enigma Variations&#8221;. If it&#8217;s twenty years to the day since it was first performed, then it&#8217;s 19 June 1919. Presumably, Nimrod disturbs Irene because it brings to mind a prophecy of the robotic killer of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>What Irene tells Essex is presumably some sort of revelation about the future, but the very fact that she doesn&#8217;t anticipate his reaction is intriguing in itself. As she explains later, she doesn&#8217;t predict the future with 100% accuracy. That&#8217;s essentially because she sees\u00a0<em>all<\/em> the possible timelines; she can tell which events are most likely but in some timelines they still won&#8217;t happen. Even so, in the very short term her predictions are usually highly accurate, and completely unexpected things should be very rare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGE 8.<\/strong> Recap and credits. The tag line now reads &#8220;Hated. Feared. Forever&#8221;, which of course alludes to the old &#8220;feared and hated by a world they have sworn to protect&#8221; tagline from the early Claremont era. The small print now reads &#8220;mutants of the world&#8221;. In the first year of the Hickman run, it read &#8220;mutants of the world unite&#8221; &#8211; the &#8220;unite&#8221; is missing here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGES 9-10.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Mr Sinister prepares for a meeting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sinister has apparently been running multiple iterations of something &#8211; 25 of them by now &#8211; in order to learn about the future and leave messages for himself. We&#8217;ll find out at the end of the issue what he seems to be doing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGES 11-14.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Magneto announces his resignation from the Quiet Council.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;They and Moira had a plan for salvation of mutantkind&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong> This is the main arc of the Hickman run. Xavier and Magneto founded Krakoa as part of a scheme with Moira MacTaggert, whose knowledge from her nine past lives led her to understand that mutants were always eventually wiped out, and to propose uniting all mutants in their own island nation. Moira was apparently planning to gently sideline the mutants while pursuing the real goal of posthumanity, and got driven out of Krakoa in\u00a0<em>Inferno<\/em>, which is where the rest of the Quiet Council found out what was happening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;When she [Emma] discovered the true extent of Erik and the Professor&#8217;s schemes&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong> Again, <em>Inferno<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;She&#8217;s focused entirely on the Council now.&#8221;<\/strong> Emma quit her day-to-day role in Hellfire Trading in\u00a0<em>Marauders<\/em> #27, handing it over to the Stepford Cuckoos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;[E]ntirely under Frost&#8217;s thumb now&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong> A pretty fair description of where Shaw ends up at the end of\u00a0<em>Marauders<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ariel<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Shadowcat<\/strong> are both former codenames of Kate Pryde. Nitpick: &#8220;n\u00e9e&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean &#8220;formerly known as&#8221;, it means &#8220;born&#8221; (in the sense of &#8220;originally known as&#8221;). As Sinister says, Kate&#8217;s main title is\u00a0<em>Marauders<\/em>, where she&#8217;s still running the team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I electively became a mutant&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong> Sinister&#8217;s current body (bodies?) incorporate mutant DNA, apparently gathered somewhere along the line from the original Thunderbird. He&#8217;s unquestionably a mutant in the sense that the body he has created for himself is a mutant body. Of course, he&#8217;s only tolerated by <em>anyone\u00a0<\/em>because of his contribution to resurrection, but that would be the case however he had become a mutant.\u00a0Exodus, as a purist who attaches religious significance to mutantkind, naturally takes great offence at this idea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Sinister Secret.&#8221;<\/strong> Various &#8220;Sinister Secrets&#8221; data pages have appeared throughout the Krakoan era, basically teasing future events in the form of gossip column blind items.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;As monarch of Mars&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong> Storm became the monarch of Mars &#8211; well, Arakko, which is the only inhabited bit of Mars &#8211; in\u00a0<em>S.W.O.R.D.\u00a0<\/em>after the place was colonised during &#8220;Hellfire Gala.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Colossus has been compromised by some naughty Russians.&#8221;<\/strong> This is a storyline from\u00a0<em>X-Force<\/em>. The Russian villain in question is Colossus&#8217; brother Mikhail Rasputin, working through his reluctant agent Chronicler &#8211; who seems to be more a reality-warper than a conventional mind-controller. Chronicler seems to steer people into acting in a particular direction, as long as he can rationalise it to himself as making narrative sense. This might explain why three telepaths on the Quiet Council (Professor X, Emma Frost and Exodus) have all failed to spot it. The fact that Sinister is aware of this is new, and begs the question of how he found out unless he&#8217;s got a contact with the Russians. (Or, of course, he picks it up in the way explained in the final scene.) For what it&#8217;s worth, Sinister voted against allowing Colossus onto the Council in\u00a0<em>Inferno<\/em> #2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nightcrawler<\/strong>&#8216;s activities refer to the recent\u00a0<em>Way of X\u00a0<\/em>book and the upcoming <i>Legion of X<\/i>. Sinister&#8217;s got a point about Nightcrawler&#8217;s contribution to the Council, which has mainly been to show up, look confused, make the occasional speech about morality, and vote on the spur of the moment about whatever happens to be put in front of him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mystique &amp; Destiny.<\/strong> Erik and Xavier&#8217;s manipulation of Mystique, and the need to stop Destiny (as a precognitive) from existing on Krakoa, was a major storylline of the Hickman run. Mystique engineered Destiny&#8217;s resurrection anyway in\u00a0<em>Inferno<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;He abandons the cause once more.&#8221;<\/strong> Exodus used to be a fanatic worshipper of Magneto but has evidently become rather disillusioned with him over the years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGE 15.<\/strong> Data page. This is basically recap for any newcomers &#8211; all of this is familiar to existing readers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Item 1 is just a basic premise of the Hickman run.<\/li>\n<li>Ditto item 2.<\/li>\n<li>Item 3 is the plot of\u00a0<em>Inferno<\/em> #1-2.<\/li>\n<li>Item 4 is the plot of\u00a0<em>Inferno<\/em> #3-4 (and Moira going on the run is the plot of\u00a0<em>X Deaths of Wolverine<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li>Item 5 is another basic premise of the Hickman run. The &#8220;AI consciousness from the future&#8221; is Omega Sentinel, possessing the body of her past self, as explained in\u00a0<em>Inferno<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Item 6 is a storyline from Gerry Duggan&#8217;s\u00a0<em>X-Men<\/em>. The reporter is Ben Urich; the mindwipe was actually done by Synch acting alone.<\/li>\n<li>Item 7 is a storyline from\u00a0<em>SWORD<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Item 8 is another basic premise of the Hickman run.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PAGE 16.<\/strong> <em>Various mutants pitch to be on the Quiet Council.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Angel\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Penance<\/strong> are the co-CXOs of X-Corp, which had a very short lived series last year. Their behaviour here is pretty much in line with their depiction there.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gorgon<\/strong> has barely been seen since he died in Otherworld during &#8220;X of Swords&#8221; and got resurrected with a new personality. When we saw him in <em>Way of X<\/em>, he appeared to be childlike and naive.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vulcan<\/strong> did indeed rule the Shi&#8217;ar Empire for a time, though his behaviour here is quite different from how he&#8217;s appeared in other Hickman stories, where he&#8217;s generally been something of a psychologically troubled mess.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Abigail Brand<\/strong> is a main character in\u00a0<em>SWORD<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Beast<\/strong> is a regular character in\u00a0<em>X-Force<\/em>, where he&#8217;s generally being written as wildly amoral.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PAGE 17.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>The Quiet Council discuss the contenders.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Hank used to be fun. Remember that?&#8221;<\/strong> This gets mentioned occasionally in\u00a0<em>X-Force<\/em> as well, but by suggesting that you have to go back to before he dated Abigail Brand, Kate really is going back a way &#8211; we&#8217;re going back to the Joss Whedon run here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legion<\/strong> is a close ally of Nightcrawler over in\u00a0<em>Way of X<\/em>. It&#8217;s consistent with that book both for Nightcrawler to be pushing him, and Xavier to be rejecting him as alarmingly unstable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Namor<\/strong> was tentatively invited to take a vacant seat on the Quiet Council in Hickman&#8217;s\u00a0<em>X-Men<\/em> #21.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Arakkii<\/strong> are a violent warrior race. The idea that you have to fight for a seat on their Council was established in\u00a0<em>S.W.O.R.D.\u00a0<\/em>#8.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cypher<\/strong> always hangs around in the background at Quiet Council meetings acting as translator for Krakoa itself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGES 18-19.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Exodus asks Hope to stand for the Quiet Council.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hope Summers.<\/strong> Exodus regards Hope as a messiah figure because she was the first new mutant to be born after M-Day (when almost all mutants lost their powers) and, after reaching maturity through time travel, was able to bring about the restoration of mutantkind generally. Exodus compares her directly to Jesus here, calling him &#8220;the Nazarene Mutant&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Waiting Room<\/strong> was introduced in\u00a0<em>X-Men: Trial of Magneto<\/em> #5 and it&#8217;s still not precisely clear what it actually\u00a0<em>is<\/em>. It seems to be some kind of limbo in which as-yet-unresurrected mutants can bide their time, including those who died many years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGES 20-21.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Selene Gallio pitches to join the Quiet Council.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Selene<\/strong>, formerly Black Queen of the Hellfire Club, was last seen in the cast of\u00a0<em>X-Corp<\/em>. She&#8217;s not literally a vampire; she has energy leeching powers, though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;You lost Apocalypse.&#8221;<\/strong> Apocalypse left the Quiet Council after the &#8220;X of Swords&#8221; crossover, and Selene has a fair point that he&#8217;s not really been replaced by anyone of equivalent stature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Krakoa has borders with mystical realms.&#8221;<\/strong> She means Otherworld. This, and Apocalypse&#8217;s interest in the topic, was the basic concept of the recently-completed\u00a0<em>Excalibur<\/em> run.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The giant magical beasts the Ex-Pretender threw at us&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0The &#8220;Ex-Pretender&#8221; is the Scarlet Witch, formerly a hate figure due to her role in M-Day, but redeemed after she created the Waiting Room in\u00a0<em>X-Men: Trial of Magneto<\/em>. The &#8220;giant magical beasts&#8221; also come from that series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;How long until all of Genosha is brought back?&#8221;<\/strong> The millions of mutants living on Genosha were killed in\u00a0<em>New X-Men<\/em> vol 1 #115.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I brought back Genosha in a day.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><em>X-Force<\/em> vol 3 #22. This was part of the &#8220;X-Necrosha&#8221; crossover in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Externals\u00a0<\/strong>were a small number of mutants who were already immortal even before Krakoa; Selene was one, Apocalypse is another.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGES 22-23.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Hope pitches for membership.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;There&#8217;s been enough stuff going on which the Five aren&#8217;t sure about.&#8221;<\/strong> The Five&#8217;s main plot role in the Krakoan era has been to hang around in the background resurrecting people. But we\u00a0<em>have<\/em> seen them increasingly expressing disquiet about things like the policy on resurrecting clones, ethically dodgy requests from the Beast to modify people on resurrection, and things of that sort. Krakoan society is premised on the Five continuing to resurrect people and it was inevitable that at some point they would demand a voice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The External Gate that reached Arakko&#8230; Apocalypse made it from the bones of my fellow unaging Externals.&#8221;<\/strong> Correct. This was in\u00a0<em>Excalibur<\/em> vol 4 #12. Presumably, the threat is that it will be difficult to reach Arakko without the gate &#8211; but since the mutants are already on Mars, surely they can just plant another gate?<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I love that cape!&#8221;<\/strong> Sinister&#8217;s obsession with his cape was a running joke in\u00a0<em>Hellions<\/em>, his previous book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGES 24-26.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>The Council vote.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sinister expects Destiny to vote for Hope, presumably based on the messages he got earlier. When she doesn&#8217;t, he assumes that his own knowledge of how she was going to vote might have changed the timeline. Mind you, if Sinister knows that Hope&#8217;s membership is likely to lead to disasters, why does he expect Destiny to vote for it? Does he think that she can&#8217;t see it, or that she&#8217;d welcome that too &#8211; or has he just not thought through the paradoxes?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGE 27.<\/strong> Data page. This is one of the Red Diamond &#8220;Sinister Secrets&#8221; pages, though it goes slightly off the rails towards the end. Most of these are inscrutable at this point. Number 4 references the upcoming annual\u00a0<strong>Hellfire Gala<\/strong> (apparently we&#8217;re getting one of these every year in publication terms, and don&#8217;t think too closely about how that works in Marvel time). Number 5 is trailing the upcoming &#8220;Judgment Day&#8221; crossover with the Avengers and the Eternals. In number 10, <strong>the Pit<\/strong> is the suspended-animation underground prison which is supposed to be where criminals go; it&#8217;s currently appearing in\u00a0the\u00a0<em>Sabretooth<\/em> miniseries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGES 28-31.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Selene has a tantrum.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pretty straightforward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGES 32-35.<\/strong> <em>Sinister&#8217;s plan revealed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Basically, Sinister has cloned himself some Moiras, complete with their power to travel back in time to the moment of creation when they die. His big idea is to harness this idea for himself, so he lives through time over and over, and when he decides it&#8217;s time to pull the plug and start afresh, he records data on a clone&#8217;s brain and then shoots the clone dead.\u00a0Thus, Sinister obtains access to time travel and can send messages back in time to himself, allowing him to try this stunt over and over until he gets it right. Apparently, he&#8217;s already on life 26. There\u00a0<em>is<\/em> apparently a limit to how many times he can do this, since he&#8217;s already worrying about the condition of the clones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of chat about mutant circuits.&#8221;<\/strong> Mutants combining their powers in a more-than-the-sum-of-the-parts kind of way. <em>New Mutants<\/em>\u00a0brings this up a lot, but\u00a0<em>SWORD<\/em> has used it too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I have worked on the idea of Chimera.&#8221;<\/strong> Sinister was working on this in\u00a0<em>Hellions<\/em> &#8211; the idea of hybridising mutant powers. It alludes to a plot point from\u00a0<em>Powers of X<\/em> where, at some point in the future, he created artificial mutants in this way. (In Moira&#8217;s previous lives, anyway.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGE 36.<\/strong> Data page. A seating plan of the Quiet Council.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGE 37.<\/strong> A map of Krakoa. We&#8217;ve seen this before but it&#8217;s being brought up to date here. This is more recap stuff for new readers.<\/p>\n<p>The locations on the map:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The House of X is Professor X&#8217;s home.<\/li>\n<li>The House of M is Magneto&#8217;s home.<\/li>\n<li>Arbor Magna is where resurrection takes place.<\/li>\n<li>The Arena is used for gladiatorial combat in which depowered mutants can get themselves ritually killed in order to qualify for resurrection.<\/li>\n<li>The Akademos Habitat is where the school-age teams tend to live.<\/li>\n<li>The Oracle is Mystique and Destiny&#8217;s home.<\/li>\n<li>The Grove is the Quiet Council chamber.<\/li>\n<li>The Cradle (or at least, one of the Cradles) is where the Cerebro unit is stored.<\/li>\n<li>The Reservoir seems to be just a generic residential area, in the handful of times we&#8217;ve seen it.<\/li>\n<li>The Wild Hunt is an area used for training in\u00a0<em>New Mutants<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The Carousel is an area used for public celebration.<\/li>\n<li>Bar Sinister is Mr Sinister&#8217;s home.<\/li>\n<li>Hellfire Bay is where the Hellfire vessels dock.<\/li>\n<li>The Red Keep is Kate&#8217;s home.<\/li>\n<li>Blackstone is Shaw&#8217;s home (or was, when he was running Hellfire).<\/li>\n<li>The White Palace is Emma&#8217;s home (with the same caveat).<\/li>\n<li>The External Gate came up in the story.<\/li>\n<li>Nanny&#8217;s Cove is presumably where Nanny lived in\u00a0<em>Hellions<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The Boneyard is X-Factor&#8217;s base.<\/li>\n<li>The Bower is the nursery.<\/li>\n<li>The Fort and the Crow&#8217;s Nest have never been explained before.<\/li>\n<li>The Voltus Glade is the circle where everyone was gathering with their swords in the &#8220;X of Swords&#8221; crossover.<\/li>\n<li>The Green Lagoon is seemingly the only bar on the island. Small print on the map gives the current population of Krakoa as 204,372, which is roughly equivalent to Aberdeen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Krakoan outposts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Altar is a kind of psychic pocket dimension run by Legion in <em>Way of X<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Atlantic Krakoa is a related island which we never really seem to see.<\/li>\n<li>Arakko is the long-separated ancient twin of Krakoa, returned to our universe in &#8220;X of Swords&#8221; and now based on Mars.<\/li>\n<li>The Graymalkin Habitat is the former X-Men Mansion.<\/li>\n<li>Island M is Magneto&#8217;s old island base.<\/li>\n<li>Mykines is the location for the Hellfire Gala.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;Summer Home&#8221; should read Summer House; it&#8217;s the Summers family home on the Moon.<\/li>\n<li>The Treehouse is the X-Men&#8217;s base in New York.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list of countries which don&#8217;t recognise Krakoan sovereignty:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Azania is a country from late 1980s\u00a0<em>Black Panther<\/em>\u00a0which obviously represented apartheid-era South Africa.<\/li>\n<li>Brazil has shown up in\u00a0<em>New Mutants<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Canaan is another\u00a0<em>Black Panther<\/em> microstate. Moses Magnum conquered it once.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ve been given any particular reasons for Honduras or Iran.<\/li>\n<li>Latveria is the home of Dr Doom, who crossed paths with the mutants in\u00a0<em>X-Men \/ Fantastic Four<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Madripoor, now run by the anti-mutant Homines Verendi government, has appeared extensively in\u00a0<em>Marauders<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>North Korea speaks for itself.<\/li>\n<li>Russia has featured extensively in\u00a0<em>Wolverine\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>X-Force<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Santo Marco is the South American country that looks like Switzerland that Magneto conquered back in the Silver Age. They haven&#8217;t forgotten.<\/li>\n<li>Terra Verde has featured extensively in\u00a0<em>X-Force<\/em>, though I thought the Hellfire Gala ended by striking a deal with the country, to keep quiet Beast&#8217;s interference.<\/li>\n<li>The United Kingdom withdrew recognition as part of an\u00a0<em>Excalibur<\/em> storyline involving Coven Akkaba, in what seems to be a rather clumsy Brexit allegory.<\/li>\n<li>Not sure we&#8217;ve had any particular reason for Venezuela.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The three laws of Krakoa were adopted back in\u00a0<em>House of X<\/em> #6, but note that they&#8217;re described here as the\u00a0<em>first<\/em> laws. Maybe somebody&#8217;s finally figured out that the legal system needs to be a bit more developed than this if it isn&#8217;t going to be completely arbitrary&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGE 38.<\/strong> This is a reprint of a data page about Orchis that we&#8217;ve see in various forms before (with the addition of some material about where Orchis got their membership from; that comes from\u00a0<em>House of X<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGE<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>39.<\/strong> Trailers. Look, they&#8217;re in plain English now! (The Krkaoan in the top left just reads &#8220;NEXT&#8221;.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition. IMMORTAL X-MEN #1 &#8220;The Left Hand&#8221; Writer: Kieron Gillen Artist: Lucas Werneck Colourist: David Curiel Letterer: Clayton Cowles Editor: Jordan D White IMMORTAL X-MEN. 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