{"id":7891,"date":"2022-05-21T21:34:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T20:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7891"},"modified":"2022-05-21T21:34:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T20:34:51","slug":"x-force-28-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7891","title":{"rendered":"X-Force #28 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>X-FORCE vol 6 #28<\/strong>
\n“Cerebrax”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Benjamin Percy<\/strong>
\nArtist: Robert Gill<\/strong>
\nColourist: Guru-eFX<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Joe Caramagna<\/strong>
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1:<\/strong> X-Force, with Kid Omega in his Juggernaut form (which we’ll come to in the story). It’s marked “after Rob”; I assume the intended homage is to Rob Liefeld’s cover for\u00a0X-Force<\/em> vol 1 #3.<\/p>\n

PAGES 2-4.<\/strong>\u00a0Cerebrax decides to eat some more mutants.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is very much\u00a0X-Force<\/em> in grindhouse mode, which means it doesn’t call for a huge amount of annotation. Which is very welcome news in a week with five X-books.<\/p>\n

What we seem to be establishing here is that Cerebrax (as it calls itself later) is instinctively consuming mutants as a version of its remit to catalogue them, and having absorbed Forge, it picks up his building instincts too. Presumably that means that Cerebrax’s personality will continue to develop as it eats more people.<\/p>\n

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“Cerebro comes to life and tries to collect all the mutants” has been done before, but that was back in the late 90s (in the “Hunt for Xavier” arc), so the statute of limitations on this idea has long since expired. It’s also worth flagging that over in the sister book\u00a0Wolverine<\/em>, also written by Percy, Wolverine is fighting Danger, the robot created when the Danger Room came to life. There’s no immediate plot connection between these two stories (yet, anyway) but it surely can’t be coincidence that Percy is doing two variations on this theme back to back.<\/p>\n

The horde of mutants in the splash page are all major names, but for completeness:<\/p>\n