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

\"\"<\/a>MARAUDERS vol 2 #3<\/strong>
\n“Extinction Agenda, part 3”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Steve Orlando<\/strong>
\nArtist: Elonora Carlini<\/strong>
\nColourist: Matt Milla<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Ariana Maher<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller<\/strong>
\nEditor: Jordan D White<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1:<\/strong> The Marauders, surrounded by Shi’ar soldiers.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2.<\/strong>\u00a0Delphos and Erik the Red discuss the plot.<\/em><\/p>\n

The light show that they’re watching is presumably their teammates’ ongoing battle with Cassandra Nova, which we’ll join on page 4.<\/p>\n

Issue #2 ended with the Marauders floating in space and Xandra wavering about what to do, while Delphos and Erik stood behind her. As we see later, Xandra gave orders for the Marauders to be brought aboard. It’s a little odd, then, that Delphos continues to say that Xandra is “cowed”, but it seems to be true as a generality.<\/p>\n

“Infinity’s End.”<\/strong> This seems to be an upcoming event, also referenced by Mephisto in\u00a0Avengers<\/em> #55.<\/p>\n

Cal’syee<\/strong> is Deathbird’s real name.<\/p>\n

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PAGE 3.\u00a0<\/strong>Deathbird fights the Brood.<\/em><\/p>\n

When we saw her briefly last issue, she was fighting some kind of elephant people; it seems she’s having to fight a series of villains.<\/p>\n

“An echo of our hollow-boned past.”<\/strong> Deathbird is supposed to be an evolutionary throwback to an earlier form of Shi’ar, hence the functioning wings. We’re told later on that this evolution wasn’t entirely natural, and that the Kin Crimson had a hand in it.<\/p>\n

PAGE 4.<\/strong>\u00a0Cassandra fights Betel and Pr!z.<\/em><\/p>\n

The attack on Cassandra by a Kin Crimson assassin isn’t something we saw on the page last time round, but evidently took place during the brief period when she seized control of the Shi’ar Empire while impersonating Professor X, in\u00a0New X-Men<\/em> vol 1 #122-126. Cassandra says that she learned from her assassin about the ten “shames” which the Kin Crimson suppress; however, we were told last issue that not all of this information is known even to the Kin Crimson themselves, so she may be exaggerating when she says she “know[s] it all”.<\/p>\n

PAGE 5.<\/strong> Recap and credits.<\/p>\n

PAGE 6.<\/strong> The Shi’ar take the Marauders aboard.<\/em><\/p>\n

“The beast”\u00a0<\/strong>is Cassandra; the Shi’ar have been calling her that throughout the arc.<\/p>\n

PAGES 6-9.<\/strong>\u00a0Cassandra kills Betel and Pr!z.<\/em><\/p>\n

Betel<\/strong> is a Hodinn, as established in the previous issue, which means he’s one of a race of “sentient stars” (whatever that means). That’s presumably why he collapses under his own weight without the benefit of a containment suit.<\/p>\n

The Wet Skin<\/strong> was mentioned but not explained last issue; apparently, it involves the Kin Crimson exploiting a “symbiote” to weaponise their own blood. The symbiote itself apparently gets lobotomised to stop it exercising any control over the end result. While it’s not stated outright, a “symbiote” in Marvel normally means the Klyntar from\u00a0Venom<\/em>. This particular symbiote was apparently a mutant; we’ve had occasional mutant aliens before (such as Warlock).<\/p>\n

PAGE 10.<\/strong>\u00a0The Marauders make plans.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Sprite’s Pirate Club.”<\/strong> Cassandra also called Kate “Sprite” in issue #1. It’s her original rookie codename.<\/p>\n

I really don’t understand what Aurora is doing here. Are we saying that her super speed powers allow her to think at superhuman speed? Because that feels like it should have come up before, and isn’t the point of Somnus’s dreamscape\u00a0already<\/em> that time is passing more slowly for the Marauders than it does in the outside world?<\/p>\n

PAGES 11-13.<\/strong> The Marauders break free.<\/em><\/p>\n

Note that Gladiator’s position is closer to “not now”, and while Bishop tries to talk with him, the rest of the team just keep on fighting.<\/p>\n

Lupak.<\/strong> That’s the race of the Imperial Guardsman called Fang – the Wolverine-like one.<\/p>\n

PAGES 14-16.<\/strong>\u00a0Cassandra confronts Gladiator.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cassandra is being very<\/em> tendentious in claiming that she didn’t kill the two Kin Crimson members. She caused their own bodies to kill them.<\/p>\n

PAGE 17.<\/strong>\u00a0Xandra gives the Marauders an audience.<\/em><\/p>\n

Delphos has the puzzle box – we saw it in the opening scene.<\/p>\n

PAGE 18.<\/strong> Data page – the opening entry in the Kin Crimson’s Chronicle, apparently a book bound in the flesh of one of their members. This is, effectively, the secret history of the Shi’ar. Sharraka doesn’t seem to have been mentioned before.<\/p>\n

The Xorrians.<\/strong> An obscure alien race from\u00a0Thor<\/em> #215, claimed to be the genetic origins of all humanoid races. The Kin Crimson seem to be suggesting that they actually helped races\u00a0become<\/em> humanoid.<\/p>\n

The Acanti<\/strong> are the “space whales” once used as enslaved starships by the Brood, from\u00a0Uncanny<\/em> #156 and subsequent issues.<\/p>\n

PAGES 19-20.<\/strong>\u00a0Xandra rejects Delphos.<\/em><\/p>\n

Last issue Xandra was minded to follow Delphos’s advice to avoid a war, but for whatever reason her attitude has changed. Perhaps she’s growing more sceptical of how far she can rely on anything Delphos is telling her. We established earlier in the issue that at least some of the rank and file Shi’ar soldiers are a bit sceptical about the Kin Crimson and see them as a bunch of fanatics, so it’s not hugely surprising that nobody else sides with Delphos. One gets the impression that Gladiator’s instinctive sympathy for the Kin Crimson has worn thin rather quickly as well on actually meeting them.<\/p>\n

PAGES 21.<\/strong>\u00a0The Marauders head for the Krag.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Krag<\/strong> is a Shi’ar prison which previously appeared in\u00a0Excalibur<\/em>\u00a0vol 1 #69-70. Those issues are not on Unlimited because they’re fill-ins and therefore a very low priority for collection. In the original story, Cerise is imprisoned in the Krag, and Rachel and Kylun break her out. It’s described as a “pan-dimensional prison” and depicted as a bit of a wasteland.<\/p>\n

PAGE 22.<\/strong> Data page on the Krag. It alludes to the “pan-dimensional prison” stuff, and suggests that the technology was stolen from “a crude pan-dimensional probe”, which feels like a subplot.<\/p>\n

The Fraternity of Raptors<\/strong>, bless ’em, are Darkhawk villains with a somewhat similar backstory as a hidden order of Shi’ar zealots. The Kin Crimson see them as idiot rivals. The name “Talon-A” is probably intended as a reference to the name “Talon-R” used by Robbie Rider (Nova’s younger brother) when he was a Raptor. However, “Talon-R” was the name that Robbie insisted upon using instead of “Talon Rider”, so it didn’t seem to be a historic Raptor thing.<\/p>\n

PAGES 23-24.\u00a0<\/strong>The guards kill Xandra.<\/em><\/p>\n

I mean, Cassandra sees this coming, so surely everyone else does and it’s a psychic illusion, right?<\/p>\n

PAGE 25.<\/strong> Trailers.<\/p>\n

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