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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 #13<\/strong>
\n“Resurrection Blues”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Gerry Duggan<\/strong>
\nArtist: C F Villa<\/strong>
\nColourist: Matt Milla<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Clayton Cowles<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller with Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Jordan D White<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1:\u00a0<\/strong>Cyclops and Jean in action alongside Ikaris and Sersi from\u00a0Eternals<\/em>. This is an A.X.E.:<\/em>\u00a0Judgment Day<\/em> tie-in.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2.<\/strong> Opening quote: Jean Grey. It’s obviously meant to be ironic in the light of the plot of\u00a0Judgment Day<\/em>, in which an artificially-revived Celestial judges the whole planet.<\/p>\n

PAGE 3.<\/strong>\u00a0The X-Men in battle against the Hex.<\/em><\/p>\n

Or rather, all of them but Forge, who we’ll get to on the next page. But the rest of the newly-elected team from\u00a0X-Men: Hellfire Gala<\/em> are here.<\/p>\n

This is the Hex’s attack on Krakoa from\u00a0A.X.E.: Judgment Day<\/em> #2. The one seen here is Thieaka the Harpsicus. The narrator gives us the very basic version of the Eternals’ motivation; the fuller version is that Druig sees this as a way to cement his authority as Prime Eternal, but that’s not really relevant to this issue.<\/p>\n

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Magik raises for the first time the prospect that Krakoa itself might be capable of resurrection, which I suppose depends on whether you class it as a mutant and on how far resurrection works beyond true mutants. There’s been some suggestion that it would work on individual humans, so why not try it with Krakoa, I guess?<\/p>\n

PAGES 4-5.<\/strong>\u00a0Forge makes his contribution.<\/em><\/p>\n

I assume<\/em> this piece of technology is meant to be based on plantlife, like most Krakoan things, but it really does look more like meat.<\/p>\n

PAGES 6-7.<\/strong>\u00a0Jean Grey contacts Ikaris.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ikaris<\/strong> is the Eternal closest to a conventional Superman type, though in a much more distant way. He was basically the star of the early Kirby stories. In\u00a0Eternals<\/em>, he and a group of other Eternals split from the main society after learning that every time they were resurrected, a human was killed to provide the life force. That’s why he insists that no Eternals can die in the battle, but he doesn’t explain that to Jean.<\/p>\n

This conversation with Jean is new. Ikaris does want to get involved in this fight, but he and his group are currently occupied with their own side quest over in A.X.E.: Death to the Mutants<\/em> #1 (which I’m not treating as an X-book, since it’s basically\u00a0Eternals <\/em>under an assumed name).<\/p>\n

The information he provides on the Hex is basically the same limited material we’ve heard about them before.<\/p>\n

PAGE 8.<\/strong> Recap and credits.<\/p>\n

PAGES 9-11.<\/strong>\u00a0More fighting with the Hex.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u00a0assume<\/em> this red thing is meant to be Syne, but frankly I’m just going by the colouring on that, since otherwise it bears no resemblance to any of the Hex as shown in other books.<\/p>\n

PAGE 12.<\/strong>\u00a0Ikaris clears the way for the X-Men to enter Uranos’ armory.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is page 17 of\u00a0Death to the Mutants<\/em> #1, where Ikaris also has the rest of the\u00a0Eternals<\/em> cast with him.<\/p>\n

PAGE 13-16.<\/strong>\u00a0The X-Men attack the Armory.<\/em><\/p>\n

Their arrival is also shown on page 18 of\u00a0Death to the Mutants<\/em> #1, where Druig panics about the Hex losing their power supply and decides that the Forgotten must be to blame for giving the mutants’ access.<\/p>\n

Synch<\/strong> is apparently not an omega mutant, although if we’re still going by the nebulous “no upper limit” definition, then I’m not sure why not. If he can mimic an omega mutant’s powers, why isn’t he an omega mutant by extension…? Or is there an upper limit to how far he can copy them?<\/p>\n

I’m not entirely sure why being synched to Iceman helps him here – I get that when Iceman’s in ice form, he can shatter and reform, but Synch\u00a0isn’t<\/em> in ice form. Is the idea that even if Iceman was maimed in human form then he could still turn to ice and just rebuild his body? Because Synch doesn’t exactly do that either. Basically, if Synch is synching with Iceman’s powers then shouldn’t he be, er, ice?<\/p>\n

Nimrod<\/strong> from Orchis gets a somewhat random namecheck here, but we haven’t seen him in a while, so there’s no harm in reminding us about him.<\/p>\n

PAGE<\/strong>\u00a017.\u00a0<\/strong>Scott and Jean repel another member of the Hex.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is Phebe Reginax.<\/p>\n

PAGES 18-20.<\/strong>\u00a0The X-Men complete their attack on the Armory.<\/em><\/p>\n

“It’s just like taking orders from Captain America.”<\/strong> Firestar used to be in the Avengers. Incidentally, if you’re nitpicking, Firestar’s powers aren’t meant to be flames, but lovely, easy-to-animate microwaves.<\/p>\n

PAGES 21-23.<\/strong>\u00a0The X-Men return to Krakoa.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Hex are leaving because the newly revived Celestial told them to stand down, in\u00a0Judgment Day<\/em> #2.<\/p>\n

The Celestial’s speech comes from the end of that issue, although the X-Men’s reaction to it is original. Also, the closing line “X-Men, your adjudication has begun” is new – presumably, everyone hears the Celestial differently at that point.<\/p>\n

PAGE 24.<\/strong> Data page – a letter to Emma Frost from Firestar’s father.<\/p>\n

Bart Jones<\/strong>\u00a0is a long-established minor character. In the\u00a0Firestar <\/em>miniseries\u00a0(1985-6), he’s presented as a hard working single father who’s initially afraid of Angelica’s mutant powers, and who accepts Emma’s offer to train her partly out of panic, but mainly in a good faith attempt to get her the support he doesn’t know how to provide; the series ends with him and Angelica reunited and embracing. He’s made very scattered appearances since then, primarily in New Warriors<\/em>. Basically, he’s\u00a0just a nice, supportive middle-aged dad who’s proud of his superhero daughter.<\/p>\n

He\u00a0evidently knows how badly Emma treated Angelica during the\u00a0Firestar<\/em> miniseries and is deeply sceptical of Emma’s motives for getting her into the X-Men now. It was indeed Emma who nominated Firestar for the X-Men in\u00a0X-Men: Hellfire Gala<\/em>, claiming that “Most of you never had the chance to know her and that is my fault because I pushed her away when she was young.” Since Firestar was basically appointed to the team by acclaim before she actually had a chance to say whether she wanted to join or not, there’s some truth in Bart’s description of it as a drafting.<\/p>\n

Basically, Bart has always been very supportive of Firestar’s superhero career – he doesn’t like her being in the X-Men because he sees her falling back under Emma’s sphere of influence, and that’s perfectly reasonable, really.<\/p>\n

PAGE 25.<\/strong>\u00a0Trailers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition. X-MEN vol 6 #13 “Resurrection Blues” Writer: Gerry Duggan Artist: C F Villa Colourist: Matt Milla Letterer: Clayton Cowles Design: Tom Muller with Jay Bowen Editor: Jordan D White COVER \/ PAGE 1:\u00a0Cyclops and Jean in action alongside Ikaris and Sersi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annotations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8183,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180\/revisions\/8183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}