{"id":8202,"date":"2022-08-25T23:11:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T22:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8202"},"modified":"2022-08-25T23:11:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T22:11:11","slug":"marauders-5-annotations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8202","title":{"rendered":"Marauders #5 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>MARAUDERS vol 2 #5<\/strong>
\n“Hell Can Wait”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Steve Orlando<\/strong>
\nArtist: Andrea Broccardo<\/strong>
\nColourist: Matt Milla<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Ariana Maher<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller<\/strong>
\nEditor: Jordan D White<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1:<\/strong> Bishop fights Nemesis – I guess? I mean, in terms of the layout, it looks more like they’re fighting side by side, but that doesn’t make sense.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2.<\/strong>\u00a0Xandra is resurrected.<\/em><\/p>\n

Xandra was assassinated by the Kin Crimson in issue #3. We already learned in\u00a0X-Men Red<\/em> #4 that Xandra survived her assassin by psychically transmitting her memory and her genetic code to Cerebro (don’t ask how she’s able to sequence her own DNA), and that explanation gets repeated in this issue.<\/p>\n

PAGE 3.<\/strong>\u00a0Aurora and Daken fight Chronicle and the Kin Crimson.<\/em><\/p>\n

PAGE 4.\u00a0<\/strong>In the past, the Acolytes react to the fight with Nemesis.<\/em><\/p>\n

A footnote confirms that this scene takes place during X-Men<\/em> #42 (1995). So, here’s how the story played out the first time round:<\/p>\n

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In\u00a0X-Men Prime<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(1995), Apocalypse’s son from the Age of Apocalypse\u00a0<\/em>timeline – I’ll come back to the name – is one of several characters to show up in the main timeline after the end of that crossover. He\u00a0shows up in orbit, frozen in a lump of ice. Exodus decides that he’s a sign, and has the Acolytes bring him aboard their space station.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0X-Men<\/strong><\/em> #42<\/strong>, the Acolytes inspect the strange bandaged man and conclude that he’s a massively powerful mutant. Exodus (whose religiosity is alienating many of the Acolytes by this point) decides that this is truly wonderful. Overnight, the newcomer absorbs the life energy of a couple of Acolytes to recharge himself, and escapes. He recognises Exodus as one of the X-Men from his timeline, and Exodus quickly does a U-turn and decides that he must kill the blasphemer. They fight and, on page 19, there’s a big explosion. The Acolytes react to the chaos, and Amelia Voght teleports to Earth to get help in the form of Scott and Jean.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0X-Men<\/strong><\/em> #43<\/strong>, Scott and Jean get sidetracked fighting some of the more fervent Acolytes. Exodus and Nemesis continue to fight and tear the space station apart. Scott and Jean then help the Acolytes to evacuate, while Exodus and Nemesis fall to Earth under their own power.<\/p>\n

The version of events in this issue isn’t faithful to the original, in what looks like a mixture of deliberate changing of some rather contentious elements, possible outright mistakes, and possible deliberate smoothing over of some minor points of detail that might have called for explanation:<\/p>\n