{"id":8211,"date":"2022-08-31T21:55:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T20:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8211"},"modified":"2022-08-31T21:55:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T20:55:44","slug":"x-men-14-annotations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8211","title":{"rendered":"X-Men #14 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>X-MEN vol 6 #14<\/strong>
\nWriter: Gerry Duggan<\/strong>
\nArtist: C F Villa<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Matt Milla<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Clayton Cowles<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller with Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Jordan D White<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1:<\/strong>\u00a0A hooded Cyclops in shackles. This is probably a hangover from an abandoned earlier idea, since it bears no resemblance to the story, and nor does the \u00a0solicitation copy: “WAS CYCLOPS RIGHT? – AN A.X.E. TIE-IN! Are ANY of the X-Men right? Only one can judge them and the Day of Judgment is here, for good or ill, and the newest team of X-Men must face the truth about themselves and what they have done.”<\/p>\n

This is\u00a0X-Men<\/em>‘s second and final tie-in to\u00a0A.X.E.<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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PAGE 2.<\/strong> Data page. Just a quote from Iceman, literally about embracing his Omega status, but obviously extending to the wider idea of downplaying his gay and mutant identities for the comfort of others.<\/p>\n

PAGE 3.<\/strong> The journalist and her editor.<\/em><\/p>\n

Fairly straightforward subtext. This issue is about why the fact that Iceman is a mutant and (moreover) gay isn’t merely incidental.<\/p>\n

PAGES 4-7.<\/strong>\u00a0Cyclops and Magik fight aliens.<\/em><\/p>\n

These guys apparently haven’t heard that Gameworld was shut down by the X-Men in issue #12, and still hope that they can claim a fortune by destroying the Earth. They seem to be wearing Nova helmets, though they might just be for show, since they don’t actually do anything.<\/p>\n

PAGE 8.<\/strong> Recap and credits. We’re after\u00a0A.X.E.: Judgment Day<\/em> #3, which just means we’re in publication order.<\/p>\n

PAGE 9.<\/strong>\u00a0Jean Grey briefs Iceman.<\/em><\/p>\n

Apparently, regular old Eternals have joined the assault alongside the Hex.<\/p>\n

PAGES 10-18.<\/strong>\u00a0The X-Men make plans and Iceman saves the day.<\/em><\/p>\n

Iceman doing his Omega thing. The other thing of note is Firestar getting a chance to work with Iceman and to help save the day; obviously, she’s the character most in need of establishing in this book.<\/p>\n

PAGE 19.<\/strong>\u00a0Iceman and Firestar come down to Earth.<\/em><\/p>\n

Note that Firestar refers to her “power” before correcting herself to the Krakoan-preferred “gift” – she’s still basically an outsider to mutant culture.<\/p>\n

The “God hates muties” campaigners are very obviously a reference to homophobic protests, in particular those of the Westboro Baptist Church.<\/p>\n

PAGE 20.<\/strong> Data page. Iceman spells out the moral, and draws a parallel with how the aims of minority groups in terms of co-existence and fitting in have changed since the Silver Age. As Iceman points out, with his dual forms, he’s one of the mutants who can pass as an ordinary human if he wants to, and makes a conscious decision not to do so.<\/p>\n

PAGE 21.<\/strong>\u00a0The journalist and her editor.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ah, subtext.<\/p>\n

PAGES 22-24.<\/strong>\u00a0Cyclops visits the Progenitor.<\/em><\/p>\n

Since he was with Magik earlier, apparently Cyclops has got someone to teleport him back just so he can confront the Progenitor in this scene. Cyclops gets the Progenitor’s approval, despite ostentatiously rejecting his authority. We still don’t know what criteria the Progenitor is actually applying, but he seems keen on self-confidence and being a success on your own terms.<\/p>\n

PAGE 25.<\/strong> Trailers. We’re back to the Children of the Vault next issue, it seems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition. X-MEN vol 6 #14 Writer: Gerry Duggan Artist: C F Villa Colour artist: Matt Milla Letterer: Clayton Cowles Design: Tom Muller with Jay Bowen Editor: Jordan D White COVER \/ PAGE 1:\u00a0A hooded Cyclops in shackles. This is probably a hangover […]<\/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-8211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annotations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211","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=8211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8213,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions\/8213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}