{"id":8395,"date":"2022-10-20T21:16:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T20:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8395"},"modified":"2022-10-20T21:16:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T20:16:26","slug":"x-force-33-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8395","title":{"rendered":"X-Force #33 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 #33<\/strong>
\n“The Hunt for X, part 4: Memento Mori”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Benjamin Percy<\/strong>
\nArtist: Robert Gill<\/strong>
\nColourist: Guru-eFX<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller with Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1:<\/strong> Wolverine squares off against Kraven and his Shadow Room dinosaurs.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2.\u00a0<\/strong>Obituary for Mike Pasciulloo.<\/p>\n

PAGES 3-5.\u00a0<\/strong>Kraven hunts the Beast in the Shadow Room.<\/em><\/p>\n

All fairly straightforward. It’s the good old “a villain has trapped us in the Danger Room and switched off the safety protocols” story, an X-Men standard for decades.<\/p>\n

PAGE 6.\u00a0<\/strong>Recap and credits.<\/p>\n

PAGES 7-9.<\/strong>\u00a0Wolverine in the Shadow Room.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wolverine spells out here what this story is supposed to have to do with\u00a0Judgment Day<\/em>: Kraven thinks it’s the end of days and he wants to go out by proving himself against Wolverine. Honestly, that’s a pretty token link to the main story, and though it’s more-or-less claimed on the recap pages of this issue and last, I wouldn’t be in the slightest surprised to learn that this was an already planned storyline that had a few\u00a0Judgment Day<\/em> elements worked into the background so as to justify the crossover tag. It\u00a0is<\/em> a crossover to the wider storyline, but nothing actually seems to turn on that fact.<\/p>\n

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PAGE 10.\u00a0<\/strong>Data page: the alarms go off. Presumably the third unknown “victim” of the Shadow Room is Kraven himself, and the alarms are just listing everyone inside.<\/p>\n

PAGES 11-12.\u00a0<\/strong>Sage finds Omega Red and Deadpool.<\/em><\/p>\n

“[Omega Red] started it when he dismembered [me]…”<\/strong>\u00a0In issue #30. Sage is ludicrously unsympathetic to Deadpool’s completely reasonable complaint here – Omega Red is of no sensible use to the team if he’s going to randomly attack his own teammates. But a recurring theme has been Sage turning a blind eye to the worst of Omega Red because she’s so determined to believe that he can be redeemed (and by analogy, apparently prove her own ability to overcome her worst traits). Her emotional investment in Omega Red seems to be leading her in the wrong direction. Then again, Percy tends to write\u00a0everyone<\/em> to treat Deadpool as a punching bag, so Sage is kind of following the lead there.<\/p>\n

PAGES 13-14.\u00a0<\/strong>Kraven monologues.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is probably the clearest attempt to tie the story to Judgment Day<\/em>. The specifics of the wider plot don’t matter, but it does make sense for Kraven to find something motivational and primal in the threat of global annihilation.<\/p>\n

PAGES 15-17. <\/strong>Wolverine and Beast in the Danger Room.<\/em><\/p>\n

As Beast notes, he hasn’t been in action for a long, long time – and as usual, he confidently proclaims his ability moments before tripping up.<\/p>\n

PAGES 18-24.\u00a0<\/strong>X-Force defeat Kraven and escape the Shadow Room.<\/em><\/p>\n

All pretty straightforward. Wolverine refuses to indulge Kraven’s obsessions and declines to kill him (though he leaves him to the mercy of the Danger Room). This makes sense; even though Wolverine shares some of Kraven’s obsession with the primacy of nature and such like, Wolverine sees killing as a regrettable necessity, and views his own homicidal urges as something to be suppressed. So he has little sympathy for Kraven’s vision of hunting as a primal contest.<\/p>\n

PAGE 25.\u00a0<\/strong>Data page – an exchange between the two Wolverines, Logan and Laura. Logan repeats some themes he’s been mentioning throughout Percy’s stories, principally his concern that Krakoa is making the mutants complacent. This is the side of him that\u00a0does<\/em> agree with Kraven, and sees the threat of death as something that gives meaning to life. It’s a bit weird to have him presenting Kraven as a paradigm-shifting incident for the Krakoan population alongside the Progenitor, though. More impressive threats than Kraven have made it onto the island in the past.<\/p>\n

PAGE 26.\u00a0<\/strong>Kraven visits Avengers Mountain.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kraven apparently survived being eaten by the Shadow Room dinosaur – despite all that stuff about the safeties being off – because the room itself was failing at the same time. As for how he got off the island, who the heck knows? Anyway, this is presumably after\u00a0Judgment Day<\/em> (spoilers: the world doesn’t end), and apparently the Progenitor has been turned back into Avengers Mountain (which… actually is kind of a spoiler, and I wouldn’t have given it away here).<\/p>\n

PAGE 27.\u00a0<\/strong>Trailers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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