{"id":8547,"date":"2022-12-08T22:15:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T22:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8547"},"modified":"2022-12-08T22:15:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T22:15:58","slug":"x-force-35-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8547","title":{"rendered":"X-Force #35 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"X-Force<\/a>X-FORCE vol 6 #35<\/strong>
\n“Prison Break”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Benjamin Percy<\/strong>
\nArtist: Chris Allen<\/strong>
\nColourist: Carlos Lopez<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Joe Caramagna<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller with Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong>\u00a0Beast fighting Maverick and Sevyr Blackmore.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2.<\/strong> Stan Lee tribute page.<\/p>\n

PAGE 3.<\/strong>\u00a0Beast ejects a prisoner into space.<\/em><\/p>\n

I mean, it’s not subtle, is it? There isn’t much to say about this issue in terms of annotations, by the way, but we’ll run through it quickly anyway.\u00a0The Krakoan text reads AIRLOCK.<\/p>\n

PAGE 4-6.\u00a0<\/strong>The riot continues.<\/em><\/p>\n

Solem\u00a0<\/strong>seems to have no ulterior motive here beyond bringing down the Beast. He claims the moral high ground over Maverick on the basis that at least he doesn’t lower himself to working for the Beast, though I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve made the point that Percy’s interpretation of Maverick completely ignores his traditional role as the most decent member of Team X. And I really,\u00a0really<\/em>, don’t buy someone from Arakko giving lectures about the lessons of history regarding fascism.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The Krakoan on Beast’s screen reads NO FEED.<\/p>\n

PAGE 7.<\/strong>\u00a0Domino and Jubilee.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sage is busily apologising to Domino after being too drunk to save her last issue; Domino is being supportive. All of this is terribly heavy handed (the art doesn’t really help it, to be honest) and you may be getting the point by now that I really don’t like this issue at all. Bluntly, I’m not waiting for the pay-off of Beast getting brought down.<\/p>\n

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

PAGES 9-10.<\/strong>\u00a0Beast turns a prisoner into a monster.<\/em><\/p>\n

And then takes refuge in a cell, hoping that everything will blow over or that he’ll be safe until someone shows up to rescue him.<\/p>\n

Man-Slaughter<\/strong> is the Man-Thing-related character from issues #20-21.<\/p>\n

PAGES 11-12.<\/strong>\u00a0X-Force find Beast’s hidden gate.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Krakoan on the video screen reads DATASET.<\/p>\n

Omega Red, for once, is being a good team player – possibly because he was himself exploited by the Beast when he was resurrected with a tracking device.<\/p>\n

Domino is naturally (and correctly) suspicious that Beast is also responsible for Wolverine’s disappearance, as covered over in his solo title.<\/p>\n

PAGES 13-14.<\/strong>\u00a0Maverick abandons the Beast.<\/em><\/p>\n

Percy’s Maverick still draws the line somewhere, which is fine… but again, this just feels so heavy handed to me.<\/p>\n

PAGE 15.<\/strong>\u00a0Data page – a list of some of the prisoners. All the individual characters are new. One of them has apparently tried to assassinate Abigail Brand.\u00a0Moord<\/strong> is the homeworld of the Badoon.\u00a0Sakaar<\/strong> is an alien world from\u00a0Incredible Hulk<\/em>.\u00a0The Cotati<\/strong> are a plant-based alien race from the same homeworld as the Kree.<\/p>\n

PAGES<\/strong> 16-17.<\/strong>\u00a0Domino and Omega Red leave Sage behind.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is obviously meant to be Sage’s turning point on her alcoholism arc.<\/p>\n

PAGES 18-21.\u00a0<\/strong>Domino and Omega Red arrest the Beast.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Krakoan on Sage’s display reads RECEIVING.<\/p>\n

PAGE 22.<\/strong>\u00a0Data page. Sevyr Blackmore tells us that he’s appropriating Beast’s prison to be his new pirate ship, replacing the one that got destroyed in\u00a0Wolverine<\/em> #14-16.<\/p>\n

PAGES 23-25.<\/strong>\u00a0Sage fights the monster.<\/em><\/p>\n

Solem steered this thing through the portal to Krakoa in the previous scene for no particularly obvious reason beyond trouble-making (or perhaps, if you’re being generous, he wants to draw attention to the portal, if the Krakoans haven’t noticed it yet). The idea of Sage harnessing alcohol as a weapon is presumably meant to symbolise her taking control of it.<\/p>\n

PAGE 26.<\/strong> Trailers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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