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

\"\"<\/a>MARAUDERS vol 2 #9<\/strong>
\n“Here Comes Yesterday, part 3”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Steve Orlando<\/strong>
\nArtist: Eleonora Carlini<\/strong>
\nColourist: Matt Milla<\/strong>
\nLetterer & production: Ariana Maher<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller<\/strong>
\nEditor: Jordan D White<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong>\u00a0Kate and Bishop fight the possessed Fang.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2.\u00a0<\/strong>Stan Lee tribute page.<\/p>\n

PAGE 3.<\/strong>\u00a0Nightfount is updated on progress.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nightfount.<\/strong>\u00a0Nightfount was seen briefly in the previous issue, but this is the first time we’ve seen him at any length. He was described last time as “Threshold’s defector” who “leads the Unbreathing against us, razes our cities, intent on reigniting the Oxygen Wars”.<\/p>\n

We’ll find out later in the issue who Nightfount actually is, but\u00a0the design of his helmet is a big clue, as is the fact that he already knows about Arkea and Sublime by name, even though the duo only learn those names from reading the Marauders’ minds later in the issue.<\/p>\n

PAGE 4.<\/strong> Recap and credits.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

“We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live?”<\/strong> This is a quote from “<\/em>The Deeper Life” by Maurice Maeterlinkc (1862-1949) from his 1896 essay collection\u00a0Treasure of the Humble<\/em><\/a>. It’s usually followed with the next sentence: “That is the only place of life.”<\/p>\n

PAGES 5-6.<\/strong>\u00a0The Marauders fight Fang.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pretty straightforward.<\/p>\n

PAGE 7.<\/strong> Somnus distracts Akihiro.<\/em><\/p>\n

Fang’s body is going to have to be killed, and Somnus is entering his mind in order to make sure he doesn’t realise what’s happening. It’s not clear how Somnus is able to use his powers to do this, given that they’re linked to sleep – perhaps, because his consciousness is being suppressed by Sublime, Fang counts as being asleep.<\/p>\n

Sendai<\/strong> is the city in Japan where Daken grew up. The idea is presumably meant to be that Somnus is taking him to his childhood home in the moments before he dies, but the art doesn’t get that over, opting instead for a lot of lamps and a hazy fog. To be fair, it does a better job on the emotion.<\/p>\n

PAGES 8-12.<\/strong>\u00a0The Unbreathing join the fight and the Marauders retreat.<\/em><\/p>\n

Crave<\/strong> gets killed (though presumably he could be resurrected back on Krakoa, as Fang doubtless will be).<\/p>\n

This issue has horrific problems with storytelling clarity, mostly due to the decision to stick the cast in identical uniforms that partially obscure their faces. The names written on the sides of the legs were presumably meant to help with this, but they only go so far.<\/p>\n

PAGE 13.<\/strong> Data page. Another of Grove’s resistance logs. The number indicates that this fits between the two data pages in the previous issue. Basically, the remaining Thresholders have set up a hidden base protected by illusions.<\/p>\n

PAGES 14-15.<\/strong>\u00a0The Marauders meet Grove.<\/em><\/p>\n

Apparently Kate Pryde has just vanished somewhere – the idea\u00a0seems<\/em> to be that she got separated during the last fight and wasn’t with the other Marauders when they escaped, but again, this is not an easy issue to follow visually.<\/p>\n

“I’m not new to losing friends…”<\/strong> Somnus’s back story has him spending his first life as a closeted gay man before being resurrected on Krakoa thanks to Daken’s intervention; he’s quite probably referring to friends who died of AIDS, though of course he could also be referring to human friends and family.<\/p>\n

“What is a double helix but the original ‘X’ in revelry?”<\/strong> This apparently makes perfect sense to Somnus, which is nice, because it’s baffling to me.<\/p>\n

PAGE 16.<\/strong>\u00a0The Marauders are shown the Seed.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Seed<\/strong> is the same puzzle box that Kate was given in\u00a0Annual<\/em> #1; it contained a map of Krakoa, with Kate’s handwriting, reading “the first blood spilled”. Obviously, the implication is that Kate is going to wind up putting that map in the box during this storyline. Tempo refers to Emma Frost “finding” it on Krakoa. It’s not mentioned here, but the puzzle box is made of mysterium, which was only brought to the galaxy by in\u00a0S.W.O.R.D.\u00a0<\/em>#1. Theia tells us that the Thresholders all came from the puzzle box. The strong implication – as hinted at in earlier issues too – is that somebody came back in time to start this civilisation, and apparently engaged in a bit of terraforming along the way, driving out the Unbreathing. In other words, this is not genuinely the genesis of the mutant race, though it\u00a0is<\/em> the earliest point in time at which mutants existed on Earth.<\/p>\n

PAGE 17.<\/strong> Data page – excerpts from minutes of the Threshold Parliament as they debate whether (and how) to continue their battle against the Unbreathing, and complacently assume that everything will be just fine with Arkea and Sublime.<\/p>\n

PAGES 18-21.<\/strong>\u00a0The Marauders are briefed on the threat to the Thresholders’ birthing sea.<\/em><\/p>\n

Psylocke takes command here because she’s a War Captain, but she also has a particular interest in the protection of children given the loss of her own child as covered in\u00a0Fallen Angels<\/em> and\u00a0Hellions<\/em>.<\/p>\n

PAGES 22-25.<\/strong> Nightfount unmasks to Amass.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nightfount turns out to be\u00a0Stryfe<\/strong>, who we last saw in the\u00a0Cable<\/em> solo series – but time travel being what it is, this could be Stryfe at any point in his timeline. He’s wearing an aquatic version of his traditional armour, but the suggestion may be that this is the original and that the more familiar Liefeld design is a stylised version of it from once he stopped… well, wearing a crab on his face.<\/p>\n

Since we’re told that he betrayed Threshold, the implication may be that he was one of its founders, but of course it’s also possible that there’s a genuine Nightfount and Stryfe took his place. Note also, though, that Amass instantly recognises Stryfe once he removes his helmet – apparently Stryfe is a known villain to the Thresholders.<\/p>\n

PAGE 26.<\/strong> Trailers.<\/p>\n

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