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

\"\"<\/a>LEGION OF X #9<\/strong>
\n“A Voice in the Wilderness”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Si Spurrier<\/strong>
\nPenciller: Netho Diaz<\/strong>
\nInkers: Sean Parsons & \u00c1lvaro L\u00f3pez<\/strong>
\nColourist: Java Tartaglia<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Clayton Cowles<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller with Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Sarah Brunstad<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong> A corrupted Nightcrawler, leading the techno-organic infection in the Narthex, with Legion and Professor X’s faces hovering behind.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2.<\/strong> Data page – a string of alert events, presumably the one that Fabian is reading on the next page. The first one relates to the events of the previous issue. The others seem to be just generic examples of other mutants becoming corrupted by the same thing that’s afflicting Nightcrawler. Item five relates to the Akademos Habitat on Krakoa (the teens’ area), but I don’t think it relates to anything specific from this arc.<\/p>\n

PAGE 3-4.<\/strong>\u00a0Other mutants are corrupted; the Legion react.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Paras Gavaskar\u00a0<\/strong>is Indra, mostly a background character from the\u00a0New X-Men\u00a0<\/em>days, though he did get some spotlight arcs in\u00a0X-Men: Legacy<\/em>. His belief in non-violence is an established feature of the character.<\/p>\n

Glow Worm<\/strong> is a very obscure character. His only previous appearances are X-Factor\u00a0<\/em>#7 (1986), where he attacked X-Factor during their period as supposed mutant hunters, and\u00a0New Mutants Annual<\/em> #4 (1988) where he died of radiation poisoning.<\/p>\n

Irina Clayton\u00a0<\/strong>is Choir, a recurring background student from Grant Morrison’s\u00a0New X-Men<\/em>. She has three extra mouths on her neck, which normally just let her do other voices and such like minor tricks.<\/p>\n

Professor X\u00a0<\/strong>was prompted to come here by Blindfold’s visit last issue, where she lectured him about Legion needing \u00a0his father’s love. That scene ended with Professor X opening a computer file about a “contingency operation”, which is presumably something to do with the thing he sticks on Legion in this scene.<\/p>\n

PAGE 5.<\/strong> Recap and credits.<\/p>\n

PAGES 6-8.\u00a0<\/strong>Nightcrawler, Dr Nemesis, Pixie and Black Knight confront Margali.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Winding Way\u00a0<\/strong>is covered further in the next data page.<\/p>\n

Pixie’s soul dagger<\/strong>\u00a0is basically a scaled down version of Magik’s soulsword. It was created in\u00a0New X-Men<\/em> #40 (2007) when Pixie allowed a small part of her own soul to be used to reconstitute Magik’s soul, an echo of the way Belasco had once conjured magical gems from Illyana’s soul. Like the Soulsword, it can be used to disrupt magic.<\/p>\n

PAGE 9.<\/strong> Data page on the Winding Way. The term comes from Margali’s debut in\u00a0X-Men Annual<\/em> #4 (1980). The bit about her power waxing and waning comes later, though I’m not immediately sure where it was actually introduced – it doesn’t seem to feature in any of her early appearances. The idea of her mental state altering depending on her power levels seems to originate in\u00a0Dr Strange<\/em> #57 (1983), but that story mainly presents her as deriving her power from a cursed wand which drives her mad. I think<\/em> this particular interpretation may well come from Excalibur\u00a0<\/em>#76, a minor Scott Lobdell story, where she certainly is shown as being weakened due to her then-current position on the Winding Way.<\/p>\n

“An exocentric field of magic…”<\/strong> In the Marvel context, this is supposed to just mean that it draws on energy sources from outside this dimension. “Exocentric” is a real word, but according to Merriam-Webster, it means “not having the same grammatical function as a nonmodifying immediate constituent”. So now you know.<\/p>\n

“Thaumaturgic.”<\/strong> Just a fancy synonym for “miraculous” or “wondrous”; thaumaturgics is sometimes used as a name for stage magic.<\/p>\n

“Kitab Asrar an-nujum.”<\/strong> I can’t see any reference to a “famed” book of this name, but it’s Arabic for “book of secrets and astrology”, or something along those lines.<\/p>\n

PAGES 10-12.\u00a0<\/strong>The Spirit of Variance helps Cypher.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Scream of Change\u00a0<\/strong>is a combination of Ghost Rider’s Penance Stare – or the Spirit of Variance’s version of it – with the powers of his host Banshee, presumably meaning that this is a relatively new development. Apparently, unlike Ghost Rider’s approach of traumatising his victims with their past acts, the Spirit of Variance provides insight that lets people develop.<\/p>\n

Nimrod<\/strong> is (presumably) the version from the Hickman stories, i.e. the artificial intelligence robot created by Orchis. Apparently he – or at least an AI aligned with him – was responsible for killing Magus (as reported in issue #1) and Paulie DiCosta (in issue #4). In the latter issue we only saw his purple arms (as shown here), but he did indeed have robotic lettering for his dialogue. He killed Paulie in order to release Switch, presumably just to cause trouble. Warlock’s humanoid appearance on the astral place in this arc is presumably intended to explain why this other AI similarly looks different in the Altar.<\/p>\n

PAGES 13-14.<\/strong>\u00a0Legion gives Professor X a tour of the Altar.<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s Somnus and Birdy you can see in the final panel on page 13.<\/p>\n

Obviously, Professor X has come here with his anti-Legion plan and already put it into action before realising that he’s made a terrible mistake.<\/p>\n

PAGES 15-17.\u00a0<\/strong>Margali defeats Nightcrawler’s group.<\/em><\/p>\n

Fungal computing<\/strong> really has been proposed<\/a>, although more as a sort of sensor than an actual processing system.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Margali seems to just be doing this for the money, because she’s been hired by Orchis.<\/p>\n

PAGES 18-20.\u00a0<\/strong>The Technarchy moves on Krakoa.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mother Righteous\u00a0<\/strong>shows up to have another stab at getting Legion to take her deal, as she’s been attempting throughout the series.<\/p>\n

Presumably it’s not a coincidence that this massive Technarchy shows up as soon as Legion’s defences have been lowered by Professor X’s paranoid attempt to hobble him – Professor X has undermined the defences that Warlock showed Legion how to build. But, as explained in the next scene, this thing has also been summoned by Nimrod’s Phalanx on Krakoa turning the Narthex into a Babel Spire.<\/p>\n

PAGES 21-22, 24.<\/strong>\u00a0Forget-me-Not is stuck inside the Narthex.<\/i><\/p>\n

Since Juggernaut has lost his headset, he can’t remember properly who Forget-Me-Not is, and Forget-Me-Not’s attempts to pass on a message are immediately forgotten.<\/p>\n

The painting on the wall – showing a “hollow” Nightcrawler with a sword, according to Forget-Me-Not, though we still don’t get to see it – is presumably the one that Zsen painted using her powers in issue #5.<\/p>\n

Inside, Nimrod has apparently managed to hack Krakoa and take over its persona.<\/p>\n

PAGE 23.<\/strong> Carlos Pacheco obituary.<\/p>\n

PAGE 24.\u00a0<\/strong>Trailers. “Among Us Stalk The Sentinels” was the title of the first Sentinels story, from\u00a0X-Men<\/em> #14 (1965).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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