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

\"\"<\/a>IMMORTAL X-MEN #10<\/strong>
\n“Hated and Feared”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Kieron Gillen<\/strong>
\nArtist: Lucas Werneck<\/strong>
\nColourist: David Curiel<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Clayton Cowles<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller & Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Jordan D White<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong>\u00a0Professor X, with his helmet damaged to expose part of his face.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2.\u00a0<\/strong>Carlos Pacheco obituary.<\/p>\n

PAGE 3.\u00a0<\/strong>Mr Sinister creates a new save point.<\/em><\/p>\n

We saw Sinister doing something similar to this with Moira VI in the previous issue – and then burning through all ten of her iterations before finally managing to be semi-successful in his assassination attempt on the Quiet Council. Once again, he uses Velocidad’s time warping powers to get this seventh Moira clone to a stage where she can be used as a save point. As seen in issue #1, Sinister’s scheme involves killing the Moira clones and using their powers to carry information back in time so that when their lives start over, he has access to the information from the deleted timeline. Hence, the absence of any information in the clone’s memory means this is its first timeline.<\/p>\n

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“I’m not going back to bloody Judgment Day.”<\/strong> Sinister used up all ten lives of Moira VI last issue. As he explained last issue, he\u00a0does<\/em> still have a viable save point in his Moira V – but that would mean retracing his steps all the way back to before Judgment Day, and he\u00a0really<\/em> doesn’t want to roll the dice on somebody saving the world from the Progenitor again.<\/p>\n

“I really could do without being trapped helplessly in the Pit forever.”<\/strong> Does he really not know – even with the benefit of his multiple Moiras – that everyone in the Pit has escaped over in the\u00a0Sabretooth\u00a0<\/em>miniseries? Then again, given where this issue is heading, maybe he’s being sarcastic. But… he does seem to put up a significant fight in an attempt to escape. Hmm.<\/p>\n

PAGES 4-5.\u00a0<\/strong>Professor X is taken for resurrection.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sinister succeeded in wiping out all the Quiet Council’s telepaths, plus Hope, during his attack last issue. As the Krakoan security force, X-Force members Beast, Domino and Sage are duly investigating. That winged eyeball Beast is holding was part of Sinister’s attack last issue; it shoots eyebeams. Cable is also here, presumably because of his father\/daughter relationship with Hope.<\/p>\n

Note that Professor X has lost his helmet and his face is seen clearly.<\/p>\n

Professor X is the spotlight narrator for this issue, continuing the structure of each Quiet Council member getting their turn.<\/p>\n

The scene of mutants gathered around Arbora Magna recalls some of the particularly ceremonial resurrections of the early Krakoan era. It’s not the first time that Professor X has been resurrected, so it may be the scale of the attack on the Council that’s prompting this response. Maybe that’s why they’re all in traditional X-Men uniforms, too. They’re all carrying candles, so clearly this is a vigil.<\/p>\n

The crowd art has been done by mirroring the groups on either side of the aisle (though the colouring is varied to make it less obvious). An unfortunate side effect is that in amongst all the generics, the very recognisable Glob Herman appears twice.<\/p>\n

PAGE 6.\u00a0<\/strong>Recap and credits. The title “Hated and Feared” is, of course, an inversion of the X-Men’s traditional “feared and hated by a world they are sworn to protect” tagline.<\/p>\n

PAGE 7.\u00a0<\/strong>Data page: the Beast explains the back-up plans for Krakoan resurrection. Basically, they’re quietly making a repository of DNA that doesn’t depend on Mr Sinister; plenty of psychics can use Cerebro to restore minds from backup; and most of the Five can be adequately copied by Mimic or Synch. Hope is the potentially tricky one. Beast says that there have been disastrous attempts to perform the process without her, by which he presumably means that the other Four members of the Five attempted it alone – it’s evident that nobody has tried copying her powers to take her place before (or at least, neither Mimic nor Synch have).<\/p>\n

The three Krakoan letters are just G, H and M (for Genetic base, Host and Mind). These terms come from a data page in\u00a0House of X\u00a0<\/em>#5, as does the idea that Synch and Mimic could step in.<\/p>\n

PAGES 8-10.\u00a0<\/strong>Hope is resurrected.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Mimic<\/strong> was previously mentioned as a possible stand-in for Hope in\u00a0House of X\u00a0<\/em>#5. I think this is his first actual\u00a0appearance\u00a0<\/em>of the Krakoan era. He was initially presented as someone who had gained the power to mimic the X-Men’s powers through a lab accident, but later retcons do establish him as a mutant. He was a member of the X-Men for literally three issues in 1966. He’s a complete Z-lister and predictably fails to rise to the occasion.<\/p>\n

Synch<\/strong>, fortunately, is made of sterner stuff. Of course, he’s a member of the X-Men right now.<\/p>\n

The guy with the brightly coloured stuff growing on his head is\u00a0mad scientist\u00a0Dr Nemesis<\/strong> from\u00a0Legion of X<\/em>, and the Stepford Cuckoos\u00a0<\/strong>are also present, as some of the more experiences psychics left. For some reason only four of the Cuckoos appear to be here.<\/p>\n

“Even the monster who killed me had a hand in my upbringing, in a failed, foolish attempt to buy himself immortality.”<\/strong> This refers to\u00a0X-Men: Legacy<\/em> #211-214, which reveal that Sinister was involved in the Alamagordo project where Professor X’s parents worked, and engineered himself into the DNA of the Professor and other project children. Eventually Sinister tries to take over Professor X’s body and gets repelled. Scott Summers’ involvement with Sinister is much better known; Sinister secretly ran the orphanage where Scott grew up.<\/p>\n

Note again that we get a clear shot of everyone’s forehead as they come out of the eggs.<\/p>\n

“To me, my X-Men” <\/strong>has become an established catchphrase, even though it doesn’t actually date back to the Silver Age. It just sounds like it could have done.<\/p>\n

PAGE 11.\u00a0<\/strong>The X-Men arrive at Sinister’s base.<\/em><\/p>\n

The X-Men assembled for this attack are:<\/p>\n