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

\"\"<\/a>X-MEN vol 6 #19<\/strong>
\n“Lord of the Brood, part 1”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Gerry Duggan<\/strong>
\nArtist: Stefano Caselli<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Federico Blee<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Clayton Cowles<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller with Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Jordan D White<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong> The X-Men fight the Brood. The image continues on the cover of\u00a0Captain Marvel<\/em> #46, which is cross referenced on the recap page – but that strand of the storyline, “Revenge of the Brood”, actually began back in\u00a0Captain Marvel<\/em> #43. None of that is recapped in this issue, and in fairness, none of it directly matters yet. But here’s what happened:<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Captain Marvel<\/em> #43, Captain Marvel receives a fragmented video message from Rogue. She asks the X-Men about it, and Cyclops and Jean Grey establish that Rogue has gone into space. Another distress call comes in, this time from Binary. (The current Binary is a duplicate Carol Danvers that gained sentience and has been around for several arcs now.) Captain Marvel leads a team into space to investigate, consisting of herself, Hazmat, Spider-Woman, Polaris, Wolverine (Laura), Psylocke and Hazmat. They find Rogue infected with the Brood.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Captain Marvel<\/em> #44, the heroes fight Rogue and eventually resort to killing her, on the basis that she can be resurrected back on Earth. Gambit is still quite upset about it. Psylocke belatedly points out that the Brood are supposed to be under Broo’s control right now (since Hickman’s\u00a0X-Men<\/em> #9), and so this incident shouldn’t have happened. The team track Binary’s distress signal to the planet Ceia II, where they find an whole nest of out-of-control Brood. The aliens capture them and trap them in a hallucination about a nice Shi’ar party.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Captain Marvel<\/em> #45, the heroes break out of the illusion, but naturally they’ve all been infected with Brood eggs. For unclear reasons, the Brood are trying to steal their powers. They split into two teams and head off to fight the Brood.<\/p>\n

Originally,\u00a0X-Men<\/em> #19 was supposed to come out last week, between\u00a0Captain Marvel<\/em> #45-46, so we’ll come back to Captain Marvel<\/em> #46 later.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2.\u00a0<\/strong>Data page. A quote from Forge. This reading of Forge has him feel almost compelled to use his powers to solve problems that are put in front of him. Historically, this has had mixed results, since solving the problem hasn’t always turned out to be the best idea.<\/p>\n

PAGE 3.<\/strong>\u00a0Forge and Monet investigate the gate to Knowhere.<\/em><\/p>\n

Since most of the X-Men are needed elsewhere in the plot, we get Sage from X-Force and Prodigy from X-Factor to serve as sounding boards. Prodigy says on the next page that they were supposedly invited to give their expert opinion, but clearly Forge has no real interest in hearing it.<\/p>\n

Presumably this is another example of Forge solving a mystery Because It’s There, rather than because it’s necessarily a very good idea to solve it. But Monet is apparently willing to give it a go.<\/p>\n

Knowhere\u00a0<\/strong>is a severed Celestial head that was turned into a space station. It’s mostly a\u00a0Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em> concept. It was sucked into a black hole in\u00a0Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em> vol 5 #6, which was indeed published before\u00a0Krakoa went public in\u00a0House of X<\/em> #1. (Only by a month, but it was.)<\/p>\n

PAGE 4.\u00a0<\/strong>Forge explains how there’s a gate on Knowhere.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is evidently how Forge solved the problem of getting a gate onto Knowhere: time travel. Messing with the timeline is not generally a good idea. We don’t get a clear shot of Cable on this page, but the blurry image of him in panel 3 seems to be Kid Cable, not the adult version with better judgment.<\/p>\n

“See you folks at the Arbor Magna.”<\/strong>\u00a0In other words, Sage expects them to die and need resurrection.<\/p>\n

PAGE 5.<\/strong> Forge and Monet see weird images.<\/em><\/p>\n

None of these images make much sense yet. The dwarf blacksmith is presumably from Asgard (or more accurately, Nidavellir).<\/p>\n

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

PAGE 7.\u00a0<\/strong>The X-Men arrive on the outer rim world.<\/em><\/p>\n

We saw Corsair’s distress call at the end of the previous issue, although not the X-Men receiving it.<\/p>\n

Talon (the older version of Laura) has apparently joined the team, which wasn’t made 100% clear last issue.<\/p>\n

Jean helpfully reminds us of the key plot point that Broo is supposed to have had full control of the Brood ever since\u00a0X-Men\u00a0<\/em>vol 5 #9, so that none of this ought to be happening.<\/p>\n

PAGE 8.\u00a0<\/strong>Data page: the caste system and life cycle of the Brood. This is all basically self-explanatory. The term “dwarf queen” seems to be new, but I suspect some of the hive structure material is an attempt to square inconsistent depictions of Brood queens over the years.<\/p>\n

PAGES 9-10.\u00a0<\/strong>Firestar and Iceman face the Brood.<\/em><\/p>\n

Again, we’ve got the fire and ice pairing. Iceman seems to be the character that Firestar is bonding most successfully with, on a team where she doesn’t really know anyone that well.<\/p>\n

“[W]hen I helped terraform Arakko…”\u00a0<\/strong>Planet-Sized X-Men<\/em> #1. I can’t say I’ve really noticed any great change in Iceman since terraforming Arakko, but honestly, the character has been having repeated epiphanies about how powerful he is for years now.<\/p>\n

“I think I’ll hate and fear these ugly things forever.”\u00a0<\/strong>Iceman wasn’t in the first Brood arc, but he has fought them before. He’s in the 1996 miniseries\u00a0X-Men vs Brood<\/em>, for example.<\/p>\n

PAGE 11. <\/strong>Jean asks other telepaths to help find Broo.<\/em><\/p>\n

The appearance of Psylocke here is odd, since she’s busy in the\u00a0Captain Marvel<\/em> arc. Emma and the Cuckoos are presumably back on Earth, but let’s assume the X-Men have brought some sort of communications device to deal with the long distances.<\/p>\n

PAGES 12-18.\u00a0<\/strong>Cyclops, Wolverine and Synch cut the Broodling out of Corsair.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m… pretty sure that’s not been an option in the past? Not least because the Brood used to physically transform their hosts, not just use them as pregnancy carriers. That said, these Brood are slightly different, and something along these lines\u00a0did<\/em> happen in\u00a0Wolverine and the X-Men<\/em> vol 1 #5.<\/p>\n

Cyclops loses his normal composure with his father’s life at risk, and Synch and Talon effectively take the lead.<\/p>\n

“Like when we were separated from Darwin.”<\/strong> Talon is referencing a scene in\u00a0X-Men<\/em> vol 5 #19 where she, Synch and Darwin – during the hundreds of years they spend trapped in the Vault timewarp – try to infiltrate the heart of the city and walk into an ambush by the Children of the Vault. It’s an odd thing for Talon to mention here, since in itself it was a fairly standard ambush – but then again, something that reduced her social circle from three to two for the next few hundred years doubtless registers as a major event in her life.<\/p>\n

PAGES 19-21.\u00a0<\/strong>The X-Men take shelter under an ice fort.<\/em><\/p>\n

Talon (not Synch, note) reveals that the reason Synch has been ageing rapidly is because of his use of his powers to copy people who aren’t within reach. Synch clearly didn’t want to disclose this information, partly because he wants to be heroic, but partly (you suspect) because he sees himself being benched from the team just as Talon has finally come back to it.<\/p>\n

PAGES 22-24.\u00a0<\/strong>Forge and Monet on Knowhere.<\/em><\/p>\n

They find their own bodies alive and unconscious, and assume that they’re astrally projecting or something. Or maybe it’s a time loop?<\/p>\n

The closing page shows Knowhere, itself looking much as it did when he was saw it. It’s a slightly odd piece of art, since what we’re apparently meant to be reacting to is the weird visual effect in the background, but the art actually draws our attention to the most familiar thing instead.<\/p>\n

PAGE 25.\u00a0<\/strong>Trailers.<\/p>\n

Although it’s not listed here, the story continues in\u00a0Captain Marvel<\/em> #46, also out this week. It doesn’t directly connect to this story, though. The heroes find Binary as a prisoner, along with the real Rogue (the one in issue #44 was apparently a Brood who had copied Rogue’s powers). Oh, and Psylocke learns that Captain Marvel has been to an alternate future timeline where Psylocke and Forge had a daughter. According to the trailer page in that issue, the two arcs don’t actually converge until Captain Marvel<\/em> #49.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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