{"id":8961,"date":"2023-04-13T22:01:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T21:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8961"},"modified":"2023-04-13T22:01:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T21:01:51","slug":"storm-the-brotherhood-of-mutants-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8961","title":{"rendered":"Storm & The Brotherhood of Mutants #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>STORM AND THE BROTHERHOOD OF MUTANTS #3
\n<\/strong>“Sins of Sinister, part 9: The Song of the End”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Al Ewing<\/strong>
\nArtist: Alessandro Vitti<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Rain Beredo<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Ariana Maher<\/strong>
\nDesign: Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Jordan D White<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong> A symbolic image of a godlike Sorm with a hazy crowd looking up at her.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2.<\/strong>\u00a0Establishing shot of the World Farm.<\/em><\/p>\n

It was on fire when Mr Sinister arrived at it in\u00a0Immoral X-Men<\/em> #3 – apparently, this is just its standard appearance.<\/p>\n

The narration follows the 6-4-5 syllable pattern of Lodus Logos’s dialogue in\u00a0X-Men Red<\/em> – the “Great Lodus” referred to here.<\/p>\n

The Storm System.\u00a0<\/strong>In\u00a0Immortal X-Men<\/em> #3, Destiny’s vision of possible future timelines includes “the Storm System” as one possible end point, following “the Empire of the Red Diamond”.<\/p>\n

PAGE 3.\u00a0<\/strong>Jon Ironside and Khora.<\/em><\/p>\n

“What Arakko once meant – what it’s come to mean again”.\u00a0<\/strong>The inhabitants of the World Farm consider themselves the continuation of Arakki culture, since they’re based on the survivors of the original Arakko’s destruction. Prior to relocating to our dimension, Arakko spent centuries in eternal war in the dimension of Amenth; as this particular timeline has turned out, the society’s relatively peaceful time on Mars turned out to be a blip.<\/p>\n

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“The Queen in Red”.<\/strong> Emma Frost, now a red diamond being following an apparent merger with the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak, as seen in\u00a0Immoral X-Men<\/em> #3.<\/p>\n

“The Diamond Jubilee disaster.”<\/strong> Presumably some sort of unfortunate incident involving Emma Frost and Jubilee (or their chimeras), though obviously it’s a pun on the anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n

“Someone once asked me my deepest regret. I said I should have trusted the storm.”<\/strong> Ironfire is referring to his conversation with Mother Righteous in the previous issue. More specifically, she asked him if there was anything he would do differently if you could. He replies that in the Genesis War, “I made a mistake – took a life that haunts me still. My faith, it’s a penance. Because I didn’t have faith then. I didn’t trust the Storm.” So basically, he’s done something bad in the past because he didn’t place his faith in Storm, and he wanted to atone by giving her that trust now. What he’s wavering about is whether his desire to resurrect Storm, as per Sinister’s proposals, is a potentially disastrous misstep that he’s about to fall for due to his faith in her.<\/p>\n

Khora<\/strong> turns out to be the surviving member of the regular\u00a0X-Men Red\u00a0<\/em>cast, though plenty of Arakkii seem to be blessed with remarkably long lifespans.<\/p>\n

PAGE 4.\u00a0<\/strong>Ironfire heads to meet with the New Five.<\/em><\/p>\n

X-Man. <\/strong>Cable, who was using that name last issue.<\/p>\n

The Orphan-Madrox<\/strong> is presumably a chimera of Madrox and the Orphan-Maker, whose supposedly devastating powers remain a mystery.<\/p>\n

The dog<\/strong> and its visor were with Ironfire last issue.<\/p>\n

“We’re not afraid of a life that ends.”<\/strong>\u00a0This is a mantra from\u00a0X-Men Red<\/em>, where the Arakkii consistently reject the notion of resurrection, and Storm and Magneto have to forgo the option in order to earn the Arakkii’s trust. As Khora points out, not only is it a bad idea on its own terms to play along with Sinister’s schemes, it’s contrary to the values of the society that Ironfire is meant to embody, and presumably contrary to Storm’s own wishes to boot.<\/p>\n

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

PAGE 6.\u00a0<\/strong>Emma Frost on the bridge of her ship.<\/em><\/p>\n

The four identical crew members are\u00a0Sage Advisors<\/strong>, per the data page on page 10. They’re chimeras of Sage (not especially visible), Artie Maddicks (hence the head shapes), Betsy Braddock (hence the psychic butterflies) and Madrox (with his symbol on their costume).<\/p>\n

PAGES 7-9.\u00a0<\/strong>The New Five resurrect Storm.<\/em><\/p>\n

The New Five<\/strong> are, with the exception of Khora, new characters, filling the role of the regular Five in carrying out a wonky form of resurrection. Oda is taking Egg’s role; Khora (with the help of a blood sample from Hope) is doing Hope’s job; Bloodroot is roughly analogous to Exodus. Craana is apparently a reality warper standing in for Proteus. The main difference is Genas, a telepath who is drawing on Ironfire’s memories to reconstruct something of Storm’s history, in place of Tempus, the time-warper. The regular Five don’t include anyone responsible for the restoration of memories, which is done separately by any old telepath with security clearance who happens to be passing.<\/p>\n

Ironfire is delighted by the return of his goddess, while Sinister seems more delighted that his plans are going smoothly.<\/p>\n

There’s some ambiguity about whether this really is “true resurrection”, despite what the poetic narrator says. Sinister stresses that because this Storm lacks the original’s memories, “the Storm you knew remains dead”. This does seem to accord with the suggestion in other Krakoan stories that the process of restoring memories from backup somehow helps to draw the original soul back to the body.<\/p>\n

PAGE 10.\u00a0<\/strong>Data page, maintaining the degraded VHS tape look of the data pages in the previous two issues. As well as explaining the chimera components of Sage Advisor, this page identifies the chimeras we’ll see on the next page:<\/p>\n