{"id":8981,"date":"2023-04-24T21:41:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T20:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8981"},"modified":"2023-04-24T21:42:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T20:42:51","slug":"new-mutants-lethal-legion-2-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8981","title":{"rendered":"New Mutants: Lethal Legion #2 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>NEW MUTANTS: LETHAL LEGION #2<\/strong>
\n“Terrible Decisions”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Charlie Jane Anders<\/strong>
\nPenciller: Enid Bal\u00e1m<\/strong>
\nInker: Elisabetta D’Amico<\/strong>
\nColourist: Matt Milla<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Travis Lanham<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller with Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Sarah Brunstad<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1:<\/strong> Escapade in front of a Lethal Legion recruitment poster, having apparently swapped roles with Grim Reaper – who isn’t in this story, but did have an involvement with an earlier version of the Lethal Legion. The papers blowing around her include photos of Dani, Rahne and Gabby.<\/p>\n

PAGES 2-4.<\/strong>\u00a0Wolfsbane and Morgan flee into an underground survivalist camp.<\/em><\/p>\n

They disturbed this thing last issue, while hunting for potentially useful technology in an abandoned underground lab that once belonged to Spencer Smythe. It seems to be just some Thing Living In The Tunnels.<\/p>\n

They stumble into what seems to be some sort of anti-mutant survivalist camp, hiding away from some sort of mutant-related apocalypse. So far as we can tell from this issue, this bunch seem relatively harmless – they really do just want to hide away in the tunnels and sit out the end of the world.<\/p>\n

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PAGE 5.<\/strong> Recap and credits. Oddly, the recap claims that Escapade had joined the New Mutants before the U-Men storyline – she had joined the\u00a0cast<\/em> but she hadn’t joined the\u00a0team<\/em>, unless you’re counting Lost Club as part of the New Mutants.<\/p>\n

PAGES<\/strong> 6-8.\u00a0<\/strong>Escapade, Cerebella and Scout arrive at Nefaria’s castle.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the Lethal Legion recruitment event that was being advertised last issue. Escapade and Scout are still in the makeshift villain costumes that they created last issue, with Escapade as “BlasterDame” and Scout as “FistiCuss”. Cerebella doesn’t get one because she’s just going to sneak inside. Cerebella doesn’t seem to be taking this terribly seriously – maybe a case of the somewhat relaxed Krakoan attitude to the threat of death – and Escapade perceives herself as the one who is having to be “responsible”. Which is slightly absurd, of course, since the truly responsible thing would be to get the hell out of there.<\/p>\n

Jonathan<\/strong> is Scout’s pet wolverine.<\/p>\n

The Lemurians<\/strong> are a kind of sister race to the Atlanteans.<\/p>\n

The Lethal Legion auditionees<\/strong> are a truly motley crew of nonentities, but the vast majority of them\u00a0are<\/em> pre-existing characters – maybe even all of them, but at any rate, here are the recognisable ones.<\/p>\n