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

\"\"<\/a>X-FORCE vol 6 #41<\/strong>
\n“The Ghost Calendars, part 2”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Benjamin Percy<\/strong>
\nArtist: Paul Davidson<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Guru-eFX<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Joe Caramagna<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller with Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1:\u00a0<\/strong>The makeshift X-Force on a mound of skulls – Colossus, Wolverine, Domino, Omega Red, elderly Kid Omega and alt-future Deadpool. (The real one was left behind last issue.)<\/p>\n

PAGES 2-5.\u00a0<\/strong>Beast buries clones of himself at world heritage sites.<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s not entirely clear whether this is something Beast is actually up to now, or simply part of the back story of the future timeline, but it doesn’t really matter. Beast’s basic idea here is audaciously silly: the best way to make sure his clones survive into the future is to hide them within world heritage sites, because nobody’s going to mess about with them. Which kind of begs the question of how he got in in the first place, and how he expects that shallow grave in Stonehenge to go unnoticed, but let’s assume he’s bribing or mind controlling people or whatever.<\/p>\n

Over in\u00a0Wolverine<\/em>, Beast was paranoid about his clones undermining his control, but presumably he’s not so bothered about these guys, because he doesn’t expect to be around. Or perhaps these are more spare clone bodies in which he can be resurrected with his own mind, as happened (somehow) in the epilogue of\u00a0Wolverine<\/em> #30. But probably not, because Quentin’s explanation last issue was that Beast “has planted various versions of himself to influence the future.” He described them as “experimental hatchlings and mutations”.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The Beast clone buried in Stonehenge is holding the Cerebro Sword, evidently being positioned here as some sort of Excalibur analogue.<\/p>\n

PAGE 6.\u00a0<\/strong>Recap and credits.<\/p>\n

PAGES 7-11.\u00a0<\/strong>X-Force arrive on a Krakoan world.<\/em><\/p>\n

The previous issue ended with Quentin explaining that X-Force had to work their way back through time to eliminate all Beast’s sleeper clones. Since Quentin tells us at the end that the next jump will be their last, apparently we’ve skipped over a bunch of iterations of this.<\/p>\n

The Krakoan world in the sky has the face of the Beast – which is rather clearer on page 18, but you can see the teeth.<\/p>\n

The rest of this is self-explanatory, and the one reference to earlier stories is footnoted anyway.<\/p>\n

PAGES 12-14.\u00a0<\/strong>X-Force meet the local Deadpool.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is an alternate Deadpool who made it to the far future by simply not dying.<\/p>\n

Staten Island.<\/strong> Deadpool was ruling Staten Island as a kingdom of monsters in his 2020-2021 series, though the whole thing seems to have been quietly dropped somewhere around the end of\u00a0King in Black<\/em>. At any rate, that’s why he’s sat out the intervening millennia ruling Staten Island.<\/p>\n

Blind Al<\/strong> was a supporting character from Deadpool’s first ongoing, who also showed up in Wolverine<\/em> #20-23.<\/p>\n

PAGE 15.\u00a0<\/strong>Data page. This is a sequel to the data page in the previous issue, also headed “Cerebrax <Former Cerebro Cradle>” and using the same art. That one was a basically straight recap of issue #29. This one basically consists of the voice of Cerebrax dementedly repeating its insistence that it and Quentin are the same person – apparently an ongoing distraction that Quentin has to deal with, coming to a peak right now.<\/p>\n

PAGES 16-19.\u00a0<\/strong>A Beast bioweapon attacks.<\/em><\/p>\n

Omega Red dies, but doubtless he’ll be back.<\/p>\n

Quentin apparently destroys the entire Krakoan hivemind for this world, on the view that it’s corrupted by Beast.<\/p>\n

PAGE 20.<\/strong> Data page. Beast compares his clones to the lodgepole pine, which does indeed germinate in the aftermath of forest fires<\/a>. (Some of them, anyway. Apparently the populations vary.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

PAGE 21.\u00a0<\/strong>Colossus and Domino discuss the Beast.<\/em><\/p>\n

Colossus raises outright the question of whether the Beast is under some sort of outside influence. Of course, Colossus\u00a0himself<\/em> is under the influence of Chronicler, and has been throughout this series. In the previous issue, Chronicler lost control of Colossus when he went into the future, and Colossus claimed to be confused and to feel like he was waking up. The fact that he’s so keen to raise this point might suggest that he’s more aware of what was happening, which would fit better with other books – though if so, you’d think he’d take the chance to warn someone.<\/p>\n

Domino’s explanation for Beast’s actions is basically the same one that Beast himself gave in last week’s\u00a0Wolverine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

PAGES 22-24.\u00a0<\/strong>Kid Omega falls to Earth and X-Force make their final jump.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the city we saw at the beginning of the issue, with Stonehenge in a dome. Moreover, it’s also the city we saw at the end of the previous issue, which had a massive Beast-like figure standing over it, with somewhat Nimrod-like properties.<\/p>\n

PAGE 25.<\/strong> Trailers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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