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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 #47<\/strong>
\n“The Greenhouse”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Benjamin Percy<\/strong>
\nArtist: Daniel Picciotto<\/strong>
\nColour artist: GURU-eFX<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Joe Caramagna<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller & Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1:<\/strong> X-Force – including Wolverine again – under attack from Stark Sentinels.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2.\u00a0<\/strong>Flashback: X-Force pick up Wolverine.<\/em><\/p>\n

This takes place after Wolverine<\/em> #40, which concludes Wolverine’s run of team-ups with non-mutant heroes, and before\u00a0X-Men<\/em> #28, where he shows up for the X-Men’s visit to Latveria.<\/p>\n

PAGES 3-7.<\/strong> X-Force set up base at the North Pole.<\/em><\/p>\n

Presumably the narrator means “somewhere deep in the Arctic” rather than “literally the North Pole”, since they’re obviously looking for an appropriately secluded location.<\/p>\n

X-Force still have the mobile base that they were hanging around in during the Hellfire Gala (because the remote-controlled Colossus wanted to keep them at a distance where they couldn’t help). Now that the team have escaped Mikhail Rasputin, this means they can actually function as a team again.<\/p>\n

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Kid Omega<\/strong> did return from a very extended time travel storyline in issue #42, but his power loss subplot actually begins in issue #43, when he transfers his consciousness into a new, younger body and immediately finds that his powers aren’t working properly. So his statement here that his powers have been malfunctioning “ever since I came back from the future” doesn’t match what we saw on the page. Possibly the idea is that his powers were playing up beforehand and he just assumed that the new body would cure it.<\/p>\n

(No, Kid Omega doesn’t go straight to his new body on returning home. For some reason he waits until the Hellfire Gala – maybe he had to wait for a body to be prepared. The rest of X-Force appear in at least\u00a0Wolverine<\/em> #35 between returning from the future and the Hellfire Gala, and the backup strip in Wolverine<\/em> #33 also takes place in that period.)<\/p>\n

As usual in this book, Wolverine just yells at Kid Omega to try harder rather than offering any kind of constructive support, though he does at least feel bad about it later. He also passes up the more legitimate criticism that Quentin should have told the rest of the team about the issue so that they could plan accordingly.<\/p>\n

PAGE 8.\u00a0<\/strong>Kid Omega is taken to the Medical Bay.<\/em><\/p>\n

The flashback shows the Orchis attack on the Hellfire Gala in\u00a0X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023<\/em>, and specifically Moira MacTaggert attacking the Stepford Cuckoos – including Phoebe, Quentin’s love interest from earlier in this series. The specific flashback seems to be original.<\/p>\n

PAGE 9.\u00a0<\/strong>Recap and credits.<\/p>\n

PAGES 10-12.\u00a0<\/strong>Fang, Aurora and Northstar arrive.<\/em><\/p>\n

These three have been appearing over in\u00a0Alpha Flight<\/em>, where they were helping to rescue Canadian mutants from the government with a view to evacuating them to the Shi’ar Empire.<\/p>\n

The telepathic signal they received was presumably sent by Kid Omega on page 8. We’re told on page 21 that it actually contains information and isn’t simply a psychic burst that Alpha Flight were able to triangulate. So he’s trying to do what Wolverine asked him to do.<\/p>\n

PAGE 13.\u00a0<\/strong>Data page. Sage’s record of Colossus pleading his case to be allowed to stick around and help the team. He suggests that the mutants who bought into the Krakoan project may not have had a free choice in the matter either. I don’t think he’s literally<\/em> suggesting that Professor X was mind-controlling everyone but he does seem to be making an argument that beyond a certain point the social pressure of Krakoa became impossible for everyone else to resist. At any rate, I don’t think the groundwork is there in the published stories for whatever point Colossus\/Percy is trying to make here – though to be fair, he has consistently pushed the idea that Wolverine is a rare sceptic, and that Beast is what an unmoderated true believer looks like.<\/p>\n

PAGES 14-15.\u00a0<\/strong>Colossus and Domino.<\/em><\/p>\n

For no apparent reason, a scene which appears to come before<\/em> the preceding data page (which records the very decision that Domino says hasn’t been taken yet).<\/p>\n

Colossus is re-enacting as best he can his usual behaviour from this series of turning his back on everything and devoting his time to farming. He and Domino were positioned as a possible couple in the early issues in particular, which is why he feels particularly defensive around her.<\/p>\n

PAGES 16-18. <\/strong>Kid Omega wakes up and goes after Phoebe.<\/em><\/p>\n

Evidently whatever realisation he’s just had has also restored his full powers. He brushes aside any issue of actually explaining this, simply reasserting that he’s an omega mutant.<\/p>\n

PAGES 19-20.\u00a0<\/strong>Kid Omega finds Phoebe on Mykines.<\/em><\/p>\n

Apparently we’re to take it that Orchis just left a bunch of dead mutants lying around on the beach, and the Phoebe has been comatose but alive in diamond form all these months.<\/p>\n

Orchis have at least posted a Stark Sentinel to keep an eye on the place.<\/p>\n

PAGE 21.<\/strong> Data page. Quentin has apparently informed “all surviving mutants” of X-Force’s location. It doesn’t seem to have occurred to anyone that some of those mutants could be working for Orchis (willingly or otherwise), such as the very high profile Firestar.<\/p>\n

PAGES 22-24. <\/strong>Kid Omega attacks the Greenhouse.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wolverine has a typically awkward reunion with his son Daken.<\/p>\n

Apparently prompted by Domino asking what information he can provide as a member of the Quiet Council, Colossus asks to speak to Wolverine about Sabretooth. Presumably, he’s planning to tell Wolverine that Sabretooth escaped the Pit. This leads in to the upcoming\u00a0Wolverine<\/em> storyline.<\/p>\n

The Beast is hanging around with a sniper rifle, though it’s possible he’s just using it here as a telescope. It would be in character for him to hang around the fringes trying to pick off threats to (what’s left of) Krakoa, and to do so counterproductively.<\/p>\n

PAGE 25.\u00a0<\/strong>Trailers. The Krakoan reads GAME RECOGNIZES GAME.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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