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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 #32<\/strong>
\n“From Emma, With Love”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Gerry Duggan<\/strong>
\nArtist: Phil Noto<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Clayton Cowles<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller & Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Jordan D White<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong> Magik and Shadowkat fight Orchis.<\/p>\n

PAGES 2-3. <\/strong>Orchis go after the Mykines Island Lighthouse Keeper.<\/em><\/p>\n

“The site of the so-called ‘Mutant Massacre’.” <\/strong>X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023<\/em>, where Orchis forced most of the mutants off Earth, slaughtered the human guests in attendance, and blamed the mutants for it.<\/p>\n

The Lighthouse Keeper<\/strong>, who’s never been named, was shown as either flirting with Jumbo Carnation or perhaps being in a relationship with him in that issue, and also in\u00a0Marauders<\/em> vol 1 #17. We’re told here that he “used to travel the world” with Jumbo, which really makes no sense if he’s meant to be a lighthouse keeper, but perhaps this is supposed to be shared history from before he came here.<\/p>\n

Why have Orchis only just remembered this inconvenient witness sitting here with (as far as they know) no defence? Look, they just haven’t, alright.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Lockheed <\/strong>wasn’t in X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023<\/em>, but apparently we’re to take it that he was there off panel, and he’s been recovering from his injuries with the lighthouse keeper ever since. So far as I can tell, Lockheed was last seen before the Gala, in X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic<\/em> #100.<\/p>\n

PAGE 4. <\/strong>Emma updates everyone on the plot.<\/em><\/p>\n

Polaris took down the Orchis space station in Fall of the House of X<\/em> #2.<\/p>\n

Iron Man’s diversion to draw the Stark Sentinels to the Australian outback is covered in Invincible Iron Man<\/em> #15.<\/p>\n

PAGES 5-6. <\/strong>Emma takes down some random Orchis agents.<\/em><\/p>\n

Emma’s “HELL FIRE” knuckle duster weapons were given to her by Iron Man in Invincible Iron Man<\/em> #15.<\/p>\n

We’ll see later in the issue that this is Hershey, Pennsylvania, near the facility that Magik and Shadowkat are breaking into. Perhaps these random mutants who are just hanging around were among the group who got detoured to Vanaheim in Realm of X <\/em>and returned with Illyana.<\/p>\n

PAGE 7. <\/strong>Recap and credits.<\/p>\n

PAGES 8-12. <\/strong>Magik attacks an Orchis facility.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Reverend Stryker Education Center for Disadvantaged Youth<\/strong> is named along the lines of the Henry Gyrich centre in New York, which has had various slightly different names on panel, all similar to this one. Reverend Stryker is the anti-mutant preacher best known as the villain of X-Men: God Loves Man Kills<\/em> (or Marvel Graphic Novel <\/em>#5, if you prefer the official name).<\/p>\n

Magik<\/strong> was infected by Orchis nanotech in issue #23, to stop her evacuating the mutants from the Hellfire Gala when Orchis eventually attacked in X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023<\/em>. She’s one of the minority of mutants who got detoured from the White Hot Room and ended up in Vanaheim in Realm of X<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Her plot in Realm of X<\/em> largely involved her lacking access to her magical<\/em> powers, due to Saturnyne’s control of magical energy in Vanaheim at the time. I don’t recall any suggestion that the nanites were causing her any progressive difficulties beyond shutting down her powers. She seemed perfectly healthy at the end of the series. But hey, let’s be generous and assume that as creations of science, they don’t work so well in magical realms, and only started progressing again once she got back to Earth.<\/p>\n

Apparently since she got back to Earth in Realm of X<\/em> #4, Magik has been focussing on locating the Orchis installation responsible for her power loss.<\/p>\n

PAGES 13-15. <\/strong>Shadowkat rescues Magik.<\/em><\/p>\n

Shadowkat and Magik were Best Friends in the Claremont era. They shared a room at the Mansion and get the soulmate routine from time to time.<\/p>\n

Magik indicates here that she tried to find the X-Men on getting back to Earth, and failed. Apparently it’s pure coincidence that she happens to attack this installation just as Shadowkat is breaking in to the same place (and Emma is hovering around outside).<\/p>\n

“Colossus… is a survivor. He’s with Logan.”<\/strong> Magik’s brother Colossus is over in X-Force<\/em>. Kate’s hesitation is presumably because she’s now learned about his period being controlled by Scrivener, but this isn’t the time to tell Illyana about that. At any rate, she pointedly avoids confirming that Colossus is “okay”.<\/p>\n

“A doctor.”<\/strong> Polaris; she picked up a doctorate during the Krakoan era, as established in Trial of Magneto<\/em> and mentioned periodically in this series.<\/p>\n

PAGES 16-20. <\/strong>Polaris destroys the nanites and the X-Men destroy the facility.<\/em><\/p>\n

“The Orchis dude we stole Mars from.” <\/strong>Feilong. His motivation is that he was about to colonise Mars when the mutants got there first.<\/p>\n

“The gate I entered fritzed out.”<\/strong> Not exactly correct; it was redirected to Vanaheim by Curse. But you could say it fritzed out because<\/em> Curse messed with it.<\/p>\n

“I left the Gala because I have depression.”<\/strong> Again, that’s not in the original issue.<\/p>\n

PAGE 21. <\/strong>Magik and Shadowkat are reunited with Lockheed.<\/em><\/p>\n

Self-explanatory, but we’re going for an all-is-right-with-the-world-again moment.<\/p>\n

PAGE 22. <\/strong>Cyclops joins the telepathic<\/em> discussion.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is apparently picking up from the end of Fall of the House of X<\/em> #2, where Alia turns on Orchis.<\/p>\n

PAGE 23. <\/strong>Trailers. The Krakoan reads AS THE WORLD BURNS (with a typo – THE is written as three separate characters, instead of using the symbol that’s supposed to represent TH).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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