{"id":9916,"date":"2024-03-13T21:47:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T21:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9916"},"modified":"2024-03-13T21:47:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T21:47:06","slug":"fall-of-the-house-of-x-3-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9916","title":{"rendered":"Fall of the House of X #3 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>FALL OF THE HOUSE OF X #3<\/strong>
\n“The X Deaths of Dr Stasis”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Gerry Duggan<\/strong>
\nArtists: Lucas Werneck & Jethro Morales<\/strong>
\nColourist: Bryan Valenza<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Travis Lanham<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller & Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Jordan D White<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1. <\/strong>Wolverine pins down a terrified Dr Stasis. Wolverine doesn’t actually appear in this issue.<\/p>\n

PAGES 2-4. <\/strong>Orchis attack the Juggernaut.<\/em><\/p>\n

Last issue, the Juggernaut rescued Krakoa from Orchis. God knows how he ended up in the middle of a desert.<\/p>\n

“It’s said that ‘nothing’ can stop the Juggernaut, but that’s not true.”<\/strong> Even at full power, the Juggernaut was in practice stopped on a fairly regular basis, but following his most recent re-powering (in Juggernaut<\/em> vol 3 #4) he seems to be just very big and strong, as opposed to literally unstoppable. In X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023<\/em>, he did survive what seemed to be a devastatingly lethal attack.<\/p>\n

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“[T]he discarded adamantium skeleton of Weapon X”.<\/strong> As seen in Inferno<\/em>, Orchis wound up with a bunch of adamantium skeletons from dead Wolverines after a series of failed attacks by X-Force. We’ve seen them repurposing them as weapons in X-Men<\/em> and X-Force<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It’s not entirely clear why the threat to Krakoa is being presented as an existential matter for mutants by the narrator – particularly since even Cyclops doesn’t seem to think it’s a top priority in the next scene – but presumably the point is that they need Krakoa to re-build their island nation.<\/p>\n

These particular Orchis thugs are still looking surprisingly confident, given that the human side of the organisation has been presented as on the verge of collapse in other stories. But maybe word just hasn’t reached these guys yet.<\/p>\n

PAGES 5-7. <\/strong>Magik rescues Cyclops and Alia Gregor.<\/em><\/p>\n

At the end of the previous issue, Alia Gregor used an EMP to knock out Omega Sentinel and prevent her from executing Cyclops. She then asked Cyclops to ally with her against the AI contingent within Orchis (despite her dialogue here).<\/p>\n

“The X-Men are here for everyone.” <\/strong>Cyclops rightly sees Orchis as the more pressing threat, but more to the point, his whole vision for the X-Men in their Treehouse era was that he wanted them to be heroes for humans as well as mutants.<\/p>\n

Apparently, Orchis took the stitches out of Cyclops’ eyes at some point and they just got better. Why? Mind you, I’m not saying I wanted to see any more of that angle.<\/p>\n

Magik<\/strong> rejoined the team in X-Men<\/em> #32. Again, it’s not exactly spelled out here, but Orchis shut down her powers in Hellfire Gala<\/em> precisely because her high-power teleporting ability was such a problem for them to deal with; now that she’s been repowered in X-Men<\/em> #32, she immediately gets Cyclops out of there.<\/p>\n

PAGE 8. <\/strong>Recap and credits. The story title, “The X Deaths of Dr Stasis”, seems to be referencing X Deaths of Wolverine<\/em>, though it has no apparent connection to the story.<\/p>\n

PAGE 9. <\/strong>Apocalypse addresses the people of Arakko.<\/em><\/p>\n

X-Men Red<\/em> ended with Genesis’ army being defeated, and Arakko being more or less restored to normal. In panel 1, the people on the left hand side are generics. The group on the right includes:<\/p>\n