{"id":9980,"date":"2024-04-03T21:28:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9980"},"modified":"2024-04-03T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:28:08","slug":"x-men-33-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9980","title":{"rendered":"X-Men #33 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>X-MEN vol 6 #33<\/strong>
\n“As the World Burns”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Gerry Duggan<\/strong>
\nArtist: Joshua Cassara<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Romulo Fajardo Jr<\/strong>
\nEditor: Jordan D White<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1:<\/strong> The X-Men in action alongside some of Doom\u2019s mutant team.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2.\u00a0<\/strong>Flashback: Sebastian Shaw sends Shinobi Shaw to clear land in Madripoor.<\/em><\/p>\n

Although the caption says \u201cNot long ago\u201d, it\u2019s fairly clear that this takes place during\u00a0Fall<\/em> of the House of X.\u00a0<\/em>Shinobi explains later that Shaw has offered refuge to Killian Devo, the idea being to either help him rebuild Orchis or sell him out to the mutants, depending on how matters go.<\/p>\n

This is the first time we\u2019ve seen Shinobi Shaw since Gerry Duggan\u2019s run on\u00a0Marauders<\/em>. As in that series, he\u2019s not exactly on board with the heir role that Sebastian wants him to play, and is rather more inclined to align with his fellow mutants.<\/p>\n

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PAGES 3-4.\u00a0<\/strong>The Reavers attack Madripoor.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lowtown\u00a0<\/strong>is presented here as part of a continuous city with Hightown, which I must admit is how I\u2019d always imagined it – but the current\u00a0Wolverine: Madripoor Knights\u00a0<\/em>series depicts them as two separate towns with a stretch of countryside (and the small town of Capristi) in between.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve seen this version of the Reavers attacking Lowtown before, in Marauders<\/em> #19. The Morlocks laid claim to the Princess Bar (Wolverine\u2019s old stomping ground, or at least somewhere reusing the name) in that same issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could just get in a boat and leave.\u201d<\/b> This is exactly what the Morlocks (specifically including Callisto) had done in Dark X-Men<\/em> #2, but since they\u2019ve obviously returned since that story, this feels like a continuity error rather than a reference.<\/p>\n

PAGE 5.\u00a0<\/strong>Recap and credits.<\/p>\n

PAGE 6.\u00a0<\/strong>Emma Frost directs traffic.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Orchis space station was destroyed in\u00a0Fall of the House of X<\/em> #2.<\/p>\n

Dr Stasis was killed in\u00a0Fall of the House of X<\/em> #3.<\/p>\n

Captain Krakoa\u2019s acquittal took place in the epilogue of\u00a0Uncanny Avengers<\/em> #5, where he declares himself to be the new Flag-Smasher.<\/p>\n

PAGES 7-8.\u00a0<\/strong>Wolverine kills Orchis soldiers in the X-Men\u2019s underground base.<\/em><\/p>\n

This echoes Wolverine\u2019s attack on Hellfire Club soldiers in\u00a0X-Men<\/em> #133.<\/p>\n

PAGES 9-10. <\/strong>Shadowkat rescues Callisto.<\/em><\/p>\n

Straightforward.<\/p>\n

PAGES 11-12.\u00a0<\/strong>Shinobi explains Sebastian\u2019s plan.<\/em><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve covered this earlier. Killian Devo is described by Shinobi as \u201cthe founder of Orchis\u201d, which is true so far as he and Sebastian know; in fact,\u00a0Inferno<\/em> revealed that he had been co-opted into the role by the time-travelling Omega Sentinel. Devo has never really\u00a0done\u00a0<\/em>much of importance – even under Hickman – and this issue is clearly intended to get him off the playing field.<\/p>\n

PAGES 13-14. <\/strong>The X-Men fight Killian Devo.<\/em><\/p>\n

Our X-Men team this issue are Synch, Emma Frost, Magik, Ms Marvel, Wolverine and Forge (who returned to Earth in Invincible Iron Man<\/em> – we never found out where he had been, or why he appeared somewhere different from all the other mutants).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the mutate Reed Richards was missing, his intellectual property fell into the hands of Damage Control, and Orchis confiscated it.\u201d <\/strong>This refers back to a data page from House of X<\/em> #1, which referenced Reed\u2019s inventions winding up in the hands of Damage Control in more general terms. Travel to the Negative Zone is a fairly standard Fantastic Four thing.<\/p>\n

Emma tells us that Devo wasn\u2019t just manipulated by Omega Sentinel but completely overwritten with a mind she can\u2019t control. (It\u2019s not really clear how she even knows that Omega Sentinel was responsible, but maybe there\u2019s something about his mind that makes that apparent.)<\/p>\n

PAGE 15.\u00a0<\/strong>Ms Marvel asks Dr Doom to send his mutants to help.<\/em><\/p>\n

We first saw Doom\u2019s Latverian mutants in issues #28-29, and as indicated in that story, Doom does ultimately send them to intervene, if only because he sees Orchis as trespassing on his turf.<\/p>\n

Doom is standing over a map with models of characters involved in the storyline, so evidently he\u2019s following it closely.<\/p>\n

PAGES 16-19. <\/strong>Slag, Volta and Nerium arrive to help.<\/em><\/p>\n

These are the same three who debuted in issue #28 (the rest of their team didn\u2019t appear until #29). Their appearance here, even if only to tie up a side quest, attempts to provide some pay-off to their arc.<\/p>\n

PAGES 20-21.\u00a0<\/strong>Cyclops and Nimrod.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is a direct continuation of\u00a0Fall of the House of X\u00a0<\/em>#3, and basically an exercise in setting up the same cliffhanger for anyone simply reading this book.<\/p>\n

PAGE 22.\u00a0<\/strong>Trailers. The Krakoan reads SENTINEL CITY.<\/p>\n

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