Art kinda sucked, "funeral issues" in general are meh.
Streetwear detective Ororo was fun looking
HOPING Kate still has her rebel side after this rebirth. Otherwise... this book has no purpose anymore.
Making Shaw such a caricature is a definite choice. Not a good one.
Emma being this weepy is also a choice, but we saw that earlier. I liked it better when we theorized Emma was manipulating Kate for other agenda back in issue 1.
Need this book to get refocused on HELLFIRE and how Kate is questioning herself and finding things in a new changed world.
I also think the way they "explained" her rebirth was kinda, handwavey and made the earlier suspense seem lame.
Still need to find out why she can't use Krakoan Gates.
Forget the old ways - Krakoa is god.
OBEY
Happy to have Kitty back but I agree that expected more from the mystery surrounding the fact that she cannot be resurrected in Krakoa.
Well it looks like Sabretooth will get company in the depths of Krakoa perhaps? You never know with Emma.
I missed some important faces in Kitty's life at the funeral but in general most of the characters closest to her were present.
Several humans around the world have benefited from the medicines produced in Krakoa saving lives.It is good to remind those who criticize Xavier's and Krakoa methods that the exchange works on both sides.
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Part of the reason he killed her was because she found the power-dampening tech on the ship she commandeered, which would have linked him to Pierce and Zhao, who orchestrated the attack on Shinobi and the mutant children. So perhaps killing Kitty is not a crime but I'm sure the council wouldn't be happy to find out he was working with the likes of Hate-Monger and X-Cutioner.
They were all bank-rolled by Verendi, so Shaw is also involved with poisonous medicine almost going out to the humans of the world, causing a major international incident.
He's fucked.
"Danielle... I intend to do something rash and violent." - Betsy Braddock
Krakoa, Arakko, and Otherworld forever!
Hmm...this issue was really underwhelming. Duggan's done a good job of introducing really interesting elements, but the payoff or the details seem to kind of squander the glory of the moment. Certainly not a bad issue, but just disappointed.
There were a lot of good moments, but the conclusion to the "poisoned medicine" storyline was kinda anti-climactic. Duggan kept reminding us that the issue needed to be dealt with, so I was expecting it to turn into some kind of side-story (ideally involving the under-used characters, like Bishop, Iceman and Pyro) rushing to switch out the medicine in time. Instead it just got taken care of off panel. On the other hand, it was nice to see Delores in person, and for Storm to get a scene to herself while also looking amazing.
Hmmm, agreeing with what others have said in that I kind of expected something more to this than a minor technicality. Just seems a tad implausible that it didn't occur to anyone to try assisting the hatching process after so many failed tries.
It was great to have such a major nod to Illyana and Rachel as important figures in Kate's life, but it seemed especially bizarre to have Piotr missing entirely from the crowd considering their long history and near marriage.
The reason behind the number 18 was a cool nod - I just wish it would have been explained on panel for those not familiar with the significance.
Nice to see some human allies in this issue.
Overall I enjoyed it and it's probably still the top X-book for me this week.
I don't think this will end the way people think it will, i mean they built up Shaw as having gone to careful planning and execution of this attack...so who is to say he doesn't have a contingencies in place for her coming back or any retaliation for his actions?
The best theory I’ve heard is that Shaw is purposely gonna get himself sent to the Pit to convince Shinobi that he was a victim of the Queens’ scheming.
Because otherwise... shooting a mutant in broad daylight when you’re a citizen of a country with hundreds of telepaths and time travellers and chronoskimmers and whatnot... ain’t it chief. And he only killed Kate on a hunch that she wasn’t a real mutant.
Its been a while, so the details are fuzzy for me. What proof does she have that he supplied the power dampening tech on that ship, or was financing the others? Seems like the kind of thing he could easily lie about. It would be kind of bizarre for the threat of an international incident to be his downfall, when Beast is right around the corner.
Maybe the gates don't work for her for the same reason the resurrections didn't initially- maybe her body is instinctively trying to phase as she enters, and her powers cause it to clash with the Krakoa tech. Of course, that still leaves the reason why her powers don't work on Krakoa a mystery.