X-Factor [04] : Swords of X chapter 2 review *spoilers*

[Glio]

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Jean and/or Cyclops

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It would be fucking hilarious if at the end of the fight Scott shows up with The Peak they just reactivated and fires Death Star style saying "This is my SWORD".

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[JB]

Pretty sure the only deaths will be either Gorgon, Doug, or Brian. The the least important characters in the cast. I assume Doug and Brian. Hickman loves Gorgon to much to keep him out of the books

Yikes, Doug is the hub of communication with Krakoa and most of the island's systems. Losing him would be a major issue.

[superjosh]

Did anyone else only count nine swords? There was no description for Magneto (assumed sword-holder from the silhouette image). (EDIT: I see it's being addressed a few posts before my post went up!)

I'm enjoying the progress of the XoS story a lot, but four issues into Leah's X-Factor and I am still not digging the dialogue. It's so heavy-handed and melodramatic. The way Erik yelled at Lorna. Lorna treating herself like a punching bag. Even Emma (although in character) sounded so juvenile.

The pacing and art didn't super match either. At first it seemed like the resurrected Rockslide was evil and going to attack. Then it just jumped to Xavier and the five discussing things. Also, the shot of all the Cerebro cradles made it seem like something way more serious was happening, and then it was just revealed that they went offline for a bit. Really disoriented storytelling.

[Soulsword323]

I was initially thinking this too, but then when you add up her own self-loathing, the fact that she watched someone so young die before her eyes, AND the shock that it was a permanent death it starts to make sense.

Yeah, I think it does end up making sense. A lot for Polaris to take in.

[Woozie]

Swordbearers who've not shown up post X of Swords solicits

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Storm Doug Gorgon(But Gorgon never shows in anything) Betsy Brian Apocalypse

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[Glio]

Yikes, Doug is the hub of communication with Krakoa and most of the island's systems. Losing him would be a major issue.

Considering that we have two covers of Doug being a nerd that they have to train because he doesn't know fencing and that in New Mutants we see Warlock without Doug...

Yeah, his casualty is potentially the most catastrophic for mutants. Especially since Krakoa will be furious if it loses contact with Arakko and they will have no way of communicating with it.

[superjosh]

also, the Roma and Merlin data pages didn't fit into the story at all. Really weird story structure even though the "meat" of the story was great.

[Woozie]

Did anyone else only count nine swords?

Wait, you're right. There's totally a sword missing

[Havok83]

Considering that we have two covers of Doug being a nerd that they have to train because he doesn't know fencing and that in New Mutants we see Warlock without Doug...

Yeah, his casualty is potentially the most catastrophic for mutants. Especially since Krakoa will be furious if it loses contact with Arakko and they will have no way of communicating with it.

This definitely challenges the resurection protocols. It may be unethical, but knowing that death may be permanent if it occurs in Otherworld, maybe they need to start cloning the 10 before the battle starts

[Glio]

This definitely challenges the resurection protocols. It may be unethical, but knowing that death may be permanent if it occurs in Otherworld, maybe they need to start cloning the 10 before the battle starts

We know that there are "FORCE protocols" that allow cloning in exceptional cases, I wonder if that will be explored in X-Force.

[Askani's Flame]

I would gander that Lorna is feeling so upset as she was unable to save him, which likely goes back to being the survivor of the Genoshian assault and has triggered some PTSD.

[Woozie]

Actually, if they're counting both of Gorgon's swords then no, they got 10.

[Gigantor]

Considering that we have two covers of Doug being a nerd that they have to train because he doesn't know fencing and that in New Mutants we see Warlock without Doug...

Yeah, his casualty is potentially the most catastrophic for mutants. Especially since Krakoa will be furious if it loses contact with Arakko and they will have no way of communicating with it.

That’s why Doug is perfect to die. He was barely in the new mutants book so no book NEEDS him but him dying creates conflict, plus we will probably get crazy evil “new” Doug who wants to join the phalanx or something. Who knows? Though technically they could kill any character and the ones we see going forward are the reboot versions of them

[cranger]

The issue isn't dying in another universe, though realistically that should technically make your first resurrection a failure. It's the feedback loop that wipes all your back ups which I presume is Otherworld exclusive.

At this point it is whatever they want things to be when the story suits it, but if we can trust Hickman gave us the rules and has not changed them, it possible nothing odd about Otherworld is happening, but maybe it specifically has to do with Rockslide and how Summoner killed him (or did not kill him).

[Tunasammiches]

also, the Roma and Merlin data pages didn't fit into the story at all. Really weird story structure even though the "meat" of the story was great.

those seem like setup pages for things they're gonna show us later. I'm seeing a pattern where these fact pages seem to be overviews or tee-up previews of what the narrative will be going into detail next.