Marauders #22 Spoilers and Review

[ExodusCloak]

I have to say I was a little bit caught off guard by the twist towards the end. This issue is broken down into two stories. It starts off the same way with the world reeling from Planet Arrakoa, Emma is drowning her sorrows on a tropical island on Earth and communicating with the Stepford Cuckoos who are out partying on Mars/Planet Arrakoa.

The QC have a meeting about the fallout, however Xavier wants a word about Lourdes with Emma.

Shaw actually had a good idea, his plan was to create a mutant circuit to go back in time with Cerebra and record mutants brainwaves prior to their demise. So actually a very good idea and one I'd like to see happen. Thunderbird can live again.

Cut to that Kessington girl...she's not a Frost. Which is great but I was more interested in the Lourdes story. In short she is the way she is because of trauma.

Anyway cut to Emma having to break the news to Shaw about Lourdes. Lourdes is not dead. We have a retelling of the Classic X-Men story with a twist. Emma offers her telepathic services to Fisk to help hide Lourdes from Shaw. So I wonder who she had to fix for Wilson Fisk. She said they were friends, so basically Emma is now friends with nearly every business person in the MU.

Anyway I won't go in to too much detail but the issue was quite enjoyable. The art at the start was gorgeous, the colouring for the flashback was trying to mimic the Classic X-Men story but I don't know if they managed to quite pull it off.

Forge & the Captains have an idea for a circuit against Nimrod so they have a bunch of mutants pushed up the list for ressurection. So Leland and Shinobi are part of this circuit.

Over all I give it an 8.5/10

Really enjoyed it, loved that Emma has really grown as a person. I have to say I'm loving Marauders.

[Agatha's Ghost]

I suppose from the next issue glimpse that Tempo will be a member of the circuit.

[Alex.]

Emma plot:
This one was interesting. Emma didn't agree to help Lourdes at first and only did it when it could be used to further her agenda. It was higlighted that it wasn't the way she wanted help, so Emma did it by herself.

Cuckoos plot:
This one seems like a way of showing how Emma has changed and is actually helping women, which is a good nod to the first issue of Marauders. The Cuckoos put her advise into use but they fucked up. It seems they've flipped some switches in Wilhelmina's mind to fix her but instead it just brought back some deep scars of her spoilers:

pedo dad

end of spoilers. In the end they're going to London to confront the brat's dad.


Interesting book. The recklessness of the Cuckoos messing with others' minds to fix them is something new and opposite to what they used to do (like telling Jean about Emma and Scott's affair, giving some kids nightmares just for entertainment or attacking Laura with her fears). I wonder if they could just make the kid forget about what her dad did to her.

About Wilhelmina, I think Aaron's take was a little bit more interesting and it bothers me that women aren't usually portraid as just bad, but they MUST have a reason to be the way they are (see Madelyne, Emma and Cruela as examples). She was a little bit more interesting as the rich psycho girl.

The art was gorgeous, and I ejoyed it a lot, including the flashback scenes.

Overall it's a 9/10.

[Dipter]

Kingpin’s Into the Spiderverse body needs to be the standard from now on

[jwatson]

Another strong issue. The king Pin hook i found infinitely intriguing, at first i thought they were going to give a twist and say she was Fisk wife this whole time but I really want to find out where Lorders is right now. Really enjoyed the cuckoos here and they sounded like a hive mind or rather a computer processing thoughts. Emma once again was the highlight here. Shaw is up and about and ready to cause trouble again. And Duggan did a great job of making me feel sympathetic for him in an unsympathetic situation.

9/10 from me.

[Drexelhand]

I never knew Sebastian Shaw was abusive to Lourdes, we knew he was to Shinobi's mother if I recall, but it makes sense. He is an asshole.

[JB]

Another strong issue. The king Pin hook i found infinitely intriguing, at first i thought they were going to give a twist and say she was Fisk wife this whole time but I really want to find out where Lorders is right now. Really enjoyed the cuckoos here and they sounded like a hive mind or rather a computer processing thoughts. Emma once again was the highlight here. Shaw is up and about and ready to cause trouble again. And Duggan did a great job of making me feel sympathetic for him in an unsympathetic situation.

9/10 from me.

I agree with all of this.
Both stories I found very intriguing and I hope we see Lourdes again. It would be a cool bonus if her new alias is someone we actually know in the MU.
I wasn't initially interested in anything having to do with Wilhelmina but I work in counseling and her story reversed that immediately. I like seeing the Cuckoos, while cleaning up what they did, trying to help her.