I like that this issue read like a direct continuance of issue 20. Looking ahead, with the Marauders out in space I hope we get a reveal with regards to Emma's spaceship.
I like that this issue read like a direct continuance of issue 20. Looking ahead, with the Marauders out in space I hope we get a reveal with regards to Emma's spaceship.
Lord Ewing *Praise His name! Uplift Him in song!* Your divine works will be remembered and glorified in worship for all eternity. Amen!
I also felt that way about the "poisoned medicine" subplot in the book. We get a couple of reminders, as Delores (?), the X-Desk human ally tries to frantically to warn the Marauders. I was expecting some major repercussions, or at least a side story in which the character have to recover and replace the poisoned meds. (Maybe that would have actually given Bishop, Iceman and Pyro something to do.) But then Storm suddenly shows up and says, "Never mind, we took care of it (off-panel)." Maybe the point of that story was just introducing and developing the character of Delores? But it still felt like a let-down.
There are honestly some times when it seems like plots and character development is just happening in the background, and every now and then Duggan will go back to it, but it feels abrupt because it hasn't really been developed in the story. Like in the first few issues, we see Iceman and Pyro being vaguely friendly with each other, and chatting in the background. Then they don't interact at all for at least 10 issues, and in issue 20 they are suddenly good buddies who are calling themselves "The Two" and making naughty fire-and-ice sculptures together. And hey, that's great, but it would have been nice to see more of that relationship actually developing on-panel.
I guess Duggan just has a lot of balls in the air, and some of them are getting dropped. I'm still holding out hope that he'll eventually go back to at least Shinobi's story, since he seems to be treating him sympathetically.
You're right of course, and Banshee has always been written as such a terrible caricature of pre conceived ideas of what Americans think Ireland is. It's why I was so excited by the possibility of X-Men Green a while back by Declan Shalvey, and his variant cover for an issue a few years back with Sean flying past the Cliffs of Moher. There have been times in the past where he's been written slightly more sympathetically. But, man, the way his accent is always written is just so bad. I'm really hoping he's going to be properly written over the next few months.