Marauders Annual review *spoilers*

[sensormellow]

Somnus with a kink lol

PSYLOCKE! We missed you!

Loved this issue. I love assembling the team montages.

[Vegeta]

Regarding the Hellfire brats, I feel they should have been traded off to be Champions villains in exchange for something

Or they can just have them. No trade necessary.

[RamaBird]

The Somnus scene did come off forced but hey still willing to give the character a try. Not very familiar with him...

Are the Champions still around?

[Huntsman Spider]

The Somnus scene did come off forced but hey still willing to give the character a try. Not very familiar with him...

Are the Champions still around?

Their series ended near the end of last year, but I'm pretty sure they'll get a new run sooner or later. In the meantime, they didn't disband, so . . .

[KimberlyP]

I really enjoyed this and Orlando is definitely lurking on this board. LOL! I liked the way Tempo and Psylocke worked together with their powers, and Brimstone Love was great.

The ending has me intrigued and definitely sets the tone for the series. The mystery box with the map of Krakoa inside is very interesting.



You and me both.

He is hot. More more more

[Kurolegacy]

Same. It's been needed to be addressed.

Would be great though if they didn’t only bring that up as a strawman for those who are off put by the lack of coexistence angle sans the X-Men book.

[loke13]

Gotta say this was a really strong first issue. Orlando is definitely better at juggling and utilizing the cast than Duggan was.

[KimberlyP]

Love how queer this team is, and finally Tempo is confirmed queer in 616. We are being FED. Only team members who haven’t exhibited queerness in the past are Bishop and Aurora, lets change that

[loke13]

Love how queer this team is, and finally Tempo is confirmed queer in 616. We are being FED. Only team members who haven’t exhibited queerness in the past are Bishop and Aurora, lets change that

Same. With X-Factor gone I need my dose of queerness in comics. When was Bishop shown to be queer?

[KimberlyP]

Same. With X-Factor gone I need my dose of queerness in comics. When was Bishop shown to be queer?

Bishop has never been shown to be queer.
I would like to see it. Does it make sense with past depictions? Not at all. But if I was a straight person on Krakoa who could die a million times and be reborn I’d think “Yeah lets try anything once why tf not?”

[Thundershot]

Brimstone Love is a total psychopath who preys on the weak willed…

…but he does have a point.

Charles won’t even let his own stepbrother, who has been an X-Man during several runs, live on Krakoa… What does that say for all of the human allies? Wait, if Lockheed and Warlock can live there, why not another alien like Longshot or Kid Gladiator or Warbird?

Though Cain is apparently going to be in Kurt’s book, so maybe it’ll get addressed.

Also… When was the last time Iceman was shown powered down? He spends most of his time in his ice form, even when it would seem to be inconvenient.

[king of hybrids]

The thing, and this isn’t so much Hickman/Krakoan era writers as it is a lasting effect of Morrison; is that as far as in-universe understanding of mutantcy (both from Krakoa to ORCHIS) is that, the reality that Xavier was nearly as armchair in his ideology as Trask was his programming aside, human-mutant coexistence was only ever supposed to be temporary as there was a peaceful transfer of power from Sapien to superior and then for humans to quietly step into that good night as the e-gene renders non x-gene carriers sterile. All Hickman added was that humans stole the past too in addition to having no future

Any Human allies/advocates of the mutants went into/should have gone into this thing in the full knowledge that they don’t matter, that sapiens don’t really have a future, that mutants are the future. Krakoa is far from perfect, but a stronghold from which to be safe from constant genocides and peacefully coexist(wait out) with the humans is something they should welcome, not be pissy because they didn’t get told how great they are

That said there’s a fair bit of strawmanning in this here annual

[jwatson]

See i kind of feel like if i didn't know Brimstone Love was out here willing to get people killed or let them die i would be that person that somehow worked with him and every break somehow we gravitated towards each other and i would listen to him have all these complaints about human/mutant/dream and at first would be rolling my eyes in my head but still engaging him and listening and trying to get him to ask himself contextual questions which Brimstone actually seems smart enough to get and then i would eventually look forward to the days we work together and the breaks, and the crazy theories and go to krakoa together eventually. lol It's weird but i really am entertained by Brimstone and not in a oh he's just a bad dude sort of way.

[jwatson]

LMAO now i just imagined once we got there and he stormed into the quiet council saying krakoa sucks because his friend couldn't be there etc. etc they would be like "Brimstone... no one ever said mutants can't invite their human friends, why else would be program the gates as an accompanying system, all one had to do was notify." and he be all like "Yeah! we'll i'm throwing a damn party." LMAO. i need some sleep.

[BobbysWorld]

This is probably a minor nitpick, but because Orlando DOES know his X-lore so well in most respects, I admit to being a tad disappointed that he had a Morlock, Carver, voicing the same stuff writers have had Morlocks voicing about other mutants for decades, forgetting their origins.....

Like, its just kinda gah that writers always have Morlocks talk about how they're rejects even among mutant society for being the undesirables, not 'pretty mutants' etc....

Which not only ignores that like, mutants like Glob Herman have been mainstays among the X-Men and their communities for a looooong time, but more than that.....

The Morlocks were NOT originally a collection of mutants who banded together because they were the ugly, unwanted mutants. Most of their 'ugly appearances' are the result of MASQUE'S INITIATION of them, NOT their own mutations! Just like he gave Callisto tentacles for a number of years, that had nothing to do with her original powerset. The Morlocks in their earliest appearances DELIBERATELY altered themselves to fall outside the generally accepted standards of beauty or humanity, as symbols of THEIR rejection of humanity and desire to make a culture and community of their own that didn't cater to humanity's priorities or general mindsets. Like, one of the key reasons Skids stood out among the original Morlocks was that yes, she was one of the 'pretty mutants' - but her fellow Morlocks didn't RESENT her for that, hell, they tended to ostracize her because she COULDN'T embody the willful rejection of human norms that the rest of them embraced....because her force field power meant that Masque physically couldn't lay his hands on her and make changes to her body and appearance the way he did the rest of them.

And when the Morlock Massacre happened, it wasn't because Morlocks were an eyesore or anything like some writers have characterized them as being after the fact.....Sinister had the original Marauders wipe them out not because he gave a **** what they looked like, but because he'd noted that their powers showed signs of being meddled with or experimented on with techniques he recognized from his own work, and he was like.....offended because he's literally just like that. It was implied for a long time that the experimentation had something to do with Apocalypse, whose technology and experiments were the basis of most of Sinister's own science and techniques.....with Apocalypse clearly having had some connection to or interest in the Morlocks at some point, given that his Horseman Famine was originally a Morlock, and later he made Caliban a Horseman too (and that alone should be a HUGE CLUE for most writers that they're looking at the Morlocks all wrong - why would the very same writers who created BOTH the Morlocks AND Apocalypse, have the dude whose entire SPIEL is survival of the fittest and only uplifting the truly strong....like....pick a Morlock to be one of his iconic vanguard if Morlocks were actually supposed to be viewed as the dregs of mutant society by other mutants?)

And of course then ultimately after the original Age of Apocalypse event, they revealed that Dark Beast from that reality had wound up in 616 twenty years in the past and he'd been the one to experiment on the Morlocks with techniques he'd learned from the AOA Sinister. But the point remains. Morlocks were never ostracized by the rest of mutants for not being on the same level as the 'pretty, powerful mutants.' Morlocks were originally the ones pointing out nah dudes, WE'RE rejecting YOU, on account of we think you're too preoccupied with trying to be accepted and respected by humanity and we don't vibe with that.

But my point just being.....there's a definite irony in people attempting to cite Morlocks as proof of Krakoa's flaws by saying Krakoa doesn't want them and they're not pretty or powerful or useful enough to be accepted there, when not only are there already tons of mutants on Krakoa who put the lie to that.....the bigger irony is that the Morlocks, rather than being the lowest hierarchy of mutantdom, were originally depicted as the spiritual pre-cursors of the modern Krakoa, mutants who weren't outcast by society, but who voluntarily REMOVED THEMSELVES from society, mutants who weren't FORCED to live in the dark because they were hideous, but rather used a single mutant's power - Masque - to MAKE themselves visible standouts from human society who said they'd rather be what humans judged as hideous, and live where humans wouldn't deign to, than live among humans. And like, special irony shout-out to the fact that most Morlocks alive today would have had to be resurrected because of the Morlock Massacre, and since many of their inhuman or hideous appearances WEREN'T part of their own powersets and surface level changes made by Masque, they shouldn't even have been resurrected looking that way and would have had to seek Masque out to make those changes to them again. Actual inhuman appearing Morlocks like Tommy and Scaleface were RARE in the original generation of Morlocks, and other than the changes made by Masque, most of the nonhuman appearing Morlocks are mutants who only migrated to the tunnels and joined the community because they'd HEARD of the Morlocks' reputation and rejection of human standards of beauty and normalcy.

Just saying, its funny and a tad disappointing to see Morlocks written as being anti-Krakoa because they claim they're a source of shame because the original Morlocks were literally PROUD of being Morlocks and tried to build a society in directions deliberately counter to human norms, as like....the entire POINT of removing themselves from human communities. If anything, the Morlocks should be taking POINT in a lot of the society-building happening on Krakoa and be like 'glad to see the rest of you finally caught up with what we were saying from day one, here, this is how its done.'