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Marauders (2022) (Single Issues)
Marauders (2022-2023) #6
EVEN ODDS OF DESTRUCTION -AN A.X.E. TIE-IN! The Progenitor has risen! Now he visits each and every one of us, and we're given a chance to justify our lives. Sounds heavy, right? The Marauders agree! Who proved their right to life? Who failed? And if we survive, just how excited is Orchis for a chance to scapegoat mutants for Earth's brush with destruction? All this...and Detective Lockheed!
25 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 7, 2022
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September 26, 2022
This judgment bs is so lame.
September 8, 2022
A slight improvement on the previous issues in this volume of Marauders. The artwork is slightly better. Less anime. And the storyline tried harder to hit some emotionally satisfying notes. The problem, of course, was that the "story" was basically just a series of vignettes in which each cast member made a declarative "I am" statement.
This is a tie-in to the A.X.E. storyline about everyone on the planet getting judged. I hate this damn event. The criteria by which people are getting judged is arbitrary and inconsistent. Is this utilitarianism or what? This issue repeatedly said characters had to justify their right to live. But justify based on what? Are you supposed to prove how altruistic you are, or is it about proving what a deadly threat you are? Is it about proving how great a sycophantic worshiper you would be to this resurrected Celestial acting like a god?
Birdy, the telepathic Sabretooth sidekick character from the 90s, is back. This whole issue just follows her meeting with each character in their astral plane, talking through their immediate issues. ... And that's it. There isn't much more in the way of plot.
This team now has something like 4 telepaths on it. Birdy, Somnus, Cassandra Nova, and Kwannon. For some reason characters keep acting like each one's telepathy is somehow new and novel and different from everyone else's. ... Ok. I guess I buy that they have different strengths (Birdy is good at blending empathy with telepathy to make people feel better; Somnus is good at time dilation in elaborate telepathic fantasy worlds). But, whatever.
The slight improvement in quality only gets this issue a 2-star rating instead of a 1-star rating. I need this title cancelled soon.
Also, characters are now taking for granted that mutants from the future can be resurrected, because of the story abomination that was The Trial of Magneto. So we have The Theater of Pain from 2099 making a brief appearance here, and Bishop discusses resurrecting his partners he knew from the future. ... Is anyone else going to acknowledge how insane this concept is?
ALL futures are possible futures. So there is one "What If...?" reality where Colossus married Darkstar and had a little girl he named after his sister, Illyana. Then there are multiple realities where Colossus married Kitty Pryde and they had a small assortment of possible children. Are ALL of those possible children available to be resurrected, then? And do the writers understand how easy it is for people to have slightly different children just because a different sperm cell happened to unite with an egg, in a slightly different reality?
It's not just that every current mutant on Krakoa has thousands of potential children, depending upon who they potentially could hook up with, and which month they choose to have unprotected sex, or even which position they take during sex. Once you realize that each of those thousands of children have their own thousands of possible children, some of them marrying obscure possible children and having even more obscure and unlikely grandchildren.
Imagine a scenario in which Rogue and Andreas Strucker have a daughter together. And then that daughter marries the son of Wrench and Georgianna from the Thunderriders. The resulting child from that highly unlikely union is theoretically available to be resurrected now, right? Do writers realize that within just two generations we're dealing with completely different characters no one has ever heard of?
There should now be an infinite supply of potential mutants to resurrect.
This is a tie-in to the A.X.E. storyline about everyone on the planet getting judged. I hate this damn event. The criteria by which people are getting judged is arbitrary and inconsistent. Is this utilitarianism or what? This issue repeatedly said characters had to justify their right to live. But justify based on what? Are you supposed to prove how altruistic you are, or is it about proving what a deadly threat you are? Is it about proving how great a sycophantic worshiper you would be to this resurrected Celestial acting like a god?
Birdy, the telepathic Sabretooth sidekick character from the 90s, is back. This whole issue just follows her meeting with each character in their astral plane, talking through their immediate issues. ... And that's it. There isn't much more in the way of plot.
This team now has something like 4 telepaths on it. Birdy, Somnus, Cassandra Nova, and Kwannon. For some reason characters keep acting like each one's telepathy is somehow new and novel and different from everyone else's. ... Ok. I guess I buy that they have different strengths (Birdy is good at blending empathy with telepathy to make people feel better; Somnus is good at time dilation in elaborate telepathic fantasy worlds). But, whatever.
The slight improvement in quality only gets this issue a 2-star rating instead of a 1-star rating. I need this title cancelled soon.
Also, characters are now taking for granted that mutants from the future can be resurrected, because of the story abomination that was The Trial of Magneto. So we have The Theater of Pain from 2099 making a brief appearance here, and Bishop discusses resurrecting his partners he knew from the future. ... Is anyone else going to acknowledge how insane this concept is?
ALL futures are possible futures. So there is one "What If...?" reality where Colossus married Darkstar and had a little girl he named after his sister, Illyana. Then there are multiple realities where Colossus married Kitty Pryde and they had a small assortment of possible children. Are ALL of those possible children available to be resurrected, then? And do the writers understand how easy it is for people to have slightly different children just because a different sperm cell happened to unite with an egg, in a slightly different reality?
It's not just that every current mutant on Krakoa has thousands of potential children, depending upon who they potentially could hook up with, and which month they choose to have unprotected sex, or even which position they take during sex. Once you realize that each of those thousands of children have their own thousands of possible children, some of them marrying obscure possible children and having even more obscure and unlikely grandchildren.
Imagine a scenario in which Rogue and Andreas Strucker have a daughter together. And then that daughter marries the son of Wrench and Georgianna from the Thunderriders. The resulting child from that highly unlikely union is theoretically available to be resurrected now, right? Do writers realize that within just two generations we're dealing with completely different characters no one has ever heard of?
There should now be an infinite supply of potential mutants to resurrect.
October 29, 2022
Man, I can't quite put my finger on it but something about this run just feels flat
December 19, 2024
Another useless tie in for AXE. Only thing it had going for it was the tidbit at the end which ties into the arc before the crossover.
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