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Zack & Dave cover your questions, poll results, and recap the Marvel Comics of 1986 parts 3 & 4!

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Zack and Dave read & discuss every single issue of Marvel’s Ultimate Universe! This episode Ultimates launches, and more from Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate X-Men!

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* How much can Doc Ock bench?

On this episode we cover the following issues (all available via Marvel Unlimited):

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This week on Creannotators, I talked with artist Leila Del Duca about Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed, her creator-owned work like Shutter and Afar, and the process of working on a DC graphic novel compared to monthly ongoing comics.

On Comic Book Herald’s ‘Creannotators’ I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. Creannotators is an audio/visual annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics!

Leila’s latest graphic novel, Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed, is a part of DC’s young adult graphic novel series, looking at a 16 year old Wonder Woman as she leaves Themyscira for the first time and tackles issues likes immigration, refugees, and child trafficking (among others) in her first visit to the world of humans.

You can find Leila’s creator interviews via the Helioscope PDX channel.

Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed Is:

Writer: Laurie Hals Anderson

Artist: Leila Del Duca

Colors: Kelly Fitzpatrick

Letters: Saida Temofonte

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Marvel comics of 1986. Daredevil Born Again! Big Daddy Kingpin! Gruenwald Cap!

On this episode we cover the following issues (all available via Marvel Unlimited):

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I was caught by surprise recently when Krakin’ Krakoa listener Xavier D pointed out the children sitting around Krakoa campfires led by longtime X-Men villain Exodus look like kid versions of omega level mutants. The more I’ve thought about the observation, the more potential I find, and now I’m convinced Hickman’s X-Men is secretly telling us exactly what Krakoa’s plans are for Omega Level Mutants.

Today I’ll answer:

In X-Men #7, we are introduced to Exodus (one of the 12 members of the Krakoan council) and his very cultish campfire stories with Krakoa’s youth. It’s actually not the first time we’ve seen Exodus telling kids stories around a campfire (there’s a panel in House of X #6), but the details begin to matter here.

Exodus takes on the role of teaching these children about the Krakoan way of life, but as a literal former Crusader, he naturally does so with zealotry, pomp and unwavering conviction. Whether you but it or not, he’s a minister of propaganda, indoctrinating these kids into what it means to be Krakoan, and to be mutant.

Again in X-Men #11, we see Exodus back at the campfire, with many of the same children. And this is the point when the repetition of the same kids, and Hickman’s use of this framing device begins to raise a series of questions. Now, the simplest answer here is just that Exodus and these mutant kids is a way to show another aspect of Krakoan life, to breath some of the culture into comics that are otherwise focused elsewhere.

Accepting that possibility, though, it feels like way too big of a coincidence to me that the children – especially the child with a wee pink mohawk and glasses – look like omega level mutants we already know. If Leinil Francis Yu and company were designing new mutant kids, they could make them look like literally anything. So the fact that I’m able to make these connections makes me wonder if that’s absolutely intentional and meant to tell us what’s really going on here.

Before I run some side by sides to consider which Omegas might be involved, here’s what we know about Omega Level mutants in the Hickman X-Men era, and the full list of who we can consider.

It’s the language in the Omega Protocol that really catches my eye in retrospect too. “All efforts are to be expended in order to secure the future of the state.” Compare that to the common refrain that “children are the future” and you can see the foundation laid for Krakoan protocols that would support creating and rearing versions of omega level mutants, perhaps even starting as children.

So who are the kids we see, and how do they compare to their omega level counterparts?

Again, we have two real visions of these kids, in X-Men #7 and X-Men #11, and only three of the children appear with any real frequency. So yes, I’m definitely stretching a bit in spots to make this theory fit, and I think it’s important to caveat throughout that some of these kids could not fall into the “omega babies” category, and maybe they’re not even supposed to. Alternatively, and I’ll talk about this as well, but we also should consider the very real possibility of Baby Chimeras via Mister Sinister, and the fact that this would distort the kids’ looks as well.

Literal Kid Omega definitely feels like the strongest argument for omega level kids on the island. The hair, the glasses, the style, it all certainly brings to mind a young Quentin Quire. While the elder Q is off getting killed Kenny style every single issue of X-Force could baby Q be in training on Krakoa?

Of course if this all turns out to not be the case, I also think it’s conceivable that the kids of Krakoa would hold up Omega Level mutants as their celebrities. This could explain dressing like poor Quentin, right down to the flathawk.

After Quentin, we pretty quickly get into wildly speculative territory, but with some solid clues. There are only three women among the Omega Level list, so our options are Jean Grey, Hope Summers, and Ororo Monroe. The young girl arguably looks a bit like either Jean or Hope, too!

Jean Grey is an omega level telepath and Hope Summers is omega level at power manipulation.

The most interesting connection for this possible Jean / Hope version, though, is to Mister Sinister. The prominent circle on the girl’s forehead doesn’t really match with Jean or Hope, but it is reminiscent of what we saw in Giant-Size Fantomex, in the very opening pages of the issue.

The forehead circle and diamond are used to denote clones created in a Weapon Plus lab, and as many Krakin’ Krakoa listeners observed in that Fantomex issue, the diamond immediately signifies the presence and involvement of Mister Sinister. To be clear, I’m now theorizing based on a theory, or as I like to call it, we’ve now entered the realm of theory squared.

So why does it matter to connect all of this to Mister Sinister? For starters, we’re talking about cloned replicants of mutants, so there’s no pretending he’s not involved. If it’s Jean, we also know Sinister has had a particular interest in the Summers / Grey bloodline for a long time.

It makes a lot of sense to me that Professor X in particular would want to initiate these protocols sooner. Remember, he and Magneto are the ones who bring in Sinister so early (against Moira’s better judgment), and bring to Moira’s attention that in this lifeline Sinsiter’s first chimera is brought to fruition decades earlier, and it’s injecting himself with John Proudstar’s DNA.

To reiterate, the exact look of the kids here might not be that telling, or really demand a 1×1 match. And that’s because of the Chimera mash-up potential.

The issues where these children appear all have potential clues about this. For example, in X-Men #7, Kurt and Scott have a conversation about mutants wanting to be resurrected with someone else’s powers, with omega level Magneto mentioned as a possibility. Nightcrawler says “Why stop there? Why not combine two? Why not add a third to the mix?” And Cyclops responds “Like I said, it’s going to be a problem.”

Another clue that this might matter more than stated, is the inclusion of an Omega Level Mutants section of the Quorum Captain’s memo that is almost entirely redacted. Why even include that here?

From the Omega Protocols: “It is believed that a greater dynamo is possible through collective means.” This war council section is talking about the possibility of combining mutant combat techniques, and Omega Level combinations would be the most powerful type of combination they could consider. Obviously a possible Chimera mix of two omega level powersets is the ultimate efficiency towards that end.

Hopping back for a moment to consider the other children we do get to see, in order of how likely the comparison holds up.

Proteus – omega level reality manipulation / psionic

Iceman Temperature manipulation – negative

I’ll admit my first thought with the black child with glowing eyes was Mister M, but I actually re-read District X recently and it turns out my dude Absalom is suuuuper white.

So literally our only black omega level is Storm, which means we’re considering Short haired Ororo Monroe? Now, the lit up eyes actually do make this interesting, although Storm’s hair has historically also been very very white, even as a child.

I don’t expect it’s necessarily a part of the narrative here, but the child could also bring to mind Kymera – yes, literally named Kymera – the alternate Earth child of Storm and T’Challa from the Bendis written Battle of The Atom.

The most vexing child has some marks on his face that I can’t really fit to any of the known omega levels. The most probable guess for me is Elixir.

If you have theories on how this kid might fit, definitely let me know in the comments.

If we then take it as a very real possibility that Exodus is training clones of Omega Level mutants as children… what are the relevant questions?

He’s Omega Level himself, and without question one of the most fervent believers in mutant superiority. I do think it’s interesting to keep in mind that narratives told by Exodus are soaked in his truth which tends to fall short of a balanced perspective. Things like Magneto “hero of Empyre” from X-Men #11 could actually play out differently in reality than in Exodus’ fable. The Scarlet Witch demonizing as a representation of humanity.

Exodus is definitely a good fit for this role, full of the mutant religion bombast and absolute lack of doubt to turn these omega Kids into the Krakoan loyalists the island needs.

We don’t really see schooling taking place elsewhere – I actually think a Wolverine and the X-Men style book would go a long way in the Krakoa era – but I don’t really think Exodus is straight up in charge of education. My guess would be he’s leading these specific omega kids, like a Boy Scout leader, through his own special blend of unflinching belief. Actually a better analogy is probably a Sunday School teacher.

When is this happening? It’s worth considering – truly with so many moments that we’ve seen in the pages of th Hickman written X-Men so far – that the timing of the events, and even where it fits into Moira’s lifelines is up in the air. There’s a deliberately non-linear approach to these pieces of story and given that we’ve already seen Hickman pull this trick in Powers of X, I think it’s fair game to at least consider the possibility.

The only real context clue we’re given is in X-Men #7 when Cyclops and Kurt walk by the conversation on their way to Krakoa’s first Crucible.

This also potentially answers the “who knows about this?” with Cylcops and Kurt walking right by Exodus and the kids. Unless we’re in for some real chronal whiplash – and I’m not ruling it out – this suggests the Exodus Omega Club is in place on Krakoa quite early in the new nation’s life.

I’m not ruling out the idea that Exodus and the kids are in some sort of holographic training either, and that the visual of Kurt and Cyclops isn’t literally happening in front of them. They’re reviewing an event after the fact.

I think it makes an infinite amount of sense that Krakoa would already be building up an army of omega level mutants. The only consideration that might hold them back is the ability to do so somewhat safely. Consider threats like Child of the Vault, with an ability to manufacture threats at a rate mutant procreation probably can’t keep up with (despite the best intentions of the horniest X-Men fans). Or the ultimate threat of the Phalanx. Make more mutants should be something we as readers take more literally.

Throughout the Dawn of X, Krakoa has been far too open to attack, and failure. I’m interested in ideas that we’re less exposed to in the narrative that actually display more forward thinking.

Kids, though? Why like this?

Before it was on this seemingly eternal hiatus, Children of the Atom #1 was a “red issue.” It’s my theory that these connections would be / will be present in that narrative whenever it reaches our eyes!

What do you think of this theory? Let me know in the comments

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This week on Creannotators, I talked with artist Gisele Lagace about her work on the Image Comics series Exorsisters, her creator-owned webcomics careers, and the benefits of funding comics through Kickstarter.

On Comic Book Herald’s ‘Creannotators’ I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. Creannotators is an audio/visual annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics!

Exorsisters is the story of two “sisters” with a connection to hell, demons, and a business helping people out with those pesky exorcisms they may need. It’s a light-hearted supernatural look at heaven, hell, and family.

You can find more from Gisele’s webcomics at https://www.pixietrixcomix.com/.

Exorsisters Is:

Writer: Ian Boothsby

Artist: Gisele Lagace

Colors: Pete Pantazis

Letters: Taylor Esposito

Editor: Branwyn Bigglestone

Production: Carey Hall

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Marvel comics of 1986. X-Men: The Mutant Massacre.

On this episode we cover the following issues (all available via Marvel Unlimited):

My Marvelous Year – Marvel Year Twenty-Five: 1986 Pt. 4

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I get a fair amount of Krakin’ Krakoa sleuths sending me theories and links about X-Men, which is a really fun way to see that people are engaging with the comics and with my own obsessing about them. In response to my X-Men FCBD 2020 video review, and theories about X of Swords and the mysterious Swordbearers of Arakko, a listener sent me their theory on the “Classified” apparent leader of the bunch. I stored the link away for later, but now that I’ve looked into it, I’m 98% certain their theory is spot on – I can’t for the life of me determine exactly who sent me this, so I just want to be clear I take zero credit for unearthing this, and want to thank everyone who sends me wild X-men theories to get my wheels spinning!

In my X of Swords Chapter 1 video, I theorized that the Swordbearer since titled “Classified” (for the record, it would be hilarious if that’s just her Swordbearer name) was Storm. My rationale was first that the half visible personage of the character on the “Eight of Cups” is a black woman with all white eyes, but second that the text ties to Storm’s journey:

“That which was once the harmonious lifting of voices is now a mocking echo –then silence.”

In House of X #5, as we learn about Krakoa’s resurrection capabilities, it’s Storm who introduces the resurrected X-Men team to the island of mutants. This to me signifies her “harmonious lifting of voices,” literally leading the island in a chant of “Mutant!” with each new lineup introduction. We’ll know more for sure following Giant-Size X-Men: Storm #1, but the “mocking echo” potentially signifies the Children of the Vault corruption of Storm taking place across the “Giant-Size” specials.

A bunch of listeners have been asking why it’s a big deal that Storm has 30 days to live following Giant-Size X-Men: Jean Grey & Emma Frost, since mutants can just be resurrected. Aside from the flippant, it still probably sucks to die, I think the bigger problem here is that Storm is threatened with a kind of infective transformation *like* death, but not equal to it. It’s conceivable to me that the Vault’s infection could take root, and Storm could be transformed into an “enemy,” which given her commitment to the X-Men and mutantkind throughout her life, would be a kind of waking death.

Plus, given that the now fully revealed cover of Marauders #14 is an incredible Russell Dautermann and Matt Wilson depiction of Storm dancing with Death (of Apocalypse Horsing fame), it remains very possible that my gut instinct was correct and good ol’ “Classified” is, in fact, Ororo Monroe. Of course this could also just be a fun allusion to the adage “a dance with death,” but I’m sticking to my theory!

Like I said at the start, though, there’s a literally related theory that works even better! And it’s that “Classified” is Ashake!

If you’re not familiar with the character Ashake, don’t worry, I didn’t know her by name either. Ashake first appeared in New Mutants #32 in 1985, during a saga that found Magik and Mirage, aka Dani Moonstar, transported approximately 5,000 years into the past in Ancient Egypt (unrelated to this theory, but the issues through around #34 are pretty interesting for my renewed interest in Shadow King!).

For approximately 1 page and 1 panel, a mysterious sorceress named Ashake appears to the time-lost New Mutants and provides them sanctuary. Illyana and Dani are struck by how similar Ashake looks to their X-Men mentor Ororo Monroe, Storm, and Ashake is able to divine across time that Storm is a future descendant of hers! Wildly, this entire meeting is over in a flash, and Ashake helps Magik and Dani travel back to the future (naturally, they overshoot the present, and hijinX ensue).

This is an extraordinarily brief appearance, and would be even more of a deep cut reference if that’s all we had, but Ashake actually made a return 23 years later in the 4 issue 2008 miniseries Mystic: Arcana. This is where things *really* get compelling, in a flashback story written by Louise Simonson, set during the events of the aforementioned New Mutants #32.

Mystic Arcana: Magik #1 explores the full-fledged adventure Magik and Ashake experience in the past in an untold tale.

A couple thoughts right off the bat —

Tarot Cards play a major role throughout Mystic Arcana, which pretty seamlessly connects possible relevance to the Tarot based upcoming crossover event X of Swords. Indeed, the term Arcana is used in the “Major Arcana” which references the 22 trump cards (for our non card players, no, this has nothing to do with American politics, thank heavens) in a standard 78 card Tarot pack. Ashake quite literally makes her own Tarot cards with painted images on sheets of bone.

I also love how Simonson and the team are able to dig back into this all too brief moment from an issue of New Mutants nearly a quarter century in the past and give it new life, and breath new character into Ashake. It’s a cool reflection of some of comic book’s most unique properties, that these stories and universes are intertwining and connected across decades of real world time, and that something seemingly as tossed-aside as Storm’s long lost great great great great (etc) grandmother could be a major plot point in the future.

In Mystic Arcana, Illyana and Ashake are effectively forced to retrieve the Sword of Bone, one of the 4 cornerstones of creation, which eventually becomes the sword of Ashake, as her purity of will is the only capable of tapping into the swords energies. At the conclusion of the four part mini, Ashake returns to aid the forces of good, and then effectively goes her own way in the mystic dimensions, freeing her up to basically anything any storytellers would want to do next. Things like make her a focal point of X of Swords.

It’s a tangential detail, but I’ll also note that the second cornerstone of creation is found in the possession of Morgan Le Fey, who of course is currently being held experiment-prisoner by Apocalypse as he uses her magics to make connections from Otherworld to wherever we’re going in X of Swords.

Ok, so there are some pretty cool connections here, but a couple major questions remain. First let’s back up a second to look at what we know about the Swordbearers of Arakko. The most relevant info to date is that the first Horsemen of Apocalypse are among the Swordbearers, and until we knew there were 10 Swordbearers, it was my understanding that Apocalypse was primarily planning a rescue mission solely for these four most favored. While it’s not just this, a rescue mission for Apocalypse’s first horsemen is what I’ve been predicting X of Swords would be about literally since it was announced.

Intriguingly, while War and Death are named among the Swordbearers, Pestilence and Famine are not. Bei The Blood Moon looks like the character *could be* one of the 4 based on the limited images we’ve seen of the group, but the horsemen with an eyeball head is nowhere to be found. Whatever the reason – they haven’t survived the eternal war standing in the gap, the character designs have changed since launch, somebody told Hickman and company that Eye design was way too similar to Jason Aaron’s love for Orb – we know the first horsemen are a part of this group, but most of the group (up to 80%) is from *somewhere else*. So if “Classified” is Ashake, it’s likely she would know Apocalypse, but she is not necessarily one of his first horsemen.

For what it’s worth, we first meet Ashake during an era of BC Ancient Egypt which doubles as the approximate timeframe of the “Rise of Apocalypse” in civilization. So I haven’t seen any direct interaction, but it’s not impossible that they could have met and established a relationship during this time period. My gut feeling, though, is that Ashake / “Classified” is not one of the first horsemen. Given her ties to magic and mystical dimensions – Ashake worships the Egyptian goddess Ma’at, also known as Oshtur, the mother of Agamotoo (of “eye of” fame) – it seems quite believable that Ashake’s path would have taken her to the mystical realms beyond Otherworld that are converging upon everyone leading up to X of Swords.

It’s also tantalizing to consider that while Ashake may not be a ‘horsemen’ she could fall into a “Mother Akkaba” role similar to what we see Moira inhabiting in her ninth life as revealed in the pages of Powers of X.

Tying it all back to the character’s appearance on the Tarot ‘8 of Cups’ tease in the FCBD special, the ‘8 of Cups’ most common interpretation effectively boils down to a rousing rendtion of the Clash’s “Should I Stay or Should I go?” She’s been in limbo fighting for who knows how long, and now she has this choice.

A variation on the Ashake theory that I’m quite proud of is that the “Classified” lead swordbearer is in fact Storm, but from a different future. And this would be the sorceress Storm that Illyana thought she killed in Limbo during the Magik four issue miniseries.

The story of Magick, Illyana Rasputin, is timey-wimey and complicated, and I’ve recapped elsewhere on Krakin’ Krakoa, but the general idea is that a version of the X-Men that traveled to the realm of Limbo were stuck behind, including a version of Storm who grew older and became a fairly advanced sorceress. This Storm rescues Illyana from Belasco’s hellish clutches for a time, and teaches her – or attempts to teach her – some of the magic she knows to try and help Illyana. Ultimately, Illyana is kinda forced to kill Storm in order to prevent her soul from being taken by the Elder Gods.

BUT – Limbo is timey-wimey as hell, and it would be more than possible to bring Limbo-Storm back through magic-time shenanigans. This actually feels like a best of both worlds outcome because it ties in Limbo, Illyana, and Storm heavily to X of Swords. All of which, of course, helps pave the way to a good ol’ Inferno 2.0 event coming in 2021.

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I had the chance to talk with writer Kirsten Thompson about her Kickstarted ongoing comic book I Am Hexed! We talk about the book’s world of magic, how it fits topically in so much of 2020, and tips for Kickstarting comics.

Writer: Kirsten Thompson

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This week on Creannotators, I talked with artist Joshua Cassara about X-Force in Marvel’s Dawn of X, creating Krakoa’s Green Lagoon Tiki Bar, and what’s to come in X of Swords!

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X-Force Is:

Writer: Benjamin Percy

Artist: Joshua Cassara,

Colors: Dean White

Covers: Dustin Weaver

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