X of Swords: Creation #1

[laughing_tree]

So we got together as the X group, and we were like, 'We want to do a crossover.' And the question is, 'Okay, so were we just screwing around? Or do we actually have a story?' And thank goodness, we have a story. -- Jonathan Hickman

Comments

[icon_uk]

Muramasa is mentioned on BOTH sides? That could prove awkward.

"Can I borrow your Wolverine killing sword please?"

"No, I'm using it?"

"PRETTY please?"

"No, I'm killing someone else with it at the moment. You can have it when I'm finished with it!"

"Really?

"NO! Go away!"

Also, interestng, that if the swords are being mentioned in order of battle then Doug and Warlock's opposition is "Colony" and chances are they're be facing Redroot the Forest since they seem to fill the "Speaker for" role for Arakko that Doug does for Krakoa.

The names seem to tie into the prophecy couplet they got too

"Out of one comes many,
into many, comes one"

A colony would be many, and Warlock would be suited to infecting them all with TO virus...

[mastermahan]

It turns out any sword made by Muramasa is named Muramasa, so Wolverine and his Arrako counterpart team up and each get one.

It's also mentioned Muramasa swords can cut Adamantium and that Wolverine's counterpart has Adamantium skin (despite Arrako being isolated from Earth thousands of years before Adamantium was invented). No points for guessing where this is going.

[didiji]

I'm really glad Tarot is remembered, although I would love seeing her too. And with some actual clothes, I'm not so sure why the Hellions would continue to use their uniforms instead of changing for something new.

[shadowpsykie]

this seems fun...

also i hate Saturyne only because i can NEVER tell the difference between her and Emma.... i KNEW it was Saturyne, and STILL i though "Damn Emma is pretty badass here...." i need badass emma again... not just fabulous emma....

[shakalooloo]

Yeah, Saturnyne needs to get at least a crown or something so a casual glance can distinguish who's who.

...

Have Saturnyne and Emma Frost ever been in the same room together, on panel, side by side?

[donnblake]

The weird thing is that Saturnyne already has an Earthly doppelganger- Courtney Ross, replaced by the evil Sat-Yr-9. I remember one of those two playing cards against Emma in, I think, X-treme X-men.

[scorntx]

Uncanny, actually.

(Somehow less subtext than you'd expect from two villains written by Claremont...)

[agent8]

the easiest way to tell them apart is the clothing (or lack thereof).

[magnetoisright]

Emma does have MUCH better and hotter outfits it's true

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Oh, I thought that this Saturnyne had somehow possessed Emma.

[cainofdreaming]

I wonder if they ever get startled when they see a mirror and go "What's Emma/Saturnyne doing here?".

[filthysize]

Ohhh, I just got that X is read as cross so this story is a "Cross of Swords."

[stubbleupdate]

I assumed it was another ten

[zachbeacon]

Alex's face is looking pretty good.

New body?

[bruinsfan]

Madelyne healed him up just before buying the farm, I believe.