Marauders #20: Windriders

[superboyprime]

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[tinygaylaura]

The Kate/Emma energy is STRONG here. Do these two have a ship name yet? Do people still do that, make up cute portmanteaus for pairings?

I quite like the sound of DiamondPryde

This is a great issue. Storm rescuing this girl from slavery AND beating the living crap out of some worthless neo-nazi terrorist trash? More comics should have moments like this in them that feel this satisfying to read

I still do not trust Sebastian as far as I could throw him and his wheelchair with one hand

[iamrman]

A bunch of people sitting around a table saying how awesome Storm is? Was this ghostwritten by Chris Claremont?

[scorntx]

-"Such a shame the Sentinels snatched her before Cerebro came online"-

I know trying to make sense of the timeline is always a fool's errand, even without retcons, comic book time and simple flub-ups, but... didn't Charles build Cerebro before he founded the X-Men proper? And he met Moira long before Lucifer dropped that block of lead on him. So, way, way before anyone had ever thought of building Sentinels.
I guess the easy explanation is she died before Charles / Moira got the back-up system working properly.

[silverhammerman]

I can't help thinking about this recent article with the pages featuring Lash up above. Tbh whole exercise of Marauders, with those scenes in India and Angola, and looking back on the series use of Madripoor, has me wincing just a little bit for the colonial implications. For the record I don't mean that the characters themselves are acting as colonialists or even that the characters are in the wrong, but more that, looking in from the outside, Marauders feels faintly like a colonial narrative. Maybe I'm wrong! I could totally be wrong! But these pages read a little weirdly and it's not the first time from the Krakoan era in general and this title in particular, and as the sheen of the Dawn of X era has worn off, this stuff gets harder to excuse.

[zachbeacon]

I have to enjoy Bishop's bluff here.

It does raise a question thought; how often do mutants get the credit/blame for stuff related to their powers that they weren't involved in? If someone loses everything in an earthquake do they try to sue Rictor?

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Loving the new Emma/Kitty dynamic. Do we have any scans of how this new relationship of theirs came to be? I know the whole Krakoan thing is putting old enmities aside, but that doesn't mean Kitty and Emma necessarily have to like each other, so I'm trusting there's more to it?