There’s also the way Destiny’s power is portrayed in this issue. It’s a nice, subtle way of highlighting Raven’s importance in the story of Irene’s life, making her pop off the page like, I dunno, a selectable item in a video game. Also, Werneck keeps everything in flashback within tight rectangular panels, with nothing popping out of them until Irene meets Raven. It helps to keep things straight, visually. There are a few points I’d like to highlight here: first, I’d like to applaud Lima’s coloring work, casting the past through a gauzy, sepia lens.
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But then again, that’s the challenge for anyone managing a long running comics series or major religion. Mark: It’s a similar trick to what he did in Eternals, acknowledging everything that’s happened as having happened, but also straightening out all the parts that seem to contradict each other. These are all things we kinda already knew, but Gillen is formalizing and/or recontextualizing them, somewhat. Like the notion that it’s easy for Destiny to see Colossus bursting through the wall in three minutes but big picture stuff is harder, that there are certain “hard” points in history (that she calls nexus events) that have a gravitational pull of sorts, pushing time in their direction, and that she knowingly went to her death in Uncanny X-Men #255 in order to bring about Krakoa (as opposed to the more general “save Mystique” explanation that was originally given).
But more than specific retcons, what this whole sequence does is add some clarification/definition to some different things. Are there any notable additions to Destiny’s history/retcons, oh gentleman of leisure?Īustin: Near as I can remember, the fact that Destiny had “regular” sight until her powers manifested is new information. Mark: That’s kind of been the series’ balancing act so far: acting as something of a synopsis for latecomers while also advancing the story in interesting ways. So here we are.Īustin: In other “past” happenings, this issue opens with an extended look back at Destiny’s history, from the dawning of her mutant abilities, to the loss of her (physical) sight, to her decision to let herself be killed by Legion. I made the connection right after our review went live and have sat on it since then. We were wondering what was going on with Destiny telling Sinister about a time when she told him they must be on the same side, and yet we didn’t connect it to issue #1, where we see Destiny whispering some unknown thing into Sinister’s ear. Mark: Before we get much further, I wanted to very quickly amend something we talked about in our previous installment. Immortal X-Men #3 was well worth the wait though, with a peek behind the gleaming metallic mask of everyone’s favorite precog/ Inferno kindling, Destiny! The Past Immortal X-Men #3 | Marvel | Wernek, Lima Though with issue #6 (a Shaw-focused issue tying in with AXE) now being canceled pending a re-solicit, it seems like our supply chain-related comic delays aren’t entirely behind us.Īustin Gorton: In much the same way Marvel has (wisely) removed the dates from the upcoming issues listed in the back of the X-Men titles, it’s probably best to consider all series as “monthly(?)” at this point. Mark Turetsky: Austin! It’s been only a month since we last met in this hallowed council chamber to discuss Immortal X-Men #2. In “The New Testament of Irene Adler,” Destiny experiences visions of many possible futures… all ending in nothingness! Immortal X-Men #3 written by Kieron Gillen, with art by Lucas Werneck, colors by Dijjo Lima, lettering by Clayton Cowles and design by Tom Muller and Jay Bowen.
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