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X-Men, Orchis, Fall
The impact of Orchis and Krakoa continues to spill out across the rest of the Marvel Universe, with Anna Watson still in the Ravenscourt Institute after her Krakoan medicine to stave off dementia went wrong, as a direct impact of the Orchis incursion Called KDS apparently… I can hear the telethons now. Amazing Spider-Man #45 While Sabretooth[...]
What If... Alien
But there are also moments relevant to the whole Krakoa/Orchis fight in Thanos #4 and Avengers #11 Spoilers ahead of course. Ms Marvel: Mutant Menace #1 While all manner of other aspects of modern life get dragged into the allegory. X-Men #32 What allegory you ask? Well, Emma Frost turns up with her new weapons courtesy of Tony Stark[...]
Marvel Comics Wednesday
Life and death… Resurrection Of Magneto #2 And as Magneto recalls the punishment enacted upon Sabretooth and other mutants… Wolverine #44 Over in Wolverine, those events are also revisited. Wolverine #44 Magneto blaming himself for all those punished in the Krakoan pit. Resurrection Of Magneto #2 While in Wolverine, it is Logan who gets the blame for the same events. Invincible Iron Man #15 Tony[...]
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Time for a bit of a recap from the Beast in X-Force #49. As the story of Krakoa and Orchis, Apocalypse and Nimrod, Earth and Arakko, gets told once more. Fall Of The House Of X #2, told from the point of view of the Nathaniel Essex-formed Dominion of our solar system, looking back to Moira Mactaggart's[...]
X-Men Orchis Marvel Comics Fall Of X
Indeed, it may already have begun in future issues of Iron Man… Fall Of The House Of X #2 Sentinel Buster Iron Man armour, eh? We haven't seen that yet. Fall Of The House Of X #2 But Emma Frost has the Orchis situation in hand in New York at least. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1[...]
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An invasion of Earth by the Arakkii and Krakoan mutants Mars to depose Orchis That's the attempt anyway. X-Men #31 As Nightcrawler gets a rematch with a certain Nimrod Remember…. Uncanny X-Men #209 But that was some time ago Because the X-Men are busy doing all the prep work Even as Talon and Synch deal with the former's death[...]
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That's even without the giant robot Sentinels coming to get you. But on Marvel Unlimited X-Men #121, some mutants who also happen to be Native Americans have found a loophole to get away from Orchis, on Native American reservations. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see[...]
Marvel Comics X-Men Spider-Man
This week has Fall Of The House Of X #1 as the only Krakoan X-Men title in print… but there's also X-Men Infinity Unlimited #120 over at Marvel Unlimited and the return of Kingpin and Typhoid Mary to Amazing Spider-Man #41… #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption[...]
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So we know he recovers, as seen in this week's X-Men Unlimited Infinity #119, as the Arrakii prepare for their own very violent version of Christmas, the Blood Dawn (might that result in a Blue Moon?) as Orchis look for another mutant to take down… #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border:[...]
Captain
Everything is heading towards the big Orchis Vs X-Men finale amongst the Marvel mutant comic books… with Wolverine heading into space. And Spider-Man is getting dragged along, in one of a few  ways today. In Wolverine #40, Logan is taking Spider-Man on an impromptu trip into space to take out an Orchis space station[...]
X-Men
Orchis Vs X-Men continues for the Fall Of X No matter what the world throws at you, at Bleeding Cool, you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up[...]
X-Men
With Orchis battling from all sides. In last week's Iron Man, we got an inkling of a mutant invasion of Earth against Orchis coming And got an inkling of where it was coming, from above X-Men Red #18 plays out the final battle on Mars between the factions of Arakko. While in Dark X-Men #5, the battle[...]
Krakoa, Orchis And Returning Mutants
X-Men Origins: Blue gives us a little bit of exposition courtesy of the unidentified Bamf illusion/spirit/interloper from Uncanny Spider-Man as it delves into the new origin of Nightcrawler, Mystique and Destiny… While in Ms Marvel: The New Mutant #4, Kamala Khan meets the Omega Sentinel who carried out that attack. Kingpin's participation and facilitation of the X-Men,[...]
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First, Orchis comes to Wakanda looking for Vibranium, in Wolverine. And they offer a Stark Sentinel in return for a chunk of it Well, they are useful things. Uncanny Spider-Man has them being used for crowd… okay, not control so much, more crowd rabble rousing… While Invincible Iron Man has them tracking down other mutants in New York[...]
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So Orchis is coming under a number of challenges right now Madelyne Pryor is using her diplomatic immunity and personal demonic Cerebro to track down mutants and give them a home away from Orchis. Dark X-Men #4 Fatale and Feral are two of The Vulture's hounds using Warlock's techno-organic body and working for Orchis over in The[...]
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X-Men Red sees more mutants sent to Mars by Orchis, transported further to the Shi'Ar Empire, most have been enslaved by the warring Arakki factions on Mars. X-Men Red #17 While in X-Men Unlimited, Judas Traveller lists some of Orchis operations across the Marvel Universe… X-Men Unlimited #112 Tooms and his hounds? We get to see them today in[...]
X-Men
As Sunfire traverses Otherworld, unable to return to Earth after the closing of the Krakoan gates by Orchis And keeping one item very close to him. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ With Redroot, the personification of Arakko embedded in him,[...]
Trial Of Cyclops
Welcome to the Trial of Cyclops! As teased in this week's Uncanny Avengers... …it looks like January's Fall Of The House Of X will kick off with that very same trial of Cyclops, charged with mass murder and terrorism, believed to have been the Captain Krakoa individual, actually employed by Orchis. I am sure there are good[...]
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In comparison, the Kingpin of crime was a minnow. Though for the Kingpin, it may have been out of the New York fat and into the Krakoan fire, after an assault from Orchis. Wilson Fisk had been principal in saving the life of the old Hellfire Club member Lourdes and her teleporting powers. Necessary when teleporting those mutants[...]
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It even works for Hallow's Eve in her one shot today, when she just puts a Captain America mask on… And, it seems, the words and the worlds just come. But it is today's Uncanny Avengers #3 rather than Captain America #2 that sees Captain America give a Big Mutant Speech to the assembled New Yorkers outside[...]
X-Men, Orchis, Future Of Mutants
There are a lot of Krakoan X-Men Vs Orchis comic books out this week A lot Seven main books, Alpha Flight #4, Dark X-Men #3, Jean Grey #3,  Uncanny Spider-Man #2, Uncanny Avengers #3, Realm Of X #3, Ms Marvel: New Mutant #3 with appearances from Amazing Spider-Man #36, Immortal Thor #3, Hallows Eve: The[...]
X-Men Orchis End Times
As Orchis' grasp on humanity – and America – starts to falter from all sides. Astonishing Iceman sees the Captain America Of The Rails defending humans that have been identified as mutants,m for having mutant tattoos Tattoos that give mutant powers, admittedly, but still. Cable and Bishop attack the Children Of The Vault, who have stepped in[...]
Marvel Comics Wednesday
Marvel publishes a meagre two X-Men titles this week, Wolverine #38 and X-Men Red #16, with the impact of the Hellfire Gala playing out on two different planets, but all engineered by Orchis And it's time to bring out the biggest guns of all. Wolverine #38 I thought it was only mutants that were transported off-world that[...]
X-Men Orchis X-Force
Three big X-Men comics out today further the Fall of X and the existence of Orchis, the terrorist group formed by the future, that has destroyed the X-Men in the present It has manipulated governments and the media, it got everything it wanted Of course, the price of getting what you want is getting what[...]
Today's Best Laid Plans Of Mice And X-Men (XSpoilers)
So what are the latest Orchis plans against the mutants, the X-Men and Krakoa? Ms Marvel: The New Mutant #3 is at the epicentre, as it sees an anti-mutant protest from the young people at Empire State University Looks like mutant hatred is as strong among the young as anywhere else. Ms Marvel: The New Mutant #3 Though[...]
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Orchis remains the big bad of the Marvel mutant universe right now The organisation formed by a team of human scientists and agents from SHIELD, AIM, ARMOR, STRIKE, SWORD, HAMMER, Alpha Flight, Hydra, and more, creating their new Sentinel technology like Nimrod, previously only seen coming from that far future Created in the present day[...]
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As well as a Hellfire Gala second printing, Marvel Comics has four Krakoan X-Men titles out this week, Astonishing Iceman #2, Children Of The Vault #2, X-Force #44, and X-Men Red #15, all playing out the Fall Of X consequences or Orchis stepping up as a world-recognised and accepted anti-mutant terrorist organisation As one does. In[...]
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The event of the Hellfire Gala saw Orchis press gang all the X-Men and mutants on Krakoa, and the rest of the world, into the Krakoan portal gates and send them… somewhere But not Mars/Arakko as was, it seems, the plan. And, yes, Selene and Sebastian Shaw were part of that plan Was this cockup or[...]