orchis Archives

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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,[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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 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[...]

In today's X-Men #27,  Juggernaut has a question to ask of Shadowkat, and maybe the only one worth answering right now. Who survived?

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Married to – and in love with – the missing mutant Typhoid Mary, he is now fully on the Krakoan side of things. Although he has his own power plays to make. Ms Marvel has been going through her own changes, now defined as a mutant, with Kama Khan as an inflitrator of Orchis's activities in New[...]

As Ms Marvel arrives at the Orchis-sponsored University she is infiltrating… Last time I spoke to Andre, he talked to me about Iman, telling me "the girl you are seeing in interviews is genuinely the real deal, she's a sweetheart, she's smart, she really loves comic books I hope the people at Marvel recognise this, I[...]

During which, Orchis attacked in a major planned-out fashion, killed many, displaced many more, and destroyed the island nation of Krakoa And the events spill out across the Marvel Universe Mostly With a look at X-Men Red #14, Ghost Rider #17, Iron Man Annual 2023, Marvel Voices: X-Men #1, and launches for Alpha Flight #1,[...]

You can get a recap of what has happened below, as we look at what might happen next. How Free Comic Book Day X-Men Joins Up With Hellfire Gala & Iron Man Ms Marvel's Future in the Marvel Universe Jonathan Hickman & Valerio Schiti's G.O.D.S Juggernaut & The Election of The New X-Men Wilson Fisk And The X-Men The Many, Many[...]

Or have Orchis order a billion infected humans to their deaths, the blame placed on Krakoa. And has indeed forced other mutants to force those who have managed to resist at the Hellfire Gala, to go through the gates as well. While on Krakoa, the human witnesses to all this, figures of state and prominent influencers at[...]

Because in today's Hellfire Gala (are you keeping up with the Bleeding Cool Hellfire Gala tag?) with her dying breath, Jean Grey gives Firestar a mission. To become a member of Orchis, to always have been a member of Orchis, for Dr Stasis to have always believed that Firestar was a member of Orchis, and had[...]

Orchis has attacked Krakoa from the off, and everyone is dying From the first blow of Nimrod… Talon seems to rescue Synch, but that's a legless Cannonball, an armless Dazzler, and a liquidised Prodigy Jubilee and Frenzy are right there And why Negasonic Teenage Warhead has a great name… (UPDATE: Damn Hellfire Gala and their costumes,[...]

This year, however, the mutant terrorist group Orchis had some other plans. Even as Jean Grey was turning Orchis' soldiers into nicer people, they had their own ultimatum to impose As we talked about, Orchis engineered the situation so that Professor Xavier would be forced to command a mass evacuation of the planet of all mutants,[...]

Concerning Orchis, Krakoa, and the X-Men. This is from House Of X #3, published four years ago A look at what is known as the Omega Cycle, a way of transforming a human into a sentinel, or even hiding a sentinel in a human, until it is needed to take down and kill mutants – the[...]

Someone with a religious fervour, it seems. Free Comic Book Day X-Men/Avengers 2023 At this point, it may be worth noting that his identity is not actually revealed in the Hellfire Gala 2023, published today by Marvel Comics. Free Comic Book Day X-Men/Avengers 2023 But his actions on behalf of Orchis set off a chain of events that do[...]

In comparison, the Kingpin of crime was a minnow. Though for the Kingpin, it may be out of the New York fat and into the Krakoan fire, after an assault from Orchis. Subsequent events see Wilson Fisk joining Emma Frost in New York to sign some very important papers, interrupted by Iron Man in his own title… Fisk[...]

Ironically while Orchis is plotting to deprive them of a home. But first, the resurrection of Ms Marvel after her death in Amazing Spider-Man, remembered again in today's Amazing Spider-Man #30 as well. And the revelation that she is a mutant, as well as an Inhuman, and the implications and possibilities that this all contains. Including Emma Frost[...]

Six Marvel Comics titles have Krakoan and Orchis relevance today, Spider-Man #9 (a tiny bit), Bishop: War College #5 (a little bit), Immortal X-Men #12 (somewhat), Invincible Iron Man #12 ( a lot), X-Men #23 (an awful lot) and X-Men: Before The Fall: First Strike (nothing but). In today's Spider-Man #9, the inhabitants of the Marvel[...]

In the Giant-Size X-Men: Thunderbird #1 by Steve Orlando, Nyla Rose and David Cutler, published earlier this year by Marvel Comics, the man behind the anti-mutant and anti-Krakoan Orchis and Heritage deal, was teased as follows; With a letter from the Heritage Initiative, to Orchis addressed to "a fellow Judas". And looking at the Orchis involvement in[...]