House to Astonish

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Continuing my reviews catch-up, we come to the opening six issues of Hellions. Very loosely, this might be seen as the replacement title for Fallen Angels, the one generally accepted dud from the first wave of Krakoan X-books. It picks up Psylocke and Mr Sinister, and in the last couple of issues, the plot links have become rather more explicit. Clearly this is the new home for the storyline that was set up in Fallen Angels, not just for two of its characters.But it s a very different sort of title. Fallen Angels was a ponderous affair with more than a dash of sixth form poetry to it. Hellions is a gleeful antisocial mess, in which Psylocke attempts to corral a team of mostly unmanageable eccentrics and supervillains into some sort of viable team, running missions on behalf of the utterly untrustworthy Mr Sinister. Sinister needs some sort of deniability in order to maintain his position on Krakoa, but that s about all in terms of how far they can trust him. Posted on Monday, January 11, 2021 by Al in UncategorizedIt s the Homies awards! We look back at The Year of Big Pando in comics, and pick out winners in the many and various categories which long-term listeners will have come to know and tolerate. Where did your favourites place? Find out here! Unless you voted for something that didn t win, in which case, you ll have to go through the voting thread and tot up the league table yourself, sorry.Also in this podcast! An important message to you from the editor about the NEW Astonishing!And if you re in the Southern hemisphere, congratulations! You ve probably got weather that would justify you buying one of our beautiful t-shirts! Posted on Saturday, January 9, 2021 by Paul in MusicThis is the strange chart, the one where all the Christmas records vanish simultaneously, and a flood of records rush up the chart to fill the gap. The chart this week contains no fallers at all, and 19 re-entries relatively few of them are reaching new peaks, and I won t be mentioning those again, but suffice to say that it s the sort of week when You Broke Me First by Tate McRae, which peaked at number 3 in October, rebounds from number 74 to number 9. There are, however, quite a few genuine new entries on this chart mostly the tracks that got swamped out of the top 40 by the Christmas releases, finally making it into the chart. Posted on Friday, January 8, 2021 by Paul in AnnotationsAs always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition.Throughout this series, D-Cel has insisted that she isn t a mutant, despite other characters repeatedly claiming that she is. Juggernaut wants to get her to Krakoa, but everyone seems to agree that she has to make the decision to call on Krakoa first. This isn t exactly the approach that we ve seen the Krakoans take with more powerful mutants, but well, it s D-Cel. The Krakoans probably have better things to do than hunt down minor mutants who don t want to come anyway. Posted on Thursday, January 7, 2021 by Paul in AnnotationsAs always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition.HELLIONS #8 The Grinning Neonate by Zeb Wells, Stephen Segovia David CurielCOVER / PAGE 1. Wild Child and Nanny fight their way past the Right, to the surprise of Havok and Psylocke. As we established in the previous issue, their resurrection has made both Wild Child and Nanny much more focussed and aggressive.PAGE 2. Epigraph from (as usual) Nightcrawler. He insists that hate is not part of the soul of man, but something generated by circumstances. Posted on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 by Paul in AnnotationsAs always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition.X-FACTOR vol 4 #6 Suite No. 6: Scio Me Hili Scire Second Movement' by Leah Williams, David Baldeon Israel SilvaCOVER / PAGE 1: Siryn, with her voice forming the image of a death spirit of some sort.PAGE 2: An epigraph from Siryn, though with an asterisk to something redacted. Presumably this is supposed to indicate that it s actually the death spirit that s possessing her (of whom more later). Though this seems to be an original quote, the basic observation that death is comparable to waking from a dream isn t new. May have gotten lonely and left an ill-advised voice mail to Alex last night. Alex Summers (Havok from Hellions). Lorna and Alex were a couple for decades, but haven t had many dealings lately. It feels a bit odd for people on Krakoa to talk about using regular mobile phones.X-MEN vol 5 #10-15by Jonathan Hickman, Leinil Francis Yu, Mahmud Asrar Sunny GhoAs with Excalibur, I m including the X of Swords issues here, because that crossover was central to X-Men in a way that it wasn t for most of the titles. And with that arc, we get to the first major turning point in Hickman s overreaching plot, with Arakko returning to Earth.This is a crossover-heavy bunch of issues. Not only does it include three chapters of X of Swords , but issues #10 and #11 are tie-ins to Empyre. However, those are a very different affair; Empyre is completely peripheral to X-Men. Both of those issues use the tie-in sensibly enough they just treat it as a readymade alien invasion that doesn t call for further explanation, and use that as a backdrop for their own stories.When we left the X-Men, they d just finished an adventure in the Savage Land, and were trying to sail back to civilisation in a makeshift raft. As you do.This is a big year for Wolverine, introducing some of the major aspects of his personal mythology.X-MEN vol 1 #117 Psi-War by Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Terry Austin Glynis OliverJanuary 1979This is a Professor X story. The other X-Men only appear in the opening pages, in which a passing Japanese ship rescues them from a deadly gale. The vessel has some sort of secret government business to attend to before returning home (we never find out what) and so the X-Men are going to be stuck on it for a while yet. The reprint in Classic X-Men #23 adds an epilogue page, where the X-Men fill the time by training, and Wolverine broods over Jean, whom he still thinks died in issue #113. Posted on Saturday, January 2, 2021 by Paul in MusicThis is a little unexpected. This chart period includes Christmas Day, but it also includes the six days following. And normally the Christmas records tail off sharply once Christmas itself is passed. So I assumed we d start to see the clear out this week. Instead, festive domination continues for a further week, and Last Christmas sneaks a week at number one before the season ends. It hasn t been a number one before it was the Christmas number 2 in 1984 behind Band Aid. That s 36 years ago, setting a new record for the longest time between entering the charts and reaching number one. (The previous record holder was Tony Christie s (Is This The Way To) Amarillo , which reached number 1 as a charity re-issue 33 years after it first charted.) Posted on Friday, January 1, 2021 by Paul in AnnotationsAs always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition.WOLVERINE vol 7 #8 War Stories by Benjamin Percy, Viktor Bogdanovic Matthew Wilson The Past Ain t Dead by Benjamin Percy, Adam Kubert Antonio FabelaCOVER / PAGE 1: Wolverine face to face with Maverick, which doesn t actually happen in this issue.We last saw Bannister (and his back garden) in issue #3, when the gate was planted. Evidently it s become fully grown since then.Needless to say, there s no established continuity involved here. Bannister is basically telling us that he became disillusioned as a CIA agent when he found that he d been sent to kill other Americans in order to stop them from brokering a peace deal. It s a fairly standard trope about the secret services having their own agenda. Bannister claims to be sticking around to do what he can from within.

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