Our Marauders have been to space, welcomed a mutant from 2099, taken a deep dive into the Proterozoic proto-ocean, rescued a couple of ancient mutants from yet another genocide, and wondered who made a mysterious puzzle box. Now their series is ending. Will their questions get answered in Marauders #12, written by Steve Orlando, drawn…
Dear readers, it is so important that you know the kissing parts and Dad parts of Marauders #12 are unrelated. X-Men books contain multitudes and those multitudes are having feelings about your new girlfriend from a far distant past mutant society as well as other people having feelings about their mob affiliated Dad who, to…
Our team has come back from the distant past, bringing three plucky survivors from the long-ago, now-defunct mutant society Threshold. Will Captain Kate Pryde start a time loop with their help? Also, remember that jerk Brimstone Love? He’s back too, in Marauders #11, written by Steve Orlando, art by Eleanora Carlini, colors by Matt Milla,…
Billions of years in the past, a culture of proto-mutants and proto-humans faces extinction-level threats from the Unbreathing (an anaerobic civilization), from Arkea (wannabe world-dominating microorganisms), from Sublime (wannabe world-dominating microorganisms created by Grant Morrison), and from Stryfe (that guy). Can our chrono-journeying mutants save everyone? Or anyone? Time to find out in Marauders #10,…
Inconceivably long ago in the history of the Earth, the mutants (Enriched) and the non-mutant humans (Enshrined) of the community called Threshhold battle the anaerobes of the Unbreathing and the genocidal megabacteria Arkaea and Sublime. Our Marauders have come, in sealed suits, from the future to save their kin. Some will die, some will live,…
Stephanie – quick! Itās Ian! Iāve traveled back in time billions of years to warn you that a rogue microorganism has infected the creatures you refer to as āpetsā! We can only save your beloved cats and dogs if we first review Marauders #8, written by Steve Orlando and illustrated by Eleonora Carlini, colors by…
Everyone knows how the X-Men are pirates now. These are times when the X-Men met some pirates. Yo Ho! Ranked This Episode: Marauders #1-12, #16 Uncanny X-Men #384-385, X-Men #104 (Crimson Pirates) Nightcrawler #8-12 (Bloody Bess + Shadow King)
Want to meet yet more never-before-seen mutants from a past that looks like a space opera future? Captain Prydeās crew has you covered in Marauders #7, written by Steve Orlando, drawn by Eleanora Carlini, colored by Rachelle Rosenberg and Matt Milla, lettered by VCās Ariana Maher. Stephanie Burt: Hi, Ian! Looks like weāve got plots…
The world of 2099 is a strange one. A world where mega corporations have consolidated all commerce and life to serve their ends. It would be called late-stage capitalism, but that implies there is an end in sight. Who could imagine such an existence? This is what Kate Pryde and her Marauders face in our…
The Marauders are back from space and ready to do their part to save the Earth in the editorially-mandated crossover event called “Judgment Day”, but first itās time forā¦. a peek inside each oneās dreams in Marauders #6, written by Steve Orlando, drawn by Andrea Broccardo, colors by Matt Milla, letters by VCās Ariana Maher….
Space opera becomes time drama as our mutant adventurers delve back into the past to undo Shiāar crimes against mutantkind. And by āthe pastā we meanā¦ 1993? Marauders #5, with writing by Steve Orlando, line art by Andrea Broccardo, colors by Matt Milla, letters by VCās Ariana Maher. Ian Gregory: I would say that weāve…
What are the Kin Crimson hiding? Whose space-blood was the First Blood Shed? Whatās it all about, Tempo? Find out in Marauders #4, written by Steve Orlando, drawn by Eleanora Carlini, colors by Matt Milla, letters byĀ Ariana Maher. Ian Gregory: Avast, Stephanie – weāre back with more Marauders! Weāve expanded beyond just the pirate…
Shiāar space baddies have captured our spacefaring heroes, and no one knows– yet– what secret about the first mutants the Kin Crimson have been keeping from the rest of Shiāar society. Will Kate Pryde and her band escape? Can they get help? Where can they go? Whatās going on? Find out in Marauders #3. Written…
Captain Kate Pryde has taken her new team to space! Bishop, Psylocke, and the rest– among them, incredibly, the genocidal ex-supervillain Cassandra Nova– have set out for the stars in order to find the First Mutants and solve the mystery of an ancient box. Whatever they seek, the Shiāar donāt want them to find it–…
Ahoy, Marauders! Itās a new number one. A new ship (itās a spaceship). A not-really-new mission (rescue endangered mutants). A new creative team (except that we saw the writer already in the Annual). A new team, except Red Queen Captain Kate Pryde and muscular source of continuity/ time-traveling ex-cop Lucas Bishop. A new mystery (itās…