Geek Syndicate Issue 8 | Page 101

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S: So Magik brings into the
present the actual future XMen including Quentin Quire
as Phoenix.
B: We’ve got Shogo, all grownup, in some kind of Iron Man
suit. We don’t know what his
powers are.
S: We’ve some kind of new
Doctor Strange.
B: We’ve got Iceman and we
discover that the Ice Hulkthing with The Brotherhood is
actually one of his duplicates
that has attained some level of
sentience and has gone off on
its own.
S: There’s also future Colossus
with a metal goatee, which I
quite liked.
B: Yup, and he’s got Magik’s
sword. He and Magik have
quite a nice reunion.
S: Anyway, it ends up in a
big disaster between all four
teams and what is the eventual outcome?
B: Well, The Brotherhood capture the young X-Men and
try to send them back home
but for some reason, which is
never explained in the story,
they’re literally unable to send
them back to their own time.
It won’t work.
S: Why don’t they get Magik to
do it?
B: Because Magik isn’t on
their side, I guess. When they

can’t send the original X-Men
back, The Brotherhood decide
instead to engineer a situation where they’ll get all the XMen in one place, in this case
the military base where the XMen first confronted Magneto
in X-Men #1 (1963). Everyone
turns up at this base, including S.H.I.E.L.D who rock up led
by Maria Hill with Dazzler in
tow.
S: Dazzler who’s done nothing.
B: Poor old Dazzler. She’s not
having a good time of it as
the…what is it? Mutant Liaison? Then Jean Grey/Xorn
takes control of the S.H.I.E.L.D
helicarriers and has them fire
all their weapons at the X-Men
with the aim of sparking an
incident between humans and
mutants.
S: It’s future Hank McCoy and
Jean Grey, primarily, trying to
engineer a mutant vs. human
war because, in their view, the
two can never get along. Humans just want to persecute
mutants.
B: Which, in fairness, was
Magneto’s original motivation when he was leading The
Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
So that’s consistent. At least
they’re not just using the name.
What happens next is that, in
unwillingly firing everything
they have at the mutants, it is
revealed that S.H.I.E.L.D has
its own Sentinels. So that’s
something that will no doubt
drive future stories.

Brotherhood are defeated.
Grown-up Jean, despite her
powers, is defeated.
B: She’s not really defeated,
she basically self-destructs
and I guess that’s something
we’ll find out more about at
some later point. We’ve heard
mentions of this the whole
way through this story with
other characters referencing some reason why she has
to wear the Xorn mask all the
time and what happens if she
gets too wound up.
S: But she’s not dead.
B: Isn’t she?
S: No, they make a point of
pointing it out in the last issue. That they’re not sure she’s
dead.
B: Really? I read that differently. Maybe I misread that…
S: Yeah, I’m taking it to mean
they’re not sure The Brotherhood is dead.

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tants’ is a ridiculous name.

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