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I mean. This just has shades of both the obvious Wicker Man and in the conditioning that you see in A Clockwork Orange and The Prisoner.
Also, OF COURSE everything a mindfuck.
Our thought substance reappears from back in the end of volume 1. I definitely feel like you get more out of all of this if you've got a ground in '60s through '80s British pop culture, police shows, spy thrillers, and folk horror movies.
This next transformation for King Mob feels in part an outgrowth from some of the similar takes in The Matrix and what we'll see again as the X-Men go hard for leather.
Barbelith.
There's an interesting overlap here with where Barbelith happens to be in space and the themes present in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The ties between real and imagined secret societies here is interesting. Along with the connection between Beryl and Miles.
You're probably still wondering who is this shaggy hair guy shacking up with this lady in India and how any of this domesticity fits in with the rest of the series.
When you think about it, the plan to replace the monarch with the moonchild is just downright batty.
Though, when you look at some British leadership, it might be a step up.
And just to show that not everything is roses, we've got some problems for a member of Division X.