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...the mountain scape in David's mind.
More and more, Claremont seems to be hinting toward the sinister nature of Jack (and to a lesser extent, Cyndi)–winking to the reader that our rescue team is in greater danger than they know.
The interactions are unsettling, because...
...finds himself and a home with the fledging band of space pirates. The "bloodbond" he forms with Hepzibah extends to the rest of the team, themselves united in resistance against their slavers and the greater Shi'ar empire.
In the backup's closing panels, Corsair reclaims...
...space in all of the backstories thus far to explore the emotionality of the book's main and supporting cast.
The loss of Katherine and, as he presumes, his sons weighs heavily on Corsair's conscience despite his own powerlessness in stopping D'Ken's assault, and Hepzibah's...
...are glimpses of Scott's heroism and willingness to stand against injustice at personal cost, but the man's brokenness overrides his nobility following his assault as punishment by the Shi'ar Slavers.
Male trauma is often overlooked in comics, but Claremont has reserved...
...was often written as an unfeeling and unrepentant... jerk–the trauma of his and Katherine's abduction at the hands of the Mad Emperor D'Ken understated in favor of highlighting the swashbuckling space pirate side of his identity.
In his initial defense of Hepzibah, there...
...confidence that it is not as black and white as Gaby would encourage the reader's to believe.
In a quick panel, Cyndi implicates Jack in David's capture within his own mind–his fear that if David is rescued they'll lose sentience shading all of his following interactions...
...hatred and a violent war to prove legitimacy. From his father, David inherited immense power with which he might defend himself, if only he'd be allowed the guidance.
I could make arguments either way that responsibility for the absence of paternal support in David's life...
...persona, the rebellious pyrokinetic girl Cyndi. Through her discussion with Moira, Cyndi delivers my earlier mentioned thesis of the issue: that children pay the emotional and physical prices for their parents' mistakes.
From his mother, David inherited a home rife with...
...be the most violent and manipulative of David's personalities. Charles reads the persona as flattery, when it should be taken as insult–but the man's arrogance is too great to imagine this psychological likeness anything but benign.
We're introduced to a third and final...
...clear that he is perhaps the most benign of David's personas, his nature as an "occupying" force confuses whatever intentions Claremont set out to write through the metaphor.
It's further noteworthy that Jack Wayne, the persona whom Xavier quickly aligns himself with might...