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Readthrough: Uncanny X-Men 96
24 Jan 2019 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sheliak(But first, a correction re: last Uncanny issue—Len Wein was still plotting that one, which I missed the first time through. And this issue, Bill Mantlo is credited with a "plotting assist". After that, Claremont is sole plotter. I think.)
Anyway, back to the story...
( Night of the Demon! )
This is the only time anyone talks back to the narrator. What’s up with that?
Cyclops warned the others not to respond to malevolent narration, lest more demons be unleashed.
3 (33.3%)
No one else can actually hear the narrator, and after this Cyclops is doubly careful not to be provoked.
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The narrator felt bad about helping to unleash demons, and decided not to push mutants so far in the future.
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Something else, as I will explain in the comments.
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What's up with the demonic cairn?
Professor X knew it existed, but not its true nature. Possibly the first X-Men wrote reports on it.
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... ditto, but he knew what it was and just never got around to fencing it off.
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It's invisible unless broken.
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Demonic cairns are just really common in this universe, so no one really gave it a second thought.
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I have a different theory, which I will explain in the comments.
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Any thoughts on Steven Lang, Michael Rossi, or Kierrok the Damned?
And why do you think Professor X and Moira MacTaggert decided to introduce her as the X-Men's "housekeeper?"
This Sunday: Wolverine and Nightcrawler bond in "The Big Dare".
Next Thursday: "Erik the Red" steals Cyclops's old alter ego and brainwashes Havok and Polaris into attacking the X-Men.
