MARAUDERS BY GERRY DUGGAN VOL. 1

Kate Pryde, long known for being lighthearted and adventurous finds herself unable to enter the nation of Krakoa. She is then offered a role in helming a ship and some additional X-Men as they head out on their new assignment. I fully expected goofery and that really is not what happens here. Kate Pryde has turned into a hard drinking, hard fighting, hand tattooed character and I just can not get behind it. The ship gets boarded so often and so easily by enemies that I have to wonder what the team does while out on a mission. Unfortunately, I will not be reading more of this series.

Love this book. Some of my favorite major and minor X-Men characters get to team up

Great

Probably my most favorite series from the new X-lineup, i loved it!

Marauders is one of the original line of Dawn of X books that relaunched the X-Men line. In Dawn of X, Charles Xavier has founded a mutant nation on the miraculous island of Krakoa and has invited every mutant in the world to come join them. As a way to assure that the rest of the world recognizes this new nation and respects them, they use Krakoa to produce life-saving and life-extending drugs that they sell to the rest of the world. Xavier entrusts Emma Frost and her Hellfire Trading Company with the distribution of the drugs and Emma reaches out to Kate/Kitty Pryde to be one of the key figures in the company. Marauders is about Kate and the crew of her ship (initially Storm, Iceman, Pyro, and Lockheed) as they travel the world, cracking down on the black market for the Krakoan drugs and rescuing mutants whose governments won't let them go to Krakoa - like in Russia where mutants are forced to serve the state.Kate Pryde is the central figure of this series and it's Gerry Duggan's interpretation of her that really made the series shine for me. She's still a fun and light-hearted character but Kate is older now and going through an intense personal crisis as she's not sure that she belongs on Krakoa (the teleportation portals that other mutants use to travel to Krakoa don't work for Kate, which feels as if the island itself is rejecting her). After years of being a teenage super hero and then a teacher, she doesn't know who she is or where she belongs. So, there's more twenty-something-style misbehavior from her than you'd normally expect - drinking, clubbing, and tattoos. But it all felt completely appropriate to the character for me given where she is at the moment. And instead of feeling self-pitying or destructive, it was just a young woman cutting loose and having a good time with her friends.I enjoyed all of the characters in the book. Emma's relationship with Kate is great, she's almost like a once-hated stepmother who now has Kate's respect and friendship. Iceman and Pyro are fun. Bishop is surly as usual but isn't so obsessively bleak. And Sebastian Shaw is as much an evil, manipulative villain as ever. The stories are fun, with multiple plot threads, establishing a number of threats that the Marauders will eventually have to face.Regarding the art, it's consistently strong and appealing. And, though there are multiple different artists over the course of this book, their styles are harmonious so there's no jarring shift of drawing styles from one issue to the next.So, if you're interested in dipping your toe into the Dawn X era of the X-Men this is probably one the easiest books to start with (though reading House of X and Powers of X is also totally worth it and it lays out the new status quo perfectly).

So, I haven't read any of Jonathan Hickman's new X-books but this was an interesting new beginning. I think some of the nautical stuff was too overt and while I have loved some incarnations of the Hellfire Club, this one left me underwhelmed. I liked Duggan's script but assumed there would be some more laughs. The art was okay but there some great covers. Overall, I'm intrigued to see where this goes.

I’ve been reading X-related comics since a little before the “Dark Phoenix Saga” (maybe before that, since I used to spend a lot of time in my cousin’s room reading his classic comics in those days) but had a long hiatus of some years. This seems to be part of a new direction (which I gather itself may have ended with a 2020 total reboot of this part of Marvel) and a neat one, with a mutant homeland idea broached again (but instead of Magneto ruling Genosha, it’s Krakoa - a familiar name to X-fans!- and a council) and a bunch of our heroes and ex-villains gone filibustering (privateering/pirating, that is- synonyms) for basically good reasons…

Sin duda Marauders es el mejor título de Dawn of X.... La historia es fresca, fluida, con personajes que conoces de años y a los que quieres mucho. El arte es bueno sin ser excelente, pero si a corde a la historia que te cuentan. Me gustó mucho, el tomo llegó en perfectas condiciones

Perfect condition, careful packaging, deadlines respected. Nothing to say.