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That visitor is almost certainly Mikhail Rasputin, which seems obvious here in issue #12.
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In those pages, the Chronicler receives a visit from an unknown patron, who removes all the alcohol from the room with a wave of his hand. X-Force #11 gave two entire data pages over to this individual, and they told a story unconnected to the rest of the events in that book, about the Chronicler’s own past, their penchant for drink, and their established fame and reputation as a writer.
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A full report attributed to this Chronicler didn’t appear in data pages until X-Force #10, a page which I lambasted for its rendition of actions in text rather than on panel. That report also referred to Colossus by his full, Russian name, then translated that name into Russian, an step that seemed unnecessary, unless the scribe were specifically writing a report to be cross-referenced using that language. This was the first time that this Chronicler was named, although remember that as early as X-Force #1, we had an intelligence report that referred to Krakoa from the perspective of an outsider, despite a discussion of intimate political knowledge concerning the fledgling nation. Beast has known about this Chronicler since issue #7, when he found a scrap of paper signed by that individual. One of the story threads being told through data pages in the last few issues is the role of the “Chronicler,” a Russian agent on Krakoa who has been writing accounts of events there, for an unknown audience. And boy are there some actions this issue. Instead, what we’ve had in X-Force is twelve issues of characters already historically associated with some of the franchise’s murkier operations allowed to explore their relationship with that morality, and a couple of characters who really are just the worst allowed to be the worst without the story around them either justifying or excusing their actions. It was reasonable to worry that we might see something along those lines prior to this new era of X-books, we’d certainly had those kinds of letdowns before. They’re guilty of horrendous crimes on an international stage, and we already have a glut of fictional media that just loves to paint them as heroes. The CIA has been a hot topic in the comics community thanks to a certain writer over at Detective Comics Comics, and frankly, they’re not a good organization. It’s just really, really clever work, you know? A year and change ago, this book was billed as “mutant CIA” and that description alone made everyone very, very nervous. X-Force #12 Bazaldua (Art), Joe Caramagna (Letterer), Edgar Delgado (Cover Art) Guru-eFX (Colors) Tom Muller (Design), Benjamin Percy (Writer), Dustin Weaver (Cover Art) That it accomplishes this despite featuring two characters I’ve come to despise is impressive. The thing about X-Force is that somehow, after a full twelve issues, what would’ve been a year’s worth of comics in non-COVID times, I still keep wanting to come back to it, review work aside.