ClanDestine #2

History

The 2008 ClanDestine miniseries — of which this is the second issue — was written and penciled solely by Alan Davis with Mark Farmer on inks and J. Brown as colorist, continuing a partnership stretching back to their Excalibur days. Davis launched the five-part series in February 2008, timed alongside Marvel's release of the ClanDestine Classic Premiere hardcover, which collected the entire original Davis-drawn run to reintroduce the family to new readers. The miniseries picks up story threads Davis had left unresolved since the original series was cancelled over a decade earlier after his departure following issue #8, making it a consciously self-contained act of creative completion rather than a sales-driven revival.

Trivia · 8 facts

• First and only appearance of Thaddeus Destine (Earth-616), second-oldest known child of Adam Destine and the Djinn Elalyth, presented in flashback; he dies on the Tibetan Plateau in the winter of 1374 when the rogue Inhuman Tral's zombie army knocks him from a cliff.
• First appearance of Satyr-Nun, a supporting character who appears in the issue's historical flashback sequences alongside the Inhuman antagonist Tral (also making his first appearance in this issue).
• The issue delivers the in-continuity explanation of what befell Thaddeus in 1374 — a narrative mystery seeded in earlier ClanDestine material — and reveals that the normally pacifistic Albert Destine discovered his healing power could be weaponized in his grief over his brother's death.
• Excalibur (Brian Braddock/Captain Britain, Meggan, Rachel Summers/Phoenix, Nightcrawler, Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat, and Lockheed) guest-star in sequences set during the 'Cross-Time Caper' storyline; their appearance is explicitly placed post-Excalibur #11, interweaving Davis's 2008 miniseries directly into the timeline of his late-1980s Excalibur run.
• Dr. Hywel Griffin (Alpha) and the Omegans — synthetic beings created as accidental by-products of Griffin's search for a cure to his own albinism — continue their campaign against the Destines, with the Guild having anonymously tipped Griffin to the family's Ravenscroft location.
• Written and penciled by Alan Davis, inked by Mark Farmer, colored by J. Brown, and lettered by Dave Lanphear; published May 2008 by Marvel Comics as part of the five-issue ClanDestine Vol. 2 miniseries.
• The issue is collected in the ClanDestine: Blood Relative Premiere hardcover (Marvel, October 2008), which gathers the complete five-issue miniseries, and was later included in ClanDestine: Family Ties (2018), which also appends the 2012 trilogy of linked annuals.
• The conversation between Pandora and Adam in this issue provides the miniseries' key clarification of their mother Elalyth's nature — Adam corrects Pandora's use of the word 'genie,' specifying 'a Djinn — or at least that was the legend' — a detail that carries forward into the broader Marvel cosmology.

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