The reference to honing a woman’s soul into a blade points towards Magik’s Soulsword, one of the blades named in the first chapter of X of Swords. Magik is one of the Great Captains of Krakoa.

In his review of the final issue of the event, our critic Jamie Lovett gave X of Swords: Destruction #1 a 4 out of 5, writing: “For a series that began feeling like a structural homage to ...