WARNING: The following contains spoilers for S.W.O.R.D. #1 by Al Ewing, Valerio Schiti, Marte Gracia, VC's Ariana Maher, and Tom Muller, on sale now.
The Peak, a former S.W.O.R.D. space station, has been recently repowered by Abigail Brand after her exit from Alpha Flight, and it is now effectively the face of the mutant space program. And as Magneto learns when he visits the station in S.W.O.R.D. #1, it's staffed by mutants from every X-Men era and every corner of the Marvel Universe.
Many of the mutants on the station are part of a powerful circuit of transporters that can send mutants to any corner of the multiverse. The teleport team is filled to the brim with powerful mutants, headed by Manifold and including powerhouses such as Blink and Gateway, but another crewman catches Magneto's attention in a delightful way, Peeper. Peter Quinn is on board as part of the crew, where he uses his mutant vision abilities to see and identify things that his teammates are unable to on their own. Of course, the joy of a friendly reunion doesn't just go one way, and Peeper is glad to reunite with his old friend, Magneto.
First introduced in 1977's Captain America Annual #4 and created by Jack Kirby, Peter Quinn was one of Magneto's recruits into the third incarnation of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Magneto led his new team on a hunt for the mutant duo of Mister One and Mister Two, an immobile and mute telepath who had formed a symbiotic and dependent relationship with a mindless, super-strong brawler. The villains were thwarted by Captain America, at which point they were abandoned by Magneto.
After this, that Brotherhood would rename themselves Mutant Force and enter the employ of Mandrill, being set upon the Defenders by their new leader. Peeper would go on to befriend Beast and Wolverine during their time incarcerated together in the Cage. Though he was apparently killed shortly after the events of House of M, he most recently resurfaced among the medical staff at the Ravencroft Institute earlier this year.
Peeper hasn't ever been the most threatening mutant, but his various optical powers including telescopic, microscopic, and x-ray vision have always been valuable to anyone he finds himself working alongside. The fact that he and Magneto are sp friendly is a testament to how far the character has come, undergoing extreme circumstances and seemingly overcoming the various traumas that once shattered his mind.
While Peeper and Magneto worked well together in their Brotherhood days, this is the first real evidence of a lasting friendship between the pair, much to the surprise and mild horror of Magneto's former confidant Fabian Cortez.
While Peeper and Magneto, Peeper tells Magneto that he has some ideas he would like to run by the Quiet Council of Krakoa, which Magneto is happy to oblige. X of Swords saw a slew of underpowered, and underestimated mutants find strengths in themselves that they previously didn't know they had, and the mutant nation of Krakoa has been tireless in their efforts to make sure every mutant is properly utilized. In this new day and age for mutant kind, Peeper is clearly the newest mutant to keep an eye on.
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