That would be a helluva good series. Like a mutant sinister six.
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That would be a helluva good series. Like a mutant sinister six.
Yeah, Apocalypse is already realizing that Xavier's methods aren't lining up with his own goals.
Mutant supremacist cells are inevitably going to rise up on Krakoa.
The current Runaways book uses the same font. It's highly unlikely to be a hint at anything.
man, this ain't even the best book to come out this year.
All of the questionable vibes being thrown have me even more interested than unsettled because shit is probably going to hit the fan on a pretty huge scale at some point.
Vic gonna be mad as fuck whenever he inevitably comes back tho
Vic gonna be mad as fuck whenever he inevitably comes back tho
This has been a great series and I can't wait to see how it ends.
Which of the spinoff series is everyone going to be reading? I'm thinking X-Men and X-Force, maybe Excalibur as I'm curious of what Apocalypse on a team will be like.
Which of the spinoff series is everyone going to be reading? I'm thinking X-Men and X-Force, maybe Excalibur as I'm curious of what Apocalypse on a team will be like.
Sinister is gonna fuck things up big time. "What? I thought the law was ´Make more mutants´"
Creed exacerbated his situation by disobeying direct mission orders
Eh, you don't need to try to square the Creed thing. The fact of the matter is that they made an example of him and, for the moment, there's nothing he can do about that. It reads dubiously because that's exactly what it is: Morally dubious.
And that's applicable to a lot of the book. These kinds of things are inevitable in the founding and administration of any state, as is blowback.
And that's applicable to a lot of the book. These kinds of things are inevitable in the founding and administration of any state, as is blowback.
Especially because there's an evil krakoa
and Krakoa could have a special allegiance to Apocalypse
I guess, but they still only made it a mutant crime after the fact. Not that creed doesn't deserve his fate of course.
Eh Creed disobeyed direct orders and if you want to be technical he did it after becoming a citizen unlike the the others
It's morally dubious but on the other hand fuck Sabertooth no one should feel sorry for him
Get rid of the 616 version, collect the AoA version.
That would probably be the core premise of an Exiles book in this era - collecting mutants missing from the library. Notable AU mutants, better versions of unsalvageable 616 mutants, etc.
Definite:
X-Men - obligatory monthly/biweekly pull unless Hickman does something that I really hate
New Mutants - at least sticking around for the first arc, if the non 80s squad stuff is lame or if the attention gets fully pulled away from them I'll probably drop it
Marauders - unless the political intrigue flops I'll be there
Fallen Angels - this is actually the most intriguing book to me, people are speculating that this book will be the one to have a focus on mutants having doubts about what's going on (which would make sense for all three of them, though Cable looks to be in X-Men for a while). there has to be something more to it than it just being a sorta Psylocke solo so hopefully that's it.
Maybe:
Excalibur - mite b cool, I'll probably at least check out issue one but it's an easy drop if it doesn't
No
X-Force: I'm actively disinterested in this one, unless I see a lot of praise after the first arc I'm not spending any money on it
In all of these prisoner stories, someone inevitably visits the prisoner a few times and then ends up letting them out. I expect that with Creed. Or maybe Krakoa takes a liking to him or something.
Xavier and Magneto are making a huge play to push the idea of mutant solidarity being the most important thing of all. I would think even Magneto knows that shits like Sinister and maniacs like Apocalypse don't deserve forgiveness. But this is the price they believe must be paid to send the message.
The only question is what contingency plans they have for the inevitable trouble that the usual suspects are going to instigate. Sabertooth wasn't wrong about being used as an example. The first line of defense is the threat being sentenced to pure hell stuffed into the fridge.
No one going to bring up Danger Island on Krakoa Atlantic?
I mean besides the archer joke it's just the Danger Room expanded to an Island.
Well I guess it's actually more like the Danger Grotto expanded out to an island.
Exactly Creed knew exactly what it was, a screw job but when establishing the rules they also needs to show the punishment, since they are all essentially immortal.
Yes the mutant eating inland is the key to it all. You got to give Hickman a lot of credit building this whole thing around Krakoa, Moira, and to a lesser degree Nimrod is the unlikeliest foundation for a reboot ever, but he makes it work.
Given Xavier saying he'll be in "stasis" and specifically "immobile," I don't think he'll be doing much interacting with anyone down there.
I fully expect it to be the solitary confinement cell from Hell, trapped within dirt and rock as Krakoa supplies you with just enough air and nutrients to survive.
Yes because that was a flashback to before even the diplomat visit.
There's a core essence to what the X-Men were (or rather Xavier's dream and his persistent march toward it) that was important to me and I don't recognise it in this series. Maybe Hickman never cared for it? Or thought it so unimportant that he thought it right and proper to erase it?
I just have far too many issues with what Hickman has put into motion. This whole thing seems like a waste. For it to end up as a mutant form of the Inhumans and Attilan? Nah.
As a result no matter how long it persists or what promises are made with regards to long-lasting implications I'm going to consider all of this as existing in isolation. A thing to be unwritten in the future.
I just have far too many issues with what Hickman has put into motion. This whole thing seems like a waste. For it to end up as a mutant form of the Inhumans and Attilan? Nah.
As a result no matter how long it persists or what promises are made with regards to long-lasting implications I'm going to consider all of this as existing in isolation. A thing to be unwritten in the future.
forgive me if this point was already made (few pages behind now) but as a prison abolitionist, how they did creed really doesn't sit well with me
for starters, sending him on a pacifist stealth mission was stupid, punishing him for doing what he he does feels a lot like cap slamming punisher for doing wetwork in civil war but executing criminals right after: this is kinda who they are
moreover, not having prisons is great, but a demolition man-esque eternal torture is supposed to be more humane? i know its comics but this character has been redeemed several times now, once within the last few years too. this was the best they could do, and no one in the room had even slight reservations about it? fuck, i know mystique is cold as ice but damn
for starters, sending him on a pacifist stealth mission was stupid, punishing him for doing what he he does feels a lot like cap slamming punisher for doing wetwork in civil war but executing criminals right after: this is kinda who they are
moreover, not having prisons is great, but a demolition man-esque eternal torture is supposed to be more humane? i know its comics but this character has been redeemed several times now, once within the last few years too. this was the best they could do, and no one in the room had even slight reservations about it? fuck, i know mystique is cold as ice but damn
i mean, for one, it was either this or forever stay in the dead-end that is days of future past vs age of apocalypse type dichotomy, and that well ran dry quite a while back at this point. he needed to do something bold like this, for one.
also: this is hickman, his changes to spy marvel were huge years back, and we still feel the effects of secret war sometimes. everything points to him being in this for the long haul as well...i mean, we ate off the scraps of grant morrison's run for nearly a decade after. i don't feel like this is being waved away for all the kids to go back to the mansion any day soon.
sure sure, he's a homicidal mad dog rapist who spent most of his existence as a character personifying irredeemable evil
but like...they let in selene, and gave apocalypse a seat at the big boy table
if cassandra nova was alive, she'd prolly get a pass
I expect Exiles to be less cross-time capering and more anti-Krakoa rebelling. Xavier even named them.
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same here. I read it as Logan being okay with Scott and Jean. Jean & Emma burying the hatchet. But clearly Scott and Emma are still into each other. Just setting up more relationship drama.
So Moira has put herself into self-imposed exile, right? That has to be where she's been. They've had to have realized that her dying would undo everything they've put in motion, and they can't take that chance.
I mean of course that's what it actually is. But dare to dream.
Yes she faked her death during the Legacy Virus stuff. Doesn't seem anyone but Magneto and Xavier even know she is a mutant.