So I've been told before, but her actions in early New Mutants always make me see her a bit older than the O5. Still, you might be right.
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Really excited to pick up Powers of X tomorrow after work! This is pretty much my first time getting into comics after a friend recommended that this was a great time to jump into Xmen. I briefly tried to get into some stuff on Marvel Unlimited earlier in the year but it didn't really click in the same way holding a physical book did. Looking forward to reading this tomorrow and hoping it stays easy for people like me to follow!
I'd put her at like 37. Just a hair older than Hank. The rest make a lot of sense.
Yep! That's what I meant when I said my friend told me to hop on to X-men now. My understanding is there's gonna be the two 6 part series and then the "real" stuff launches. I'm a little worried about keeping up or being able to follow backstory stuff but I loved reading House.
Well the thing that throws a wrinkle in all the projected ages even the ones I used to hold is that now apparently the X-Men forms 10 years ago.
Hank was the oldest at 17. Bobby the youngest at 14.
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I remember being on a forum that Chuck Austin posted on when he was writing Uncanny. The question of ages came up, and he said that what editorial told him at the time was that the Original 5 were 27, the Gen X kids were 18-19, and Emma was around 31/32.
Marvel's sliding timescale is "It's always 10 years past the day the Fantastic Four got their powers."
Emma's age was definitely retconned to make her fit in after she joined the X-Men proper(New X-Men, not Generation X)...we're to believe when Emma Frost, as headmistress, approached Kitty's parents to join her Massachusetts school that she was all of 22 or 23 years old or something?
Parts of her are that young though...
Parts of her are that young though...
That is probably about right as Franklin Richards is forever 8-10 years old.
Speaking of variant covers, is there anywhere online where you could order most or all of the variants for House of X #1?
This prompted me to check Comixology on my phone and read the first few pages.
At least my intuition about the meaning of the title seemed to have been right.
The powers of 10 being years, starting with year one.
Before the impressions for the new issue come in, I had some questions about House of X #1. The only stuff I had read before this was Hickman's other books (Secret Warriors, Avengers etc.) so the most recent thing I'm aware of is Secret Wars.
1. Is Sunspot still the owner of AIM? I saw in the Orchis diagram that a lot of their recruits were from AIM and was guessing they were not happy about a mutant being their boss.
2. Where are the Inhumans these days? I saw in HoX that Nightcrawler(?) was planting a Krakoa flower on the moon but last I saw, New Atillan was on Earth before being destroyed. Was wondering what the significance of having a habitat there unless it is just about the mutants wanting to take it as their own.
1. Is Sunspot still the owner of AIM? I saw in the Orchis diagram that a lot of their recruits were from AIM and was guessing they were not happy about a mutant being their boss.
2. Where are the Inhumans these days? I saw in HoX that Nightcrawler(?) was planting a Krakoa flower on the moon but last I saw, New Atillan was on Earth before being destroyed. Was wondering what the significance of having a habitat there unless it is just about the mutants wanting to take it as their own.
Powers of X #1 didn't blow my mind as much as House #1 did but I think that's just because there's a lot to process... Gonna have to reread this a few times, methinks.
Quick little question about the new character, though:
Quick little question about the new character, though:
She's made up of Quentin's, Piotr's/Illyanna's, Kitty's, Laura's X-Genes and... who else? I didn't recognize the fifth one and what their power was.
Holy shit though! That's three of my favorite X-Men in one!
Holy shit though! That's three of my favorite X-Men in one!
I was already in because of Hickman but I didn't came out of House of X super hyped like a lot of people here but this tho? Hype shit, can't wait for more of this.
I mean going by the dialogue they are humans.
At the end of U.S. Avengers, he turned it into a democracy and gave up his stake. Toni Ho was given command. There had been plenty of splinter groups unhappy with being the good guys, most were cleaned up, but there's plenty of ex-AIM out there. (On Unlimited, so I'm 6 months behind)
I assumed it to be humans, no? It's like a wildlife preserve for them.
EDIT: Asked and answered
Is it ever explained how it was put there? I was under the impression Sol's Hammer was built by Stark to counter the Incursions. A later adaption?
That's one of the things we don't know yet, IIRC. But yeah, you're right.
Stark lost control of it during the period when Carol killed him. Damage Control took it over.
Fantastic issue. But no matter how many times I see Charles I'm still weirded out to how much his outfit reminds me of The Maker and I keep getting the feeling Charles is gonna go that route or something.
Not anymore he isn't. The Secret wars time jump added 5 years onto his and Valeria's ages while not aging anyone else in the marvel universe.
We knew they planet Krakoa seeds on Mars in HoX #1, so there was definitely going to be a gate there. Someone else pointed out it was likely near the Gardens established there during Hickman's run on Avengers.
Edit: My take on this is that we're looking at a "future" which is intended to be the "past" of the mutant race.
This timeline had mutantkind eventually come into conflict with the man-machine supremacy, which ended disastrously for mutants due to a number of things Mr. Sinister orchestrated.
By the year 100, the total number of mutants that exist is somewhere around 10,000- almost none of which remain in the Sol system. Nimrod begins building a living archive/collective consciousness of the remaining mutants that exist as they are captured. Charles Xavier and a handful of remaining mutants run a suicide mission which eventually leads to the "surprising" end of the mutant/man-machine supremacy war.
1000 years into the future, what appears to be a highly evolved Xavier is in conversation with a highly evolved version of Nimrod- neither is in conflict with the other and both are in cooperation, however the living collective consciousness Nimrod built appears to be decayed and unsalvageable as it was not designed to maintain data integrity for 1000 years. Homo sapiens largely no longer exists, and mutantkind is likely either highly endangered or virtually extinct. Earth appears to be a tech wasteland.
The opening of the book has "someone" approaching charles Xavier in "year 0" that is referencing characters and events from Year 100- implying that the woman we see in Year 0 is a time traveler sent back to avert all this from happening- approaching a young charles Xavier with knowledge of the future before he forms the Xmen.
So the opening of the book is the last thing that actually happens. I was thinking that the drastic departure of professor X from every previous version of him was due to being resurrected as "X", but I don't think Hickman is leaning on this. I think Hickman is establishing that Charles Xavier radically changes due to being exposed to knowledge of future events in PoX, and the intervention of whoever that is that approaches him during the opening of PoX.
Why he doesn't really change until year 10 is a mystery here though.
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I was so caught up in the hype from all this that during my reread I realized the font has been lowercase. What universe is this taking place in? We're still in 616 right?
Yes. this is not an alternate universe tale, though it does appear to be a time travel one.
Hickman KNOWS you know that. It is so purposeful it hurts. Even the lettering is purposeful.
Something just seems totally off kilter. Wolverine looks really happy and playing with kids. It's a seeming paradise. And then in today's Powers issue,
Magneto hints at Krakoa infecting him with optimism?
These are definitely hints.
Not entirely. We already know that
Sinister is going to be the reason everything falls apart.
It's likely that if he knows what he needs to do, there are very specific moments in time in which he can do them. Just play dumb for the first 8 years, and then start seeding the revolution.
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