Powers of x #1 Preview (with truths)

[loke13]

A story set in the future =/= a time travel story.

It does if Adult Franklin is involved. The man can't help but jump through the time stream.

[Uncanny X-Man]

Thankfully we're getting either HOX or POX every week, I don't think I could bear to wait any longer than that.

[loke13]

Thankfully we're getting either HOX or POX every week, I don't think I could bear to wait any longer than that.

Right? Kinda reminds me of Dissembled when they released 1 issue a week for 10 weeks, except you know the story is actually GOOD.

[Frobisher]

This is totally true!

Where's the lie? We haven't been shown a time travel story yet. The only reason to assume it would be to take covers as literal, which makes zero sense, covers are notoriously unreliable as indicators of the story's content.

Hickman said Powers of X is like the film Powers of Ten, zooming in and zooming out on the world at a micro and macro scale, and that would make sense here as a term of scale of time.

What if instead of zooming in and out, Powers of X goes forward and backward in time, since he's described the series as about the history of Mutants/X-Men in the Marvel Universe.

I think it's simpler than time travel, or any of the other theories, we're just getting Hickman's Days of Future Past/Here Comes Tomorrow, in a way.

Good catch, and note that the first caption says X^1, just like the powers of ten in the film.

Also, Red Kurt’s man bag is a seed satchel.

[RachelGrey]

Right? Kinda reminds me of Dissembled when they released 1 issue a week for 10 weeks, except you know the story is actually GOOD.

That's what makes me happy too. Every week we get a piece of the story.

I love the amount of conversation that HoX/PoX and DoX is causing. It's like suddenly everyone is excited about the X-Men again, and even with the people who dislike the new direction, we are still having lots of discussion and debate.

Look how many threads have erupted on this forum and then you have the single character threads of many characters are all really active too.

[Tank]

I kinda dont care about another dystopian future or more new characters. I wish it would just continue in the present.

[Omega Alpha]

I kinda dont care about another dystopian future or more new characters. I wish it would just continue in the present.

I'm sure Hickman is doing this for a reason, though.

[loke13]

I kinda dont care about another dystopian future or more new characters. I wish it would just continue in the present.

I'm sure Hickman is doing this for a reason, though.

Yeah it all one big story. The two books compliment each other, Hickman said that as the story goes further the two books are gonna become more intertwined until they eventually smash together.

[ISnowNothin]

From the solicit for Powers of X released as early as April 18th:

"FEAR THE FUTURE
Intertwining with HOUSE OF X, POWERS OF X reveals the secret past, present and future of mutantkind, changing the way you look at every X-Men story before and after. You do not want to miss the next seminal moment in the history of the X-Men!"

They've told us this story goes into the future literally from the beginning.

[butterflykyss]

it would seem all the mutants living on krakoa DNA will eventually be harvested to create new mutants. I'm not seeing this as a time travel story where anyone from the future goes back to the past. at least not yet.

[jwatson]

it would seem all the mutants living on krakoa DNA will eventually be harvested to create new mutants. I'm not seeing this as a time travel story where anyone from the future goes back to the past. at least not yet.

I don't think it's a time travel story either. IT could be that someone is seeing the orcale and the oracle (Destiny) is giving 100 years of mutant history. Or we are seeing the possible future. Telling a story of the future is not the same as time travel.

[PrezValentine]

There's no time travel involved, Powers of X will apparentely only alternate between the present and the future that will unfold, should the actions of Xavier, Sinister and possibly Moira keep going without anything preventing the bad outcomes.

[butterflykyss]

I don't think it's a time travel story either. IT could be that someone is seeing the orcale and the oracle (Destiny) is giving 100 years of mutant history. Or we are seeing the possible future. Telling a story of the future is not the same as time travel.

oh the Oracle idea is a good one. yea I could definitely see that as well.

[Bruce Wayne]

There's no time travel involved, Powers of X will apparentely only alternate between the present and the future that will unfold, should the actions of Xavier, Sinister and possibly Moira keep going without anything preventing the bad outcomes.

It's also suggested we'll see the past of mutantkind. And Sinister is always tied in with that as Carey, Nicieza and Milligan have shown. Maybe we'll get some further development on Alamogordo.

[RachelGrey]

I don't think it's a time travel story either. IT could be that someone is seeing the orcale and the oracle (Destiny) is giving 100 years of mutant history. Or we are seeing the possible future. Telling a story of the future is not the same as time travel.

OOH, that gives me a thought, I wonder if Mystique is totally on board with Krakoa because it gives her Destiny back. Perhaps a younger Destiny too.