Powers of x #1 Preview (with truths)

[spirit2011]

I kept telling everyone that Hickman is a filthy liar who says nothing true.

He said he lied

[Woozie]

He said he lied

I know. It's just people have kept acting like Hickman ever tells anything true about the stories he writes.

[jwatson]

So who's gonna teach them how to do the fusion dance Goku or Piccolo?

Probably Xavier, he looks like he was practicing the fusion dance on that panel before "to me my x-men"

[phoenixzero23]

I kept telling everyone that Hickman is a filthy liar who says nothing true.

Well, creators lie all the time, specially to not spoil anything.

[cranger]

Sometimes I think that Hickman is not lying about anything except saying he lied, he just said he was so we would be thrown off any ideas we had settled on.

[greyspawn]

I'm pretty sure if people were told that there would be grown mutants living in a Utopia a few weeks ago they would have been complaining. Sounds very familiar just done better.

[ISnowNothin]

Also it made it sound like the woman was implanted with a black seed to be an special brand of telepath rather than Cardinal planting a seed as a telportation escape to Karoka.

I don't think they inform one another at all. The dialogue about Cylobel remains unchanged in both versions. It's still "Bred as a black brain telepath," even with the additional dialogue about the black seed of Krakoa.

[Askani's Flame]

I think people are waaay to hung up on this lying business. He's a storyteller trying to not reveal too much about his story before it is published. It's not as if he's the president of a nation or anything.

[Rzerox21xx]

when I saw Cardinal first, in appearance, I thought Kurt was going through a secondary mutation

[phoenixzero23]

Rasputin feels weird (I liked Steel Magik better) I hope that is just a code name and we can learn her true name soon.

[loke13]

I don't think they inform one another at all. The dialogue about Cylobel remains unchanged in both versions. It's still "Bred as a black brain telepath," even with the additional dialogue about the black seed of Krakoa.

The new dialogue does seem to suggest that Cylobel had a pretty blood soaked past before turning over a new leaf thanks to Rasputin.

Rasputin feels weird (I liked Steel Magik better) I hope that is just a code name and we can learn her true name soon.

It's just because that's the name we've been using for months Rasputin will grow on ya.

[ISnowNothin]

The new dialogue does seem to suggest that Cylobel had a pretty blood soaked past before turning over a new leaf thanks to Rasputin.

That's true! From what we've seen, combining the unchanged dialogue from their human hunters and her new dialogue about her past, it seems like she's been bred by humans to use against her own, rather than come from Krakoa.

[billee0918]

I hope Rasputin has a cool codename!

[Gav]

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

[ISnowNothin]

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

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.