Good catch. That opening page is full of symbolism... the eye classically represents provenance/omniscient power (“all seeing/knowing”). Also note the literal strongman in the scene. For some reason, I found the smallish carnival barker in the foreground distracting the first time I saw the page. Like he meant something but I couldn’t quite figure it out. It’s an out-of-the-ordinary setting, for sure.
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Was not interested with this one as much but way way 100 times better then what we had in so long before HOX and this.
Nimrod.... Lol i can not get pass that face xD
Yes that Carnival Barker is bugging me. But it could just be the outstretched arms and the arms of the strong man which along with the tents literally draw a line across the panel, dividing the grounded people from the birds, the trees and the tower, with the eye on that line and only balloons seeking to escape. It all feels like a very deliberate composition. Especially as white bird sillohettes are seen on the last page in the biodome Eden.
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I'm rereading it and has it been brought up that Moira could be Rasputin? Just looking at the art on the page where xavier reads her mind she looks like a mister of kitty/colossus. lol
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Agreed, this is not the first time Magneto teams up with Xavier or Scott to help develop a mutant community or nation(Utopia,Genosha) so I donīt think thatīs whatīs bothering him but if Charles is asking something in exchange to mutants like Mystique and Sabretooth because they owe something, to belong to Krakoa, it begs the question of what he asked Magneto in exchange of being part of it and even have a sector with his name.
Next PoX issue is titled "Hello old friend" so maybe we will see a little more of xavier and magneto relationship in this story.
"To the X-men then, who donīt die the old fashioned way and no matter how hard we try, none of us die forever" Uncanny X-Men #270, Jean and Ororo
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I'm not convinced that these are humans in the "zoo." I think there is a possibility that those are mutants (the one figure could pass for Logan IMO), and that the terrarium might be a recreation of "what worked" in the generations prior. I think Hickman might be wanting people to wonder if the Krakoa era X-Men might actually be the terrarium that the Librarian is watching over? It's a stretch, but that's the first thing my mind thought of when I read that last page.
I suspect Hickman is slightly hinting at circular time. Cardinal talks about “See you when the world is made again” which combined with the apparent obsession with creation myths and a Tower of Babel / Garden of Eden recurring idea could suggest we see both the future and the past.
I am also struck by the echoes of Moira’s green dress and golden earrings in Cylobel’s costume. Is she a survivor from a previous cycle of time?
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Yes, Logan would call him that or maybe Scott.Makes we wonder if Xavier is the "Old Man" Logan is referring to on Asteriod K. If this is Xavier's story then it would not be out of the possibility that Hickman has him surviving.
Maybe Cylobelīs mind travelled back in time like Kitty did in DOFP and itīs changing the future.I am also struck by the echoes of Moira’s green dress and golden earrings in Cylobel’s costume. Is she a survivor from a previous cycle of time?
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Magneto: The master of magnetism Appreciation 2022
Polaris: The Mistress of Magnetism Appreciation 2022
House of M Appreciation 2022
Have to agree. The ending 1,000 years in the future where mutants have herded humans into a preserve (reserve) was a bit uncomfortable. Not offensive, but made me iffy on the mutants.
A case of no real progression being made. Just the shoe going on another foot. in years -which really never was progress imo
Like the abused becoming the abuser. If someone was physically abused as a child, you feel bad for them. But should they grow up & become the same, or even worse, the sympathy tends to be lost among most. SO mutants look more like the villains in 1,000 years.
I hope we do. Humanity is trash it be nice and poignant for the mutants to realize they're not that different from homo sapiens when push comes to shove especially with Magneto's holier than thou attitude.
But that probably too cynical for what Hickman is going for.
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I guess, though, that Hickman is going less for socially constructed identities in the hiearchies as we know them today, and more toward an analogy between neanderthals and homosapiens. It could be that mutant (or whatever the blue people are) domination came about after the decline of humans, not necessarily as the cause for the decline. Idk, i think it's a slippery slope lol