I guess its just me... maybe a few others...
but this issue and
just this issue (not the entire narrative that hickman is weaving)
Its poison.
This issue for all its awesome appearances and some of the coolest uses of powers since... hell just SINCE!
Its the story about the subjugation of the X-mens ideology, and the adoration of 1/2 everything they've stood against for all these years... the other half being staving off endless
and needless editorial driven extinction plots.
Metaphorically its offensive, and maybe a bit "disgusting" if I'm honest.
So... the dream of MLK was wrong, the dream of the every Separatist Fredrick Douglas to Richard Spencer was right.
If that statement starts to build rage or contempt in you after a couple of moments consideration, then for quick second realize its good be alarmed.
A feeling of outrage at your favorite heroes and their franchise being compared to the worst of the modern facists means youre still saying sane.
See I love the X-men, always have... the struggle to do what right even when the odds were against them is what made them heroes.
And I never understood why soooo many people would come and bitch about the characterization of the Illuminati in time runs out. I get it now though.
Hickman is a genius. Powerful writing. Elicits powerful emotions.
I didn't like seeing it.
I didn't like seeing storm give a speech with all of mutantdom responding "SIEG HEIL!" (MUTANT!!!) but I could hear it NOT in Reverend Ororo T. Jakes speech but in that full old german shout back.
I didn't like the thing that unites mutantkind being
"I know lets just give our mutant villians everything they want!"
Magneto "Separatist Supremacist Nation"
En Sabah Nur - Mutants United for Dominance of Earth
Sinister - All the genetic engrams of all the mutants to "play with" ...
and yeah... there's mad men and cult leaders, cannibals, and vamipres... but hey we're all the same RACE!
Not like those filthy human* cockroaches outside. *but you can insert any people who were stepped on after a vengeful regime took power.
So as of right now this story... is about the Unified Fascist Mutant State. See... historically most fascism start with the justification "We are the injured party! So whatever we do from here is just come uppance"
Followed by "HERE IS THE SUPERIORITY OF OUR CULTURE!"
and then... the conflicts start... but you can tell by magnetos previous speeches he's still the same old tyrant thinking of mutants as "...their new Gods"
and yeah. . . I get it...
The Xmen needed a WIN... BADLY.
But ideologically, and dare I say... Heroically...
This is probbably the worst defeat I've EVER seen Xaviers dream suffer.*
... and I owned THIS book pretty early on
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/What_If%3F_Vol_2_13
Well... at least wakanda is unconquered.
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