“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
Well Hickman seems to be going out of his way to push this narrative of "pretender". Your right that Cassandra Nova is never mentioned but then again when you have the man who orchestrated the morlock massacre and unleashed the legacy virus, as well as the woman involved with the mothervine fiasco and sold out fellow mutants to save her ass from General Callahan living with and being on the ruling council it makes no sense.
im surprised so many people think hickmans era is just going make wanda the bad guy for the whole thing. sure he's going very negative with it right now but honestly imo he seems to be doing that for an inevitable heel turn that she wasn't the monster she's been out to be. you cant set up the moira plot that has her going into hiding only a couple months before house of m happens (in universe) to make sure certain things happen and then have wanda in the care of the only two people in on moiras plan right before she changes mutant kind so drastically and just say it was a coincidence and none of it was planned by moira and charles.
as for the main topic i like it so far but its getting a little boring in some areas, maybe some roster shake ups might help
Its been almost 2 years. Im surprised Hickman has done NOTHING with Moira X since POX. No teases, no mentions, no building of her story in the background. She's been a nonfactor this era and I really thought we would have seen more buildup to her eventual return especially considering she is the reason the current status quo exists
It's puzzeling indeed.
You'd think that even if things got slowed down intentionaly for the sake of getting the most out of the hype created by Hox/Pox, especialy with the almost dozen of satelite titles entirely tied to the new status quo, that there would still be at least some involvement of Moira X.
Like at least some scenes of Xavier and Magneto giving her a status report and hearing her concerns or approval of how things progress. But this utter silence except for that tiny cameo in Ten of Swords feels weird.
I know many enjoy the status quo as is and like how every nook and cranny of it's working is attempted to be explained in the satelite titles, but there are also many people who primarily got invested into the events from Hox/Pox not because of the current status quo but of the story revolving around it's creation and potential downfall, which is all tied to Moira X (or at least implied to be so).