That was an engaging issue. Short but it was snappy and the constant changing of art styles flowed a lot smoother than one would expect. I gotta give Duggan props for creating a more unique and unexpected scenario than the typical mutant genocides we’re used to. Xavier forcefully marching every mutant off earth in a mass exodus towards some unknown fate made for a somber and visually memorable sequence. The mutant trail of tears, you could call it. And I like that he’s making all of the “Firestar is a cop and a traitor” memes into an actual subplot. This will be the most interesting development Angelica has had in years.
The only thing that kind of irked me was the killing of Jubes and Dazzler. R.I.P. the X-terminators. I see the x-office is still finding subtle ways to screw over Leah Williams work.
I have to agree, it's a comic book first and foremost; what exactly were readers expecting? Did people really expect mutants to dominate forever, to constantly be winning and having everything go their way? That was a foolish expectation. Could the story have been executed better, most definitely but this is Duggan we're talking about so it is what it is.
As far as the mutants being defeated so easily, well this is what power creep gets you. When you have all-powerful omegas who can do basically anything, mutant circuits, unlimited deaths and everything else who can possibly, believably go toe to toe with Krakoa? All I'm seeing is posters saying this mutant could have done this or that mutant could have done that and Orchis would have been defeated. And then what back to the gala for the main course. Writers have written mutants into a corner with the inane power levels of mutantkind, I'm sure if Galactus, Thanos, or some cosmic entities attacked the gala posters would have the same reaction, that the mutants were jobbed by plot induced stupidity or hack writing. You guys have convinced yourselves that Krakoa could and should never lose. Again this is a comic book, good guys face trials and tribulations, suffer setbacks and beat downs, only to come back stronger and defeat the bad guys; rinse and repeat.
No one is permanently dead, not Jean not Bobby not anyone. Some may be off the board for a bit but they will be back eventually. But at this point its like if mutants even stub their toes it's some slight against them, we all knew this was coming, hell it could have been worse. But this is the nature of comics, overcoming adversity, although I'm sure there are those who would prefer the x-books to be about nation building, governance and slice of life vignettes about the average mutant on Krakoa. Don't know how well those books would sell though.
And in the end, the mutants will all be saved by one Inhuman.
No, not that one. The other one. I can feel it!
“Generally, one knows me before hating me” -Quicksilver
Bottom line, this story was like Avengers: The Crossing, Avengers Disassembled, Decimation, and X-Men Disassembled combined!
“Generally, one knows me before hating me” -Quicksilver
It’s pretty funny that Orchis’s massive victory against the mutants was just to make them go somewhere else for a bit. Any student of Sun Tzu could tell you that a retreat is not the same thing as a surrender, just as the Dunkirk evacuation was far from the end of World War 2 in Europe.
Every single thing they achieved in this issue is fully reversible, including the deaths. Particularly the deaths, as Iceman are Jean are coming straight back, and the Five escaped to who-knows-where.