I feel claustrophobic in the X-universe, now. I’m not a mutant. I’m not persecuted. I don’t need to live on a remote island. And I feel fine with everyone as long as they behave nicely.
The readers don’t need to be traumatized by anything.
“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
"To the X-men then, who don´t 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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At the school it felt like there was a plan for the future. Sort of a 'running to' situation. Krakoa feels more like a 'running away.'
The situation on Krakoa appears to be 'lets drink and screw and react to anyone coming to kill us, but just sort of party down here in the ashes of our dream, which is dead.'
The fact that X-Factor operates out of a place called 'the Boneyard,' which is surrounded by a garden of corpses cloned from their own bodies, just hangs a lampshade on the whole 'party through the apocalypse / shrug at the trauma of our never-ending cycle of deaths' mood going on.
Oh, and I'm a *fan* of this new direction. It's dark AF, and I'm here for it.
i hope they stay on the island forever ... it makes them 1000% more exciting, intriguing and interesting.
“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
How is running away? They are doing he exact opposite, they're finally building something that is uniquely theirs and can't be taken away by humans or simply sold. The school was never a plan for the future, because it could never be a place where they can truly build a community.
Except every story started and ended in the mansion, when it was not entirely set there with someone blowing it up. But if it is for going to other places, in this era they went to space (X-men and New Mutants), the City of the Children of the Vault (X-men), Otherworld (a whole event there, plus Excalibur), Mojoworld (X-factor), fictional Latin American countries (New Mutants and X-force), Russia (X-force), Madripoor (Madauders), and the most exotic place of them all... Davos.
There have been several Hickman stories interacting with the Shi’ar in space, the Marauders literally travel around the world in a boat, CoTA is set entirely outside of the island, Wolverine has been going to Europe and Canada to fight vampires, Excalibur and New Mutants have both gone into Otherworld, SWORD is exploring the edges of the universe... need I go on?
Totally cool that you don’t like the books, you do you. But the books aren’t just on the island.
Last edited by Kingdom X; 04-08-2021 at 06:18 AM.
“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
Genosha was quite different to Krakoa, they didn´t have live saving medicines but they got a mixed human and mutant population that had to get over years of mutant slavery and multiple civil wars and yes the X-men didn´t have anything to do with it.
Utopia was a last resort refuge for mutants so it wasn´t mean to be an actual nation.
I get the criticism on the way they are running things and some stories are done precisely to make the reader ask questions but I honestly can´t find anything wrong in the act of a group of persecuted people finally getting their own place to live in peace, especially when they come from different parts of the world. They don´t need to suffer constantly to be counted as heros just as they didn´t need to suffer in the X-mansion.
"To the X-men then, who don´t die the old fashioned way and no matter how hard we try, none of us die forever" Uncanny X-Men #270, Jean and Ororo
Magneto: The master of magnetism Appreciation 2022
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