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It’s tough to be a mutant, X-Men or not, in the Marvel Universe right now. But what would you do to press a big Krakoa reset button?
Article Summary
- Mutants use Native American reservations as a sanctuary from Orchis.
- Sabretooth leads an attack on Krakoa, facing off against Sentinels.
- Future of X-Men explored: Ms Marvel’s rise & the absence of mutants on Earth.
- Discussion of Krakoa’s fate and potential plot twists in X-Men comics.
It’s tough to be a mutant, X-Men or not, in the Marvel Universe right now. Even the suggestion that someone might be such is enough to enrage a mob, as in today’s Sentry #2. That’s even without the giant robot Sentinels coming to get you.
But on Marvel Unlimited X-Men #121, some mutants who also happen to be Native Americans have found a loophole to get away from Orchis, on Native American reservations.
While Sabretooth – all of him – heads to Krakoa in today’s Wolverine to kick off their big fight over the next several issues.
And yes, the place is overrun with those big robots.
Not even the big X-Men psychics can get past them.
Basically you’d have to be as stupid as Sabretooth to avoid their glare. While Rise Of The Powers Of X #1 takes a look at the future of everyone.
And there aren’t any mutants left on Earth. The X-Men sees Ms Marvel getting a promotion, Tony Stark just a retaining AI, what happened to Kate Pryde after she ingested a Death Seeds given to Celestial-appointed evolutionary caretakers, such as Apocalypse. And we have both Old Man Synch and still-looking-fresh Wolverine.
The Hellfire Club of the present refits Winter Soldier, Black Widow and White Widow as they at least try and pretend to be mutants in Thunderbolts #2.
Orchis have no reservations about taking on Native American mutants but, like Typhoid Mary over in Amazing Spider-Man, more of the Realm Of X refugees of Vanaheim have returned…
The Sabretooths get hungry for some Omega Mutants. Will we get one last run at resurrection for Quentin Quire or is this it?
Because Quentin doesn’t seem to have turned up ten years into this future. How much of it remains, that is. Previously, upcomonhg X-Men editor Tom Brevoort posted “Everybody is not going to be happy. It’s impossible. There isn’t that much consensus among X-MEN fans. (I got a message from somebody else who begged me to maintain the current Krakoa status quo, who stated without hyperbole that “99% of X-Men fans love Krakoa.” I didn’t respond to this—I don’t really respond to any of it at this point—but my answer would have been, “Yeah, maybe 99% of the X-Men fans that you hear from. My polling data is a little bit more divided.”
Previously Bleeding Cool heard that “the new X-Men era won’t reboot Krakoa away, so don’t expect the death of a remaining Moira Mactaggert clone to reset the timeline. It can’t, it would have to reset the whole Marvel Comics timeline.” And then Kieron Gillen wrote this for RB Silva to draw.
Now they might be able to get rid of the Rise Of The Powers Of X timeline by killing a teenage Moria Mactaggert, but all the way to before Krakoa like some 4chan posters have claimed? As far as I know, that’s just not happening. Let alone killing a Scottish teenager before her first, well, anything pretty much. But what do I know? Is Kieron gearing up to prove me wrong and 4chan right? It could happen… but to all the Krakoa haters out there, would you kill an innocent teenager to prevent it? Only you know the answer to that..
RISE OF THE POWERS OF X #1
MARVEL COMICS
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(W) Kieron Gillen (A/CA) R. B. Silva
THE FIGHT FOR KRAKOA HAS BEEN LOST!
Ten years ago, the mutants returned from their exile to try and reclaim the Earth from the forces of Orchis. They failed. Now, within the victorious Orchis with their gauntlet choking the world, Nimrod and Omega Sentinel put their plan within a plan into action. They are to summon their binary god to consume everything in their accession. All that stands between them is the X-Men. What can they do? They’re the X-Men. They’ll find a way. That’s their power. So begins a story beyond time and space, with the rise of powers beyond our petty human intelligence. From writer Kieron Gillen (IMMORTAL X-MEN, UNCANNY X-MEN) and artist R.B. Silva (POWERS OF X, CAPTAIN AMERICA: SYMBOL OF TRUTH) comes half of the story that will bring the Krakoa Age to its conclusion! Rated T+In Shops: Jan 10, 2024 SRP: $5.99SENTRY #2
MARVEL COMICS
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(W) Jason Loo (A) Zagaria, Luigi (CA) Ben Harvey
As more people begin manifesting Sentry’s powers, it’s all Misty Knight and Jessica Jones can do to keep track of the incidents, let alone discover any connections between them. Meanwhile, each new Sentry must reckon with their newfound abilities – and what this newfound power means for who they will become. Unfortunately, one of them isn’t a team player… Rated T+In Shops: Jan 10, 2024 SRP: $3.99THUNDERBOLTS #2
MARVEL COMICS
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(W) Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing (A) Geraldo Borges (CA) Terry Dodson
THE REVOLUTION VS. THE KINGPIN!
When Contessa Valentina Allegra De Fontaine gets word that Kingpin will be overseeing the transfer of the Red Skull’s fortune at the notorious Hellfire Club, Bucky Barnes enlists the aid of his favorite masters of infiltration – a symbiote-equipped Black Widow and a dressed-to-impress Yelena Belova, the White Widow! But to rob the Red Skull of his ill-gotten gains, they’ll have to go through Wilson Fisk…and that didn’t go too well for Bucky last time… Rated T+In Shops: Jan 10, 2024 SRP: $3.99WOLVERINE #41
MARVEL COMICS
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(W) Ben Percy, Victor Lavalle (A) Cory Smith, Geoff Shaw (CA) Leinil Yu
SABRETOOTH WAR BEGINS HERE! THE MOST VIOLENT WOLVERINE STORY EVER TOLD!
Get ready for the showdown to end all showdowns – WOLVERINE VS. SABRETOOTH! It’s been years since these heavy hitters have crossed paths in the Marvel Universe, but as Krakoa falls, so rises SABRETOOTH – and he’s out for revenge! They threw VICTOR CREED in the PIT, but he’s free and, wielding an army of Sabretooths, will prove once and for all why he is LOGAN’s ultimate nemesis. Co-written by literary powerhouses Benjamin Percy (WOLVERINE, GHOST RIDER) and Victor LaValle (The Changeling, SABRETOOTH) and drawn by artistic dynamos Cory Smith (CONAN, GHOST RIDER) and Geoff Shaw (WEAPONS OF VENGEANCE, WOLVERINE: PATCH), don’t miss the inaugural issue in this multi-shipping saga leading up to the landmark issue #50! Rated T+In Shops: Jan 10, 2024 SRP: $4.99X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic (2021) #121
Published: January 08, 2024
Writer: Steve Orlando, Steve Foxe
Penciller: Nick Roche
Cover Artist: Nick Roche
“Fall of X” tie-in! The start of a new arc sees Thunderbird: John Proudstar and Warpath: James Proudstar return home to Camp Gozhoo. But when Orchis comes knocking, the Proudstar brothers must knock some heads together!
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