powers of x
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Mystique’s Tragic Love Story Could Threaten The X-Men’s Future
Marvel’s Dawn of X event began by establishing who the world’s most influential mutant power players truly were: people like Moira MacTaggart, whose gifts afforded them unique perspectives and insights about the past, present, and future. Moira spent multiple lifetimes searching for a way to ensure the mutant species’ eternal survival and ultimately managed to…
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House Of X Ends With A New Hope For The X-Men, And New Fears
So much of Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz, Marte Gracia, Clayton Cowles and Tom Muller’s work on House of X has been laden with a sense of alien, haunting dread. While some of that lingers in what its final issue lays out, it mostly invites us and mutantkind to consider an alternate: perchance to hope for…
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Mr. Sinister’s High Camp Perfectly Cuts Through The Drama Of Powers Of X
So far, Jonathan Hickman’s bold re-envisioning of the X-Men’s place at Marvel Comics in House and Powers of X has been exactly that: bold. It has audaciously upturned everything we ever thought we knew about them, it has plunged headlong into esoteric ideas. Last week, it wanted to remind us it is still very, very…
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A New Sacrifice Gives House And Powers Of X’s Main Character A Fascinating New Mission
For the past two weeks, Marvel’s bold X-Men event series has taken a pause from its truly bonkers acts of revelation to spend a little time in the future. This week it seems that interlude came to an end with an act of sacrifice to ensure that the very intriguing plans of Moira MacTaggert can…