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Yet Again, the X-Men are Going Back to Basics
It’s time: Marvel is wiping the X-Men’s slate clean of the Krakoan era that’s been around since 2019. We’ve known this was coming for a while now (both in the comics and IRL), and after an ominous tease of the mutants rising from the ashes of their still ongoing war with Orchis, we now know…
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Moira MacTaggert Is Becoming One of the X-Men’s Most Horrifying Villains
Moira MacTaggert’s fall from grace in the Krakoan Age of the X-Men has been as rapid as it has been brutal. In a matter of months since the Inferno event that saw Jonathan Hickman bid adieu to the X-line, Moira has gone from the long-lived saviour of the Mutant dream to a bitter, vengeful force…
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How to Get Into the X-Men’s Amazing Age of New Comics
It’s been a few years now, but it’s hard to imagine a world without the X-Men and their fellow, now significantly merrier mutants, living their lives on the sentient island Krakoa. The Dawn of X has been very kind to mutant and reader alike, thrusting the X-Men into a level of prominence in the comics…
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The X-Men’s New Destiny Has Found Itself Some Peacekeepers
Mutantkind’s revitalization at Marvel Comics in the Dawn, Reign, and now Destiny of X — something that has given mutants a secluded home and status as a global superpower on the sovereign, living island of Krakoa — has raised all sorts of fascinating questions about what it means for the publisher’s oft-persecuted minority group to…