Orchis is a consortium of scientists attempting to build Omega Sentinels to eradicate mutantkind. The opening chapter has the X-Men cleaning up one of the last Orchis stations left on Earth. Many of these issues center around Scott Summers and his extended family, hinting a new paradigm of how mutants have redefined what family can mean. I was reminded of some of Grant Morrison’s work when he takes a twist on a familiar character or throws in a wild new element and sees how the characters react to it. When you get to the end, you are chomping at the bit to see what comes next because there is such rich potentiality in all these things.
Each issue is a stand-alone tale that explores a relationship or a new concept. Hickman doesn’t tell a sweeping arc in these six issues instead, they are table setting and world-building. This is where the fifth volume of X-Men opens, a brand new world. We also learned in that mini-series how the mutants have overcome death, using Professor Xavier’s Cerebro computer and Krakoa’s regenerative properties to regrow dead mutants complete with all their memories.
Now with their new-found sovereign nation status and the ability to grow medicinal plants that could change the survival rates of numerous diseases, they leveraged a place at the tables of power. The mutants had finally dropped their petty squabbles and coalesced into one community, relocating to the living mutant island of Krakoa. Silva, and Matteo BuffagniĪfter Jonathan Hickman’s magnificent House of X/Powers of X reboot of the X-titles’ status quo, it was clear the classic Marvel characters were headed in a brand-new direction. X-Men by Jonathan Hickman Volume 1 (2020)Īrt by Francis Lenil Yu, R.B.
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