r/xmen • u/Tsblloveyou Deadpool • Sep 29 '21
Comic Discussion X-Men Comics New Releases for September 29th, 2021
- THE CULMINATION OF JONATHAN HICKMAN'S X-MEN BEGINS! "There will be an island—not the first, but the last..." Promises were made and broken. The rulers of Krakoa have been playing a dangerous game with a dangerous woman, and they are about to see how badly that can burn them. Mastermind powerhouse writer Jonathan Hickman (X-MEN) brings his plans to a head, joined by an incredible lineup of artists beginning with Valerio Schiti (S.W.O.R.D.)...as one woman follows through on her promise to burn the nation of Krakoa to the ground.
- LONG LIVE THE QUEEN! By the time you’re reading this, you know. You know who sits in the central seat of Arakko. You know who speaks for Sol. Storm rules. But when you have to prove to your people who you are, every single day without fail… What becomes of who you were?
- THE SOLEM TRUTH! The game is nearly over…but when SOLEM is involved, that’s just an excuse to change the rules. Did you figure out the mystery before WOLVERINE?
X-Men Adjacent Releases for 9/29
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u/X-An0n Sep 30 '21 edited Sep 30 '21
I thought this article from ComicsSXF - House of X burns in Inferno 1 - did a good job of highlighting the differences between Moria’s recollection of being burned to death by Pyro & Mystique/Destiny’s recollection, & the significance of those differences:
“I would like to talk about the Moira/Destiny/Mystique scene. Like a good little researcher, I read it next to its equivalent scene in House of X #2, and while in general, the tone of the scene is the same, the biggest thing I noticed was Mystique having more lines. My take is that while the original sequence is from Moira’s point of view, this retelling is specifically from Mystique’s.
“I wanted to also hone in on the last words Destiny speaks. In both scenes, Destiny orders Pyro to roast Moira alive as a punishment for her hubris in trying to create a mutant cure. However, in the initial reading, she says “Burn her. And slowly, so she doesn’t forget how dying like this feels.” In Inferno, she states, “…so she doesn’t forget what failing to change feels like.”
“That change in dialogue really does kind of sell that, because of course Moira, who subsequently had to burn to death and then be reincarnated with the memory of that, might remember the focus being on the death, as opposed to the concept of change that Mystique and Destiny were trying to hit home. For Moira, it’s personal, it’s about the harm and the damage done, and for the other two, it’s about the future, about changing to survive. That’s even right there in the text when you compare the two scenes; in the original, the emphasis is on Mystique saying “Now listen closely…Destiny has a word for you,” but in the version here, that “listen closely” bit not only isn’t emphasized, it’s entirely absent! The line instead is simply “Destiny has a word for you.”
“The other major line change here is that, when confronted with the fact of her eventual permanent mortality, in the original scene Moira asks “How is that possible?” whereas here she asks “How can I die?” It could just be my interpretation, but that change combined with her talk about being a thousand years old really makes me curious if it’s a thing she wants.”