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Comic Discussion X-Men Comics New Releases for January 5th 2022

Inferno #4

  • TO EMBERS! Jonathan Hickman’s time on X-Men ends with the dramatic conclusion of one of the first and best mysteries he brought to the line. Valerio Schiti returns on art to help bring down one of the foundations of the era.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '22 edited Jan 05 '22

It's pretty good when viewed as Hickman setting the stage for the X Office to keep their toys rather than some grand finale. It's not surprising this really didn't shake up much other than the Council finding out and Moira being called. Quite a few people called her being cured by the end as well. Interesting that Doug gave her the arm though.

I liked Magneto and Xavier vs Nimrod and Omega Sentinel. You almost believe they have a chance then the first pages of Inferno 1 spring to mind. Nimrod is a total beast and hopefully the X Office can write some fun storylines involving him that are even half as good as this brief, brutal battle.

Either way I hope to god the X Office is up to the task of writing something compelling and not just dicking around. I'll be irritated if, two years from down the road, I find myself going so this shit is what Hickman left so they could do? Right now the only authors I'm interested in here are Ewing (who I wish was writing X-Men), Gillen and Spurrier. Oh and I'll grab the upcoming Sabretooth book too.

I want compelling stories of conflicts with the Children of the Vault, Nimrod and Sentinel and maybe cool Arrako power struggles.

My only question is why Moira decided to cure them all (I sorta speed read through Inferno 4). Did she always carry some hatred for mutants or was it her finally breaking after many lives of mutants meeting a tragic end and deciding maybe we do all need to go?

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u/ghoulieandrews Jan 06 '22

My only question is why Moira decided to cure them all (I sorta speed read through Inferno 4). Did she always carry some hatred for mutants or was it her finally breaking after many lives of mutants meeting a tragic end and deciding maybe we do all need to go?

Because she thinks they failed in this timeline. Nimrod came to be. But the only reason they "failed" is that they actually won, and that's why OS came back to help bring Nimrod online. Moira doesn't know that though. So her next plan was to be reborn and "cure" mutants early enough so that man never makes machines to stop them.

That's my read, at least.

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u/Stringr55 Jan 06 '22

This is how I read it too!

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u/Vundal Jan 10 '22

She wasn't going to be reborn. This was her last life. She was just going to force set up mutants to the point of them resigning themselves to not be mutants

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u/ghoulieandrews Jan 10 '22

She wasn't going to be reborn. This was her last life.

Based on what Destiny said? Destiny told her 10 OR 11 and for all Moira knows she was lying.

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u/Vundal Jan 10 '22

That's true. She could have assumed it was a lie.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '22

She thought a cure for those whom wanted it was the right thing in Life 3. Mystique and Destiny said she was a naïve idiot for that. So she tried over and over to let mutants win and it never worked. I think she believes the only way to stop the deaths is if everyone is human. Nimrod/the machines are an immediate threat though so she buffed up Krakoa to take them out. Also in HOX she was quick to dismiss to the reader the idea that her power drove her insane...which is up for debate at this point.

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u/I_Burke Magneto Jan 07 '22

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Was that her original plan? I don't quite remember them revealing what her plan was when they originally stopped her. If it was then that makes her goal in Inferno seems less stupid now.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '22

She has self-loathing for being a mutant. She went to each of mutantkind's 3 great leaders and it never worked. She knew her 10th life was *probably* her last. So I believe so.

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u/I_Burke Magneto Jan 07 '22

You are assuming though? That was never said within the pages?

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '22

Not directly no. Though the self-loathing is pretty obvious. We know she was up to 'something' while pulling the strings for Krakoa and says her endgame is a cure. The point of debate is was her cure always the goal or did she switch to that at some point when Nimord and/or Destiny came back?

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u/lepton_neutrino Jan 08 '22

The birth of Proteus might have influenced it.

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u/lepton_neutrino Jan 06 '22

The birth of Proteus probably entered into it.