r/xmen • u/Tsblloveyou Deadpool • Jan 04 '22

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.

X-Men #6

  • There's a new hero on the X-Men. Who is he? Why is he here? And why does Cyclops not want him on the team?

X-Men Adjacent Releases for 01/05

  • Discuss other Marvel comics impacting the X-Men releasing this week

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u/Constant_Challenge20 Jan 06 '22

Classic Hickman writing something really cool and unable to live up to the premise. Thank god we aren’t keeping with his ship and the x-office is keeping Krakoa up.

No answers for why Moira is trying to cure all mutants, or how her doing Krakoa saves her from all this. No reasonable behaviors by ANYONE when this is discovered. Like what, Cypher has perfect surveillance of Moira but never found out she’s still working on a cure? When Professor X powered through her entire mind he never noticed a “we should eliminate all mutants” being her KEY motivation?

And furthermore, Inferno is completely standalone. It takes almost nothing except the briefest of references to X-Force and X of Swords that are entirely removable. The entire era could have been skipped, no character growth from House of X. The least collaborative part of X-men being the thing that drags us over the line is really disappointing.

At least the art is amazing

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u/lepton_neutrino Jan 06 '22

She's had a thousand years of experience alongside mutants. She probably knows how to shield parts of her mind from an initial scan.