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The Original X-Men Are Coming Back, but Only One Is Staying
The X-Men turn 60 this year, and Marvel is celebrating in style by killing a bunch of them in a horrifying terrorist attack, kickstarting the downfall of an age of Mutant progress, and now by returning to an idea they first did a decade ago. Sounds about right for the heroes forever fighting for a…
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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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Captain Krakoa’s Origin Story Is All About How Cyclops Got Played
Ever since mutantkind became ascendant in the Dawn of X — and the establishment of the mutant nation state Krakoa — enemies of the children of the atom have been lying in wait to strike out at mutants all over the place. But one with sinister connections to mutantkind’s greatest foe has been revealed, and…
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It’s Time to Vote for Another (Impossibly Minor) X-Men Member Again
While the real world goes to hell, there’s a comfort — a very small, cold comfort — in knowing that democracy is still holding strong somewhere, namely over at Marvel Comics. Well, not really Marvel Comics, just the X-Men… and even then, that’s kind of overselling it. Look, you just get to elect the team’s…