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[ย Marvel / DC Comics / Image / Indieย ]ย 10-02-19 House Of X #6
House Of X #6
๐๐ก๐ ๐-๐๐๐ง ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฌ & ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ ๐๐จ ๐๐๐ญ ๐๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐๐๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ญ๐ก๐ง๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ง๐๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ, ๐๐๐๐ซ & ๐ ๐ข๐ซ๐๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ป๐
Itโs hard to not sound like a broken record with this comic, but the comic itself is a broken record so itโs unavoidable. โXavierโ uses his telepathy along with โCerebroโ to make the announcement of his โKrakoanโ drug extortion scheme now that โKrakoaโ is now officially an ethnostate. Everything about this is the exact opposite of anything โXavierโ would have ever stood for. Mutants, of course, have had all-mutant nations before but the circumstances were different though, and the text wasnโt as explicit about it being some type ofย ethnostate. In this announcement, we learn the โKrakoanโ drugs (which once again I have to point out make no sense) cure even more things like ALS. Everything about this announcement is cringy and terrible. Itโs a real โnyah nyah we got the drugsโ type of thing. None of this is new though we saw this announcement before or at least pieces of it. So far we have nothing new except more about the stupid drugs that make no sense and itโs cringy and out of character.ย
ย By the way, I almost forgot this part. Not only are the drugs stupid and make no sense but thereโs no point to the drugs in the story. At the end of the day, โEmmaโ used her telepathy to make sure โKrakoaโ was recognized as a nation so they didnโt need the drugs. So letโs go back through this again. The drugs are stupid and make no sense. Using them to extort people is against anything the X-Men would ever stand for. The drugs serve no purpose in the story and putting them in Marvel Universe makes it way less realistic if weโre still supposed to believe this is the real timeline. Which I donโt.ย
ย In the announcement, thereโs also this whole thing about our new nation of โKrakoaโ claiming the right to other countriesโ citizens just because theyโre mutants. Itโs absolute bullshit! This gets into what I think is one of the biggest problems โX-Menโ comics and thatโs using mutants as a metaphor and then stretching that metaphor way too far. Mutants are a good metaphor for minorities and misfits. From minorites this can be extended to race. When the idea ofย โmutantsโ as race get extended too far though you get this: the โX-menโ forming an ethnostate filled with terrorists and criminals and using drugs along with mind control to ensure their ethnostate is recognized by the world. How far is this removed from the โX-menโ mission statement of โfighting for the peaceful co-existence of humans and mutantsโ?!ย ย
Again I have to repeat myself, in the โMarvelโ universe we understand that mutants would be part of every race, nation, gender, or any other sub-group of people that there are. Itโs fine to say your nation will take in any mutant that wants to live there. That they can have automatic citizenship. You canโt fucking tell other nations that their citizens are under your laws though! Fuck you!ย
ย Not following me? Letโs try a thought experiment. Imagine thereโs this magical island thatโs found by some introverts. This magical island somehow was not within the boundaries of any nation on Earth. There might be more to it than that but just for the sake of argument letโs say no nation has any claim over this island and no one wants to claim it or whatever. Bottom line is, these introverts that found the island can have that Island free and clear. Itโs theirs and letโs say those introverts then come up with some drugs that revolutionized medicine and they use that to extort their way into being to making โIntrovert-topiaโ into a recognized nation by most of the world. Now imagine โIntrovert-topiaโ tells every other country in the world โwe have jurisdiction over your introvert citizensโ. Imagine the kind ofย response this country would get. Imagine how justified they would be to shut the whole thing down especially when the madmen behind this place keep citing something that supposedly extroverts did to introverts when it was actually an introvert who did it. To be clear, and again I have to repeat myself, the โGenoshanโ massacre was caused by โCassandra Novaโ. โCharles Xavierโsโ twin sister. The other thing they keep citing was โM-Dayโ which was done by โScarlet Witchโ who at least at the time was believed to be a mutant. I think maybe they retconned it but whatever. The important thing is, it wasnโt something any human government did or sanctioned or anything. Oh, also operatives of this nation just decided to go in the space and destroy a defense system.
ย Maybe this is too fictional. So letโs say a Muslim country just out of nowhere announces that any onyone the of Islamic faith including any terrorist or Muslim criminal canโt be judged by your courts or governments anymore. Then they destroy your countryโs air-defense system. They even invite all the worldโs worst Muslim terrorists and criminals in their country and even put some of them in the government. One of which is a genocidal Madmanย and another is a guy guilty of crimes against nature (but heโs โsassyโ). War wouldnโt just be justified it would be an obligation to the worldโs security.
ย Speaking of which, do you remember that list of people that would be on this โKroakoanโ council that runs the government? Well now, we see the whole list except for the โRed Kingโ but we already know itโs going to be โKitty Prydeโ. If you know anything about the history of her, youโd immediately see how that is incomprehensibly stupid. Otherwise, the list has nothing all that surprising on it except I feel like it’s kind of shitty โCyclopsโ didnโt get a spot. Heโs a โcaptain commanderโ which is something they describe for whoโs in charge during war or something but still… Another one of these โcaptains commandersโ is โGorgonโ who I think is a โWolverineโ villain. Tf?! Also, Apocalypse has a seat which is ridiculous, but so is Apocalypse even being allowed anywhere near the island so fuck it.ย
ย The first thing this Council comes up with three basic laws which are:
- ย Mutants canโt kill humans indiscriminately (which in this comic Iโm actuallyย kind of surprised by, but I guess there’re vestiges of real โX-Menโ in here somewhere)ย
- ย Something boring about property that no one cares about. I think it just follows basic human laws or something like that.ย
- Then thereโs an extremely cringey part between โNightcrawlerโ and โMystiqueโ that leads to โmake more mutantsโ. Which isnโt a fucking law.ย
ย Then the council decides how to punish a โSabertoothโ for killing people. The obvious answer is they should just imprison him. Then again, โSabertoothโ is more of a dick than pretty much anybody so I can understand just killing him. They come up with bullshit reasoning for not killing him that makes no sense and is stupid. So instead they do the most inhumane thing that could possibly think of which is permanent solitary confinement in a dark hole that โKrakoaโ just kind ofย drags him into. So heโs going to escape eventually, and this is morally reprehensible in any way you could think of. Seriously, if youโre going to do this, then just let the humans put him in jail or kill him.ย
ย Then after all this, thereโs not much more than a bunch of fireworks and small character moments. โJeanโ and โEmmaโ share a beer. It looks like โWolverineโ, โJeanโ and โCyclopsโ set up a threesome (Iโm joking here just to be clear). And thatโs pretty much it. If this is supposed to be a separate series, thatโs supposed to stand by itself almost nothing happens and this is a really anticlimactic ending. Stupid.
ย I canโt wait for all the fun technobabble weโll have the big finale of โPowers Of Xโ. Even if somehowย someway the big finale of โPowers Of Xโ is greatest thing ever the journey to get there was terrible, stupid, and against anything an โX-Menโ comics should ever be about… And the sad part is.. The part that really really hits you inย the stones… The relaunch looks even worse. Fuck! C-.
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