#deadly genesis

[rei-ismyname]

Emma Frost tries to rob Chuck

For real, mutants are always trying to rob this guy. I wonder why. Because he's rich, obviously, but I wonder if there's more to it.

I can't take these Regency Hellfire clowns seriously. Even Alistair Crowley would be embarrassed.

It's very early days at the Hellfire Club for Emma, long before she joined management. She's working as a dancer. Chuckles and Moira, dressed hilariously as Hellfire regulars, approach her for a private dance.

'Give me all your money, old man.' Chuck scolds her like a jerkoff and it doesn't work, sadly. However, Emma avoids almost certainly dying on Krakoa, so good for her.

Vulcan brings fire to the party and and Emma is just like fuck this shit, stay away from me. Chuck wipes everyone's minds, which Moira and Vulcan both react differently to. This man really sucks at recruiting, no wonder he sticks to the young and naive. It's sad to see what Vulcan was like before even more space trauma and mindfuckery pushed him over the edge.

[vertigoartgore]

1975's Giant-Size X-Men Vol.1 #1 (turning 50 today, feel old yet ?) cover by artists Gil Kane, Dave Cockrum and letterer Danny Crespi.

[mutant-powered-larva]

SEAN WHAT THE FUCK

[zeddfrost]

#WhiteQueenWed

We take an interlude into a backup story from X-Men Deadly Genesis # 5 by Ed Brubaker and Pete Woods.

I just love how HoXPoX re-contextualizes this. They were always going to try to get Emma on board for the Krakoa plan from the very beginning.

[summerstrash]

one thing I'm mad about vis a vis the krakoan era is the fact that it only remains implicit that moira's deadly genesis team were, in hindsight, a sort of proto-Five focused around the creation of a mutant state prior to having Krakoa itself on the board.

Like,

proteus was always going to be in her back pocket, trapped as he was. he's the only one to make it to the actual Five, in part because he was never a part of the initial team-building with the others. he's a reality warper and energy vampire, and if I'm not mistaken, omega-level as well.

petra is a geomorph who can generate diamonds with her powers; prior to the entry of krakoa and its flowers into the plan, she could've been absolutely pivotal to the physical and economic stability of a mutant state.

sway is a time manipulator who can replay things she has witnessed. she would be in the role of eva bell, if resurrection was on the table, and/or she could serve as an "objective" observer in a justice or surveillance system.

darwin is evolution itself; his powers appear to have no upper bound, though he is not "officially" classified as an omega-level mutant. I believe he would be a primarily political agent, as a symbol of the nation, given that he is a visible mutant who cannot be killed, but I also believe that his survival powers could perhaps be pushed, maybe with proteus or gabriel in a circuit with him, to create life.

vulcan is an omega level energy blaster with a deep wellspring of rage directed at the shi'ar empire, AND he's the lost summers brother. aware as Moira would likely have been of this, she would have seen the purpose of that blood tie between her team and charles' — the X-Men would have been less likely to cross her team if it holds a member of the summers family.

I also believe that Moira was planning from the beginning to hedge her bets — and this team is perfect for that, too, given that four of them would always be primarily loyal to her, the mother figure who pulled them from the gutters of grief, oppression, poverty, and self-loathing and gave them a new family.

a circuit between these five mutants might be just as potent at terraforming as the Twelve were — Gabriel providing the raw energetic reactions you'd find at the dawn of spacetime, the star at the center of the circuit, Petra giving it physical form and stability and blessing it with untold physical wealth and elemental resources, Suzanne giving it the time it needs to grow, and Proteus and/or Darwin giving it life.

imagine the devotion a populace might give the beings that created their home out of nothing. Imagine, in turn, the loyalty they'd pay to their dear mother.

and Moira, even, familiar as she is with the narrative of the history of mutantkind, would likely have been planning for that, too — by withholding her son from the others at first, she creates a divide that will make it psychologically easier for the rest of the team to sacrifice him for the cause, if he cannot be brought to heel, or if he threatens her all-important life. the tragedy of mutant x is a narrative you can build sainthood or demonization around, and countries and communities need their foundational myths, don't they?

I think it's a devilishly elegant plan, on her part, to find mutants who need her, mutants who can't clean up as well for the cameras or the judgment of a bigoted america as charles' beautiful lily-white teenagers do, and turn them into her own personal nation-building engine.

I also wonder deeply about the Destiny of it all — is sway on the team because, as a time-manipulator, she could move directly against the prophecies of Irene Adler in a way the others can't?

At what point does Moira choose to fully betray the cause? Is it maybe at the moment that her carefully-laid plans and carefully-chosen teenagers are torn out from under her? Did she, in her way, truly love them, like Charles, for all his foibles, loved his original five X-Men?

I don't think I'll ever know for sure, and it deeply rankles at me that it's so.

[karenxmenfan]

Armando Muñoz, Darwin (31/x)

[xmencovered]

X-Men: Deadly Genesis Vol 1 #1 / Published: November 2005 / Artiost: Marc Silvestri

[newx-menfan]

Finally got a name for the new X-23 villain….Haymaker, Jordan Gastin!

Truthfully I would have rather had the Hooded Woman return… I am kind of tired of Kimura drama at this point and I have a feeling this character will probably be similar to “X24” from the Logan film or the male clones featured in “Orphan Black”…

I do wonder if *they has some sort of connection to Julian… since the suit LOOKS like Hellion’s color scheme and the Facility already made “Predator X” from Cessily…so why not make a clone of Julian? Also…the idea of Julian essentially getting a “Madelyn Pryor” is just too HYSTERICAL to pass up for me 😂🤣🤣🤣

I would actually LOVE it if Haymaker is connected to Kimura’s backstory- the bit about Kimura’s grandmother was always interesting in NXM and I always wished KYOST had tried to flesh her out more as a character… (I always thought it would have been interesting if Kimura worked as a handler for the facility because she had been protecting her grandmother…)…but I don’t know if Schultz will dig too much into Kimura’s origin story…

Overall I am kind of “meh” on the first look at the new villain…but maybe Schultz will change my mind!

New 'X-23: Deadly Regenesis' details reveal villain Haymaker • AIPT

Meet HAYMAKER, debuting in the pages of Erica Schultz and Edgar Salazar’s 'X-23: DEADLY REGENESIS,' on sale March 8.

Edit- *it appears Jordan is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, my mistake!