#hixmen

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I saw on your twitter they’re voting for x men characters? What’s that about?

Hi anon! It's a thing they're doing to mirror Krakoa's new democratic process; once a year they elect an x-men team, and one member of the team can be elected from the readers choice out of 10. Last year was Polaris; this year is shaping up to be Firestar or Armour or MAYBE Monet if she pulls through. I think the url is marvel.com/xmenvote but I'm on mobile rn so can't verify 😅

I don't imagine it will be a complete reshuffle of the team ; some characters haven't been around long enough to have their storylines played out (Synch) so there's a lot of reelections I imagine but yeah, basically we get to vote in an X-Man! The losers will show up in Secret X-Men, another title that comes out later this year.

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Goddamn it no

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Hey random question but like if you had the chance would you scrap krakoa as an idea as a whole or try to make it work?

Hi anon! Despite how many "anti" posts I make about Krakoa I do in fact like it a lot; character's do feel very OOC, but it's something new and inspired and definitely feels like the most unique thing X-Men comics have had in about... oh, a decade or so? Like, I do get tired with all the "oh no, someone mass genocided us >:(" plotlines there are, or timeline fuckery, etc etc. Krakoa is a break from that and puts a new spin on things and allows us to see old characters brought back from Limbo, or reimagined into something completely knew. From a storyline perspective Krakoa is the best thing mutants have had in ages!

But, still, Krakoa does feel very like? textually... not good?? Like they literally murder children so they can "prove" themselves worthy of the mutation that was unjustly taken from them (even though that was SUPPOSED to be restored in AxV and again in Uncanny Avengers but I digress), they allowed a literal n*zi eugenicist and another fascist eugenicist to be on their government, and allowed the n*zi to make his own team, there's those n*zi incest twins that are just... allowed to fuck around, there's multiple r*pists & p*dophiles like Mastermind who are allowed because under Krakoa all previous laws have been forgiven, they banned pregonatives because they would ask too many questions, Exodus is reciting cult speak to a bunch of kids, and I mean, Hank McCoy literally commited genocide on Terra Verde.

Krakoa is interesting but it also very obviously is not a force for good in all this. Which, I have nothing against! I find the story Hickman is building very interesting and I look forward to see where it goes next. I just find it odd how people act as though this is supposed to be "empowering" or whatever. Like, they literally went to a "barren, dead, uninhabited" etc etc etc world and changed it so people can live there, and idk about you but I am of the opinion that just because nobody is living somewhere, that does not automatically make it free real estate, you know?

Anyway. Personally if I had a say, I would want all the data pages from HoxPox & in the more recent comics to link up more, and I would want to see more of those future mutants, and definitely more of the upcoming X-Men vs A.I. stuff we saw in HoxPox and again in X-Men #20. I am biased in this though, because I am hopeful this may end up including some of the Avengers A.I. crew, and maybe we'll get something from Hank Pym, who as we know has a lot to do with A.I., especially since he got merged with his. But, generally, I'm having fun with Krakoa thus far, it's just the unexplained changes in characters & fandom reaction that I get annoyed by lol

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me every time x spoilers come out for the past three weeks

[id: the "so no head?" vine meme edited to say "so, no darwin?"]

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oh i see the team now. like. good for laura n lorna n synch! but um 👉👈 where... where did darwin go off too. why are everett n laura there but not armando 🥺 where is he...

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So does this mean they're going to finally acknowledge the plot thread that Kitty might have been replaced at birth with a Neo and isn't a mutant? If so, how was it never caught before? Unless it was and Neo Kitty is another contingency of Moira

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I'm seeing a lot of praise for Hickman's run on the X-Men with his two titles House of X and Powers of X and it's not entirely undeserved but man does reading it make me wish there was actually someone marginalized writing for the X-Men.

Like, this is a grand story but that doesn't change the fact that it's, at its base, still a storyline of how much it sucks to be a mutant because society at large wants you all dead and anyone you'd expect to care enough to help do not lift a finger to do so.

This is worse, to me, because it includes the characterization where mutants really emphasize how not-human they are. I get how the blatant dehumanization of mutantkind would inspire separatist sentiments but I really don't like seeing characters internalize that instead of vehemently claiming their humanity. They're not gods waiting out their eventual inheritance of the Earth. They're still people, people who may be able to move things with their mind or fire energy out of their eyes, but people nonetheless who can like watching popular television and reading books. They shouldn't sneer at pop culture and their birth names as base human things and act like they're above it, because ultimately they're not.

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the thing abt hickman is that i feel like his writing is best when it's like. already finished. like i'm sure in 5 years time when krakoa wraps up i'll look back and think wow what an amazing arc but sitting thru it sucks.