X-Men '92 House of XCII 1 Marvel Comics Krakoa 2022 Review

[@TuggernautCollectables]

The sale gods are leading Chris to "make Krakoa great again" 😅

[@ChrisMacPresents]

@TuggernautCollectables as long as it takes place in this self-contained universe, sure lol but not main Canon lol

[@SamGuthrie1977]

Yeah but my problem with the idea of Krakoa is that it intrinsically and canonically makes no sense to begin with. Humans were never the biggest threat to mutants - other mutants were. That's the point of the X-Men that Stan injected into the book with issue #1 back in 1963, when he established that Magneto and the Brotherhood's actions were a threat to the safety of both humans and mutants alike. Their behavior also inflamed human prejudice towards mutants which Xavier was trying to reduce. I knew Hickman inherently didn't understand the X-Men in HoX/PoX #1, when he erroneously cited the Genosha slaughter and M-Day as two reasons mutants needed segregate away from humans. Genosha was done by Cassandra Nova, a Shi-ar Mummudrai; and M-Day was done by Scarlett Witch, another mutant. Neither were human. What about the other mutant genocides in canon that Hickman did not mention? The Morlock Massacre? Orchestrated by Mister Sinister and carried out by Gambit, Sabretooth, and the Marauders -- a mutate eugenicist and a bunch of mutant mercenaries. Not humans. Fall of the Mutants? That was Apocalypse, another mass murdering mutant eugenicist. The Dark Phoenix Saga? That was orchestrated by Shaw and the Inner Circle of the Hellfire club. Rich, powerful, elite mutant billionaires. Age of Apocalypse? Legion's fault. Another mutant. Why would the X-Men choose to live on an island with other mutant villains who are responsible for more mutant death and destruction than any human villain? It doesn't make sense. Having your own nation for your own people, doesn't mean squat if you've invited the biggest threats to live alongside you. But I get it. It's 2024 and Marvel has a bunch of low quality writers who have never actually read X-Men history before, so they awkwardly shoehorn a dumb social justice "mutants vs humans" theme onto the book when that's never what it was truly about. "My mistake was not working towards peace between mutants first." There's no mistake. That's what Xavier's been doing since issue #1 -- trying to stop the bad mutants from doing bad things. He was doing it right from the beginning. There is no making peace with some of these mutant villains. The only way this Krakoa thing works is if we ignore all X-Men canon and they start writing our former mutant heroes completely out-of-character so they seem okay rubbing elbows with villains.

[@ChrisMacPresents]

@SamGuthrie1977 that's what I liked about this book. All the shoe horned stuff is not present. Plus, characters actually act like they're supposed to. The only 2 big changes are that they live on an island and can be resurrected. I can see this as an elseworld book, but as Canon, no thank you