Marvel’s new X-Men comic brings the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants back to life

In the last years, the world of the X-Men was a site of tremendous upheaval. Marvel’s Merry Mutants have gone from superheroes who teach at a school sometimes to stewards and ambassadors of their own sovereign living nation. At a time when explaining what’s going on with the X-Men right now involves high-concept stuff like the singularity, terraforming, and a woman who gets to reset the timeline and do it all over when she dies, it’s nice to take time to appreciate the simple things.

Storm reverting to her mohawk, getting a new costume and forming the Brotherhood of Mutants into the X-Men of Mars. That? It is the law.

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As regent of all of Mars and high leader of a fractious council of isolationist mutants who’ve been away from earth for several millennia, Storm has been reassessing her personal identity, a very classic mood for the character who’s been a street urchin, a goddess, a teacher, a superhero, and a winner of underground knife fights. Meanwhile, Sunspot and Magneto, founder of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants in the first place, are pretty sure they’ve found a traitorous mole on Mars.

Storm’s solution? Mars’ fractured alliances need more than the X-Men. They need a Brotherhood — and thanks to a new Russell Dauterman costume, she’s gonna look rad doing it.

Artemis tells Hippolyta that she will be keeping her horse, and that she should ask the goddess for what she wants with her whole entire heart. “I want to find the Amazons,” Hippolyta answers. “Wait. With my whole heart...” she says, as a sparrow lands on her shoulder and gives her a feather, “I want to be an Amazon.” in Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons #2 (2022).

Three distinct types of discrete are available OomphThese moments are in Wonder Woman: The Amazons #2 I could have highlighted today, but I’ve settled on the utter longing writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and artist Gene Ha (not to mention letterer Clayton Cowles, with that slight change in font size) pour into this momentous exchange. A single panel of an aria. I am so happy it makes my stomach churn.

“I think we’re probably in the clear,” says the Winter Soldier. “Sooo... did anyone else get to eat the fancy food?” asks another member of the team. “No,” the rest say simultaneously, some of them drooling in Black Widow #15 (2022).

The button was great! Black WidowFor its last issue, put on a solid performance. After evacuating a fancy rich people gala due to supervillain threat, our heroes realize that the threat is over, the rich people are gone, and nobody’s touched the buffet. A comic that ends with a bunch of superhero friends in a wrecked ballroom noshing on high-end eats and shooting the shit is a comic that ends well.

“Wilson Fisk was just arrested. Daredevil got him,” says Jessica Jones. She turns to Luke Cage where they are standing in rubble with the Avengers, “Looks like you’re running unopposed, Mr. Mayor,” in Devil’s Reign #6 (2022).

Devil’s Reign, the Daredevil crossover, has come to a conclusion, and I guess some stuff happened with Fisk and Matt Murdock and Matt’s twin brother and Elektra — but I know what everyone’s really here for is Luke Cage becoming mayor of New York City. I can’t waitTo hear his thoughts on MTA funding and Open Streets, bicycle safety, congestion pricing, and restaurant sheds.

She-Hulk happily greets a huge and freindly grey figure in businesswear whose head is a large, featureless rectangular box in She-Hulk #3 (2022).

I’m a simple woman. Awesome Andy, formerly Frankensteinian creation by Fantastic Four villain, the Mad Thinker), was put in the She-Hulk Comic to serve as her law clerk. I love the She-Hulk Comic.

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