X-Men 2021 project continues!

Previously:
House of X/Powers of X ⭐⭐⭐
X-Men, Vol. 1 ⭐⭐
Marauders, Vol. 1 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Excalibur, Vol. 1 ⭐⭐⭐

Honestly, Chip Zdarsky did good. This miniseries takes us on the journey of the tried and true Everyone Fights Because Nobody Wants to Sit Down and Actually TALK fights, and it's even more heightened because the reason the fighting starts makes complete and total sense on Sue Storm's part. Charles Xavier and Magneto just show up and say, "Hi Sue, we're taking your teenage son to Krakoa now" and she's just expected to say okay? I'd be fucking enraged too.

Add onto that the fact that Franklin's powers are fading away and Reed does what Reed's big dumb smart head always does and unwittingly pushes his son away, and you have some nice family drama to add to the mix.

Things happen, the F4 spy on the Krakoan council, Kitty and Franklin and Val end up with Doom who claims to be able to help Franklin, and more fighting ensues! Doom's a bad guy and tricks them all, F4 and Mutants alike!

I do love Doom in this, if only for this poke at Xavier:


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Which pretty much puts all of the Dawn of X era into perspective and why it feels so weird to have Xavier doing all of this.

In fact, this whole BOOK is about the hubris of all these great powerful men and how their hubris gets not only in their own way, but in the way of those they claim to be doing their best to protect.

Then there's the end, where Xavier and Magneto put Reed in his place in a way that feels really disgusting and I hope comes back in some big way down the road.

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Granted, Reed essentially found a way to ghost the mutant gene and make mutants not read as mutants which is awful. But the way Xavier and Magneto lorded over Reed the fact that Xavier took away Reed's ability to ever remember how he did it in the first place...hubris, baby. It must come back to bite them all in the ass.

That could be the seed being planted for some great plot in the future, and if it does, I'll be here for it.