X-Men 2021 project continues!

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

Ahoy Muties, THIS IS WHERE IT'S AT! Gerry Duggan does not disappoint, and has in fact raised my hopes again for mutant books. What we get here in Marauders is what I found sorely lacking in the Hickman written books: character work, relationship work, and interesting storylines that both worked as a story and as a way to develop characters.

There's fun and sass, there's introspection, there's plot, there's CAPTAIN KATE PRYDE and Lockheed! All good fun.

I appreciate that this book is having characters be completely wary of the fact that Krakoa is open to all mutants, and that someone like Lucas Bishop is 100% correct in saying hell no to being part of anything Hellfire Club. Of course, he comes around to becoming Kitty's Red Bishop, but mostly because he can spy on them.

I also love that this book didn't forget that Sebastian Shaw is, you know, SEBASTIAN FUCKIN SHAW. The tension and power plays between him and Emma Frost! The games within games! We love to see it.

The end of the volume is a great cliffhanger that I'm anxiously waiting to see resolved in Volume 2...but first, I need to get through the first volumes of everything else so far.