Summary
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Marvel has just relaunched X-Men #1 introduces the team’s new base, a former Orchis hideout and sentinel factory in Alaska.
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The new home for Marvel’s premiere mutant superteam reflects the X-Men’s desperate need for a place to belong after the fall of Krakoa.
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The X-Men’s appropriation of their enemies’ former base, where they manufactured weapons of war to try and destroy mutantkind, symbolizes the team’s ultimate resilience and adaptation in the face of great adversity.
Warning: Spoilers for X-Men #1!The newest HQ for the X-Men is undoubtedly their most disturbing yet – as Cyclops’ new mutant squad moves into the base of their recently defeated foes. More disturbing, rather than just a former Orchis hideout, the new home is A factory deep in the trenches of Alaska that was dedicated to the production of mutant hunting sentinels.
X-Men #1 – written by Jed MacKay, with art by Ryan Stegman – officially introduces the team’s new home base, which they took over after the definitive defeat of Orchis, the anti-mutant hate group that plagued Marvel’s mutants throughout the Krakoan era .
The X-Men demand highs and lows claiming the Orchis base of ​​operations for themselves, but above all else, it shows just how desperate the team has become for a place to belong since the fall of Krakoa.
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The X-Men’s new home is a harsh reminder of what they’ve lost
X-Men #1 – Written by Jed MacKay, Ryan Stegman, JP Mayer, & Marte Gracia
At night, the X-Men lay their heads against the place where the rivals plot their destruction and build weapons to defeat them.
A perennial threat during the Krakoan era, the end of the epic last five years of X-Men Stories witnessed Orchis Orchestra Mutantkind’s near extinction. The Krakoan invasion of Orchis is truly hell for the X-Men, but after the conclusion of the Fall of the house X arc, the X-Men miraculously overcame them. Orchis was destroyed, but the era of Krakoa was over. The X-Men needed a new home, and it was A vacancy in Orchis’ factory in Merle, Alaska where the mutantphobes built their sentinels and weapons to fight the X-Men with.
The X-Men’s new home base is certainly a reflection of their new reality, as they try to pick up the pieces after the fall of Krakoa. There is a bittersweet reality in this, when they went from having the perfect heavenly saint to living in the hardened world of their enemies, moving into the house of their former oppressors.. At night, the X-Men lay their heads against the place where the rivals plot their destruction and build weapons to defeat them. It shows just how low on resources they are and how desperate they have become.
Not only is Orchis no longer around, their house is now a home for mutants, something her founders would surely hate.
“From the Ashes” of World War II Orchis
On the flip side, there’s something strangely inspiring about seeing the X-Men have everything taken from them – only to take everything from Orchis in return. Not only is Orchis no longer around, their house is now a home for mutants, something her founders would surely hate. Cyclops ‘X-Men’ appropriate who used to belong to their oppressors. To loosely quote Audre Lorde, the master’s tools can never dismantle the master’s house, but they do allowed the X-Men To temporarily beat Orchis at their own game, and take their enemies’ house for themselves in the process.