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Okay, I just picked up the second issue, and while I didn't get the same punch from it that I did from #1, I still like what I'm seeing here.
What I really dig most is the "Revolution Not Evolution" idea. We have not seen any proof that Asher is a mutant. All we have is Hoffman's claim to that effect, and Hoffman is pursuing an agenda the details of which we the readers have not been fully clued into yet.
I'm thinking, and this is pure speculation, mind you, that this title is going to re-examine what being a mutant in the Marvel Universe is all about. Is it a matter of having an "X-gene," whatever the hell that is? Or is it a matter of realizing that you are a freak, that you are unique, that there may be billions of normal people on the planet but you are not one of them?
Haven't we all felt, especially in the magical years or puberty, that we could explode?
Hoffman, Orwell, Fagin, et al really remind me of King Mob, Elfayed, Mad Tom, and the whole Invisibles gang. I'm not saying (yet) that Grant Morrison is X, but the recruitment of Asher seems to be a Marvelization of Dane's recruitment in The Invisibles. Convince an intelligent kid who's unhappy with the status quo that he's part of a very special group, a group about which the kid has heard many strange, wondrous, and even horrible things, and who knows? You may be able to mold a messiah, a revolutionary, or even a superhero.
What do y'all think? Is it possible to make a mutant using nothing but imagination and a well-told story? |
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