X-Men: The Onslaught Revelation - "Altar/Piece Alter/Peace"

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Nightcrawler senses something is rotten in the hearts and souls of mutantkind. But as he works to identify exactly what’s wrong, he realizes this isn’t a problem that can be solved with prayers and belief. It’s bigger than any one person’s specific faith. The solution has to be something that every single mutant can buy-into, mentally and emotionally. In other words, a Big Idea that sidesteps extant religions. Something that allows people like Kurt (or indeed any of our other characters with their own, different beliefs) to remain faithful to their particular creeds.

The Way is not an “instead of,” in religious terms. It’s an “as well as.” I’m actually pretty pleased with the Big Idea I landed on. I’m not going to say anything about it here, but it’s something we’ll come to as a natural product of the story in the first arc. It’s been there since my first pitch. It works. And it’s so beautifully crafted to apply only to mutants in the HoXPoX era.

-- Si Spurrier

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Catwoman: Lonely City #1

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( Old Lady Catwoman )

The Walking Dead Deluxe #24

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The United States of Captain America #5

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Tales from Harrow County: Fair Folk #3

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Phoenix Song: Echo #1

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Guardians of the Galaxy #18 (2021) - "Then it's us."

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And I say “galaxy,” singular, because galaxies are absolutely fucking massive! And the space between them is even bigger. And when you actually sit down and figure out, okay, the Skrulls are impinging on the Kree’s boundaries…that’s a great politics plotline, but that’s like saying I have an issue over a garden fence with a guy in Azerbaijan. [...] I said, “well, they’re the Guardians of the Galaxy. There’s one galaxy.” I don’t care what anybody said before, I don’t care what anybody says after: for the purposes of this book, there’s one galaxy, and if people complain, we’ll shrug and say, “well, there’s always been one galaxy. You must have imagined all those other stories.” But, yeah, no: it’s cheating. I feel like at this point, I’m allowed to completely ignore continuity. I have paid homage to it enough. I am allowed to completely ignore it to make my life easier. -- Al Ewing

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