Nov. 10th, 2022

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To speak to the general stuff that’s going on here, I think we’re all reacting to the sheer fertility of the Krakoan experiment. Jon’s genius was to simultaneously reduce mutants and mutantkind to units of utility — uniquely tooled cogs in a beautiful hard-sci-fi machine — and to let them express their characters and hearts as explorative beings within that new context, all at once. The first part of that paradigm throws up some incredible ideas to do with mutant powers behaving as technologies (I think of Kieron’s recontextualization of Moira’s abilities, Gerry’s plans with Darwin, Leah and the Waiting Room, Victor and the Hole…) while the latter part cracks open endless possibilities to do with characters exploring new social dynamics — Vita’s work in particular stands out there — or creating incredible new cultures from tabula rasa, where Al, Tini, and Steve have all made big, beautiful swings. -- Si Spurrier

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