Way of X #2: "Let Us Prey"

[alliterator]

Something has slithered into a gap in the mutant community. This evil thing has identified that if you are part of a society that has no limits then you also have no direction. Look, there's a whole heap of anthropological and sociological stuff that I could bore you with here, to hint at the big picture and foreshadow some of the fears and doubts Nightcrawler is sensing on the horizon, but this is comics! So, luckily for us, all this high-falutin’ stuff takes a very familiar, and utterly terrifying, form. It’s an individual who is lurking in the shadows, exacerbating the risks that arise when you have a society without any rudder or anchor. Especially when that society is made up of people with superpowers. It’s the sociological equivalent of a nuke, and this thing, this threat, has its finger on the button.
-- Simon Spurrier

Comments

[lordultimus]

I'm... actually okay with this? Onslaught always had potential (being a dark mirror to both Magneto and Charles, and the fact that he's basically their son), but always had a bunch of 90's-ness limiting him. A book like this can actually explore him in a way other that "throw a lot of shit at him".

[tinygaylaura]

I'll be interested to see how he's used here. He's certainly more menacing here as a lurking threat than as just a big guy who blasts and smashes things