Inferno #1

[laughing_tree]

I think one of the interesting things about taking all the mutants and making a culture out of it is that a lot of the pre-culture roles that were defined by external forces have to be revisited when the whole thing gets rejected, or replaced, by new ones. Some people who the world called monsters would reveal themselves not to be, and some who were angels would turn out to eventually do the devil's bidding. -- Jonathan Hickman

Comments

[silverhammerman]

I'd love to see you expand on that a bit, if you'd like, since I've been thinking about it a lot recently.

Personally I find my own annoyance coming from the fact that, as far as I'm concerned, this "new" Krakoan culture seems to entail replicating a lot of old systems of power, rather than developing anything passing new, and that for all the big game Hickman talks from his position as superhero comics' resident "Heady Scifi Writer" his actual engagement with any of these ideas seems pretty superficial.

[numeronone]

One example being that, as stated in the qupte, they're still operating on a binary moralistic system of "angels and devils", where you're either one or the other. Which isn't exactly new.

One could - tenuously - first thing in the morning with no research done before typing this - argue that settler/paradise stories such as this Krakoa business are an American writer's half-hearted attempt to address the evils of real-world colonialism.

Not unlike Post-Apocalyptic narratives or indeed Westerns, there is a heady thrill to the idea of the blank slate, one that is far mpre attractive than considering what one may lose to achieve it.