Mutantkind’s revitalization at Marvel Comics within the Dawn, Reign, and now Destiny of X—one thing that has given mutants a secluded house and standing as a worldwide superpower on the sovereign, residing island of Krakoa—has raised all kinds of fascinating questions about what it means for the writer’s oft-persecuted minority group to have discovered a semblance of utopia, and the costs they’ll be keen to pay to safeguard it.

Marvel Comics has shared new particulars about Legion of X, one of many remaining unrevealed X-books within the third period of the “Krakoan Age”—the line-wide X-Men reboot that started with the launch of House and Powers of X in 2019. Joining the latest announcement of the eight different books that may launch Destiny of X this spring, Legion is written by Way of X’s Si Spurrier, and can function artwork from Jan Bazaldua (with no colorist or letter presently formally connected to the sequence). The sequence will star a staff headlined by Way’s Nightcrawler, who has spent a few of his time on Krakoa pondering the idea of Mutant spirituality in an period wherein they can’t die, as he leads a staff of… effectively, not precisely police. Mutants and cops don’t actually combine. Instead, Nightcrawler’s new staff—Pixie, the Juggernaut, Blindfold, Dr. Nemesis, and even David Haller, a.ok.a. Legion—will function each the mutant nation’s inside investigative drive and the protectors of its peace, not simply in a regulation and order sense, however to safeguard utopia from forces that may disrupt it.

“For the first time, the Marvel Universe has this densely packed, beautiful (and beautifully volatile) population of superhumans, out in the open, all in one place,” Spurrier mentioned in an announcement launched by Marvel (through The Beat). “It needs peacekeepers, sure… but it’s a mistake to think of them as simply cops. You don’t get far in Krakoa if the limit of your imagination is beating people up or reaching for a gun. Mutant civilization needs those who think differently.”

Just how otherwise this unorthodox staff thinks stays to be seen, however Legion might be removed from the primary time the brand new X-Men’s age has had questionable ethics raised by a few of its most distinguished heroes. After all, X-Force returned as one of many first books of the Krakoan age, re-establishing the black ops staff as primarily mutantkind’s secret intelligence company in addition. In organizations just like the Hellfire Trading Company and Kitty Pride’s Marauders, you’ve mutant teams turning to the shadows of the black market to assist keep the financial offers Krakoa has made with humankind in change for recognition of its sovereignty. Krakoa is one thing extra for mutantkind at this level, however whether it is to be a nation on the worldwide stage, then it’s naturally going to undertake some buildings and organizations akin to its fellow nation-states, for good or sick. But with a mutant like Nightcrawler on the helm, then maybe as Spurrier suggests, Legion of X will present us the way in which to an altogether totally different method to some sort of X-Men peacekeeper drive.

Legion of X begins this April, alongside the remainder of the Destiny of X line.

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