#X-men Stasis

[totally-not-an-awkward-okapi]

From the womb the law was laid to go, but to be certain things,

There is nothing to perpetuate under the sun from the latter path that was gradually born under him

Death is an insidious figure seeking to ensnare us.

[alphacomicsvol2]

X of Swords - Stasis Cover Art by Pepe Larraz

[comicwaren]

From X-Men: Forever #001, “A Ghost”

Art by Luca Maresca and Federico Blee

Written by Kieron Gillen

[rei-ismyname]

Mr Sinister should be experiencing profound existential despair

*Yes, I'm aware that he's not really capable of those kinds of feelings, but even from a character perspective the guy has lost his reason for existing. Huge spoilers for the entire Krakoan age, plus Heir of Apocalypse #1-3. We're talking about this guy.

One of the revelations of Krakoa was that Mr Sinister is not Nathaniel Essex, the 19th century Victorian eugenicist and scientist (now space god trapped experiencing the moment of death for eternity.) He's a clone *created* by Essex to achieve Domionhood (the highest form of non-linear gestalt machine entity - traditionally formed by joining singularities of machine intelligence together with so much processing power they are functionally Gods) through the study and utilisation of mutant power.

Here he is in 1924, threatening Destiny after killing Sinister.

He thought he was seeking Dominion for himself, not knowing he was a clone or that when he achieved Dominion his progress would be harvested by Essex. Essex created 3 other clones/variations for the same purpose but through different means -

Dr Stasis through post/humanity and Orbis Stellaris through the 'cosmic powers' (dude took over the Progenitor 's Worldfarm - a staggeringly impressive achievement for a 19th century clone from Earth)

These two dickwads

Finally, Mother Righteous through Magic (physically a clone of Essex's dead wife Rebecca, but just as much of a callous existential colonialist and monster as any Essex spawn.)

There she is, having a tanty after Enigma stole her Dominion success.

Each was created without knowledge of the other, and had mental blocks in place to prevent them learning about it. They ALL succeeded in various timelines and their efforts were harvested by the real Nathaniel Essex - Enigma, leaving the clones with nothing. Less than nothing. Alive but very dejected.

Making a huge unforced error

Instead of enjoying his godhood he chose to fight the X-Men and thanks to Jeanix, Xavier and Moira he's now a smear across infinity - defeated and broken but trapped at the moment of death forever.

Get Phoenix'd idiot!

Mr Sinister knows all of this, he even participated in the fight. Dr Stasis and Mother Righteous are dead, though Orbis Stellaris is still out there. His brain was only able to comprehend this stuff properly very recently. Even when working against Enigma there were still blocks in place.

Any one of these truth bombs would mess his head up, but all of them at once should ruin him. He doesn't have a sense of ethics but he does need purpose. Consider how bummed he was when the Progenitor ignored him on Judgement Day. He's not a real boy like other clones are.

- He's a clone with all sorts of fake memories

- Created with the compulsion to fulfill someone else's endgame

- Everything he's done for the last 200 years has been in service of Enigma's plan. Even the stuff that makes no sense. Especially the stuff that makes no sense.

- He has no other reason for being.

- Enigma smote him at least once.

- Enigma is dead, like super dead.

- Everyone else knows this as well

What the hell does he do now?

*Sigh*, he'll probably just be treated as Nathaniel Essex again, given Brevoort 's transparent policy of overwriting Krakoan lore. He could just clone himself with a new purpose/hard reboot as we've seen him do in Immortal X-Men, but how would he even decide? Also, he's the mutant devil - anyone who knows about him should want him dead, including some very powerful people. Two of the things I found insulting about Heir of Apocalypse was Exodus being next to Sinister and not eviscerating him AND Mr Sinister just acting like his old self as if nothing had changed. At the very least it should be explained - it's really not that hard either.

Mr Sinister is a system not a person, so he can make whatever changes he wants. It's not a very compelling villain if we don't know his motives though, and he's been there before.

Once that door is opened you can't ignore it. It'd be a shame to throw away the development he received, while ignoring potential for interesting new stories.

[crisisofinfinitemultiverses]

X-Men: Before The Fall – Sinister Four 1 (2023) by Kieron Gillen & Paco Medina

Cover: Lucas Werneck

[evilhorse]

Go @#$% yourself!

(X-Men #25)

[heckcareoxytwit]

A preview of Fall of the House of X #5

FALL OF THE HOUSE OF X #5

THE BATTLE FOR THE FUTURE!

It all comes down to this – Orchis versus the X-Men, winner take the future! Orchis has pushed mutantkind to their lowest point ever, but that just means the X-Men have had to fight back like never before. Will it be enough? We continue to barrel toward the conclusion of the Krakoan Age as the two stories that are one come to an end!

Written by: Gerry Duggan Art by: Lucas Werneck Cover by: Pepe Larraz Page Count: 28 Pages Release Date: May 22, 2024

[gotham-at-nightfall]

Orchis deals Krakoa a crippling blow!

X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023 #1

[big-gay-apocalypse]

// X-Men (2021) #25

[why-i-love-comics]

X-Men #25 - "From the Shadows" (2023)

written by Gerry Duggan art by Stefano Caselli & Marte Gracia

[superheroes-or-whatever]

Uncanny Avengers (2023) #1 art by Javier Garron

[totally-not-an-awkward-okapi]

I’ve been twiddling away on a sequel to this post since August, but the specific cartoon-y style I’d committed to just. Drove me nuts. I hate drawing big headed cartoon characters. So! The Complete Gen X team! Now I can finally do what I wanted to, design outfits.

Bonus individual character PNGs for all your paper doll needs.

[sinistermusings]

X-Men Blue: Origins 1 (2023) by Si Spurrier & Wilton Santos

Cover: Russell Dauterman (variant)

[seaweedstarshine]

—on the topic of psychotic Summers brothers, I only just caught up with six months of X-Men after stopping for six months the topic of Gabriel referring to the tags of my last X-Men post a month ago — but I was happy to see Scott's torture-induced psychosis didn't (definitively) turn out just to be that he'd calculated what others hadn't. Yes, the woman he'd accurately calculated would save him was Dr. Gregor, not Jean, but that doesn't change that he remained unsure if Jean was real (and thought she was alive) while the all-seeing Enigma knew on the contrary that Scott was delusional because Phoenix thus equally (an equivocation which casts further doubt of Scott's fiery visions ever being genuine, as Jean's dying mind had departed Scott well before Mother Righteous sacrificed Jean's dead fragmented self for Dominion, before Scott was tortured) Jean — were so utterly dead that Rachel and Hope had to cancel out death to reverse it. Yet Scott, hyper-vigilant traumatized autistic brain-damaged neurodivergent soldier that he is, seemingly accomplished all these strategic calculations while having a psychotic “break,” which is extremely in character for him—

[comicwaren]

From X-Men Vol. 6 #028, “Jail Break!”

Art by Joshua Cassara and Marte Gracia

Written by Gerry Duggan

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

X of Swords: Stasis Cover Art (Michael Del Mundo Variant Cover)