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By Kevin Mahadeo
X-fans of the world, get ready to join a new nation this September when writer Matt Fraction begins an all-new, all-different era in mutant history with Nation X, the next step in the evolution of X-Men stories.
"It's not so much a storyline as a status quo update-a mandate dictated by the way things are coming out of Utopia and DARK REIGN: THE LIST-UNCANNY X-Men," explains Fraction. "Things change in a very big, very real and very different way. You've never seen the mutants in the position they're in at the end of DARK AVENGERS/UNCANNY X-MEN, and Nation X speaks to and of that change."
Fraction remains silent over the exact details of Nation X, as the storyline follows the direct consequence of events currently ongoing in both DARK AVENGERS and UNCANNY X-MEN. However, the writer reveals that Nation X acts a definite, seeable change within the X-Men franchise and puts the merry mutants in a position different from any they've ever been in before.
"For 30, 40, 50 years, the X-Men have been stuck in this sort of dichotomy between Professor X's dream and Magneto's vision," says Fraction. "It's become this sort of black-white, yes-no state. Now, between that dream and that vision, Scott has come up with a plan. There's a third way, and that's what we're exploring. What happens when Scott gets to sit at the big boy table, and what is Scott's plan for his people as framed by his faith in Hope, the mutant baby off of CABLE?"
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"It's pretty great and pretty weird and pretty spooky all at the same time," admits Fraction. "I always sort of forget where I am, and what has come out and what hasn't come out because it's this really complex, slow plan. It's like, 'Oh right. The Magneto thing. We can finally talk about that now because it's finally being published.' But it's been happening in my head for two and a half years. It's weird. It's like what time travel should be like."
As for how he personally sees the character of Magneto, Fraction says that while he finds the character's actions rather repugnant at times, the events of the past few years may have had an impact on how the one-time Brotherhood of Evil Mutants leader sees himself and the actions he often takes to achieve his goals.
"He is a person unafraid of extremes and who has no moral equivocation when it comes to using violence as a tool for persuasion," says Fraction. "Personally, I'm repulsed by that, but I can put myself in his shoes and pretend I'm not repulsed by that. Magneto is a guy who looks at violence and who looks at terror and sees them as a means to an end. Or at least, he did...
"What if it was Magneto who articulated that 'Scott has found a third way' notion? Stay tuned. Or stay subscribed."
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About time.....I'm really looking forward to this. :magneto: :x-men:
I know some of you are looking forward to this but they have already done alot of stoires about the xmen making their own countires. and they all had magneto in them. Asteroid M and Genoshia are the biggest ones.we all know whats going to happen from there. mutants make country. country is great. people get scared of country. deus ex machina blows up country and another deus ex machina makes ...
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I know some of you are looking forward to this but they have already done alot of stoires about the xmen making their own countires. and they all had magneto in them. Asteroid M and Genoshia are the biggest ones.we all know whats going to happen from there. mutants make country. country is great. people get scared of country. deus ex machina blows up country and another deus ex machina makes every one move back home.Give it time the x-men will be back in new york. they just gotta burn through all this all other crap
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Man i never looked forward for the end of Utopia cause it didn't make that much of an impact in the larger dark reign storyline but with Nation X in the vicinity i might just let go of Blackest Night and Amazing Spiderman for a while :x-men:. Before i forget i hope X Force gets more wet works and if magneto passes the line (what i think he will) Scott should make the call and finally end is ...
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Man i never looked forward for the end of Utopia cause it didn't make that much of an impact in the larger dark reign storyline but with Nation X in the vicinity i might just let go of Blackest Night and Amazing Spiderman for a while :x-men:. Before i forget i hope X Force gets more wet works and if magneto passes the line (what i think he will) Scott should make the call and finally end is life in the mainstream continuity
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Man i never looked forward for the end of Utopia cause it didn't make that much of an impact in the larger dark reign storyline but with Nation X in the vicinity i might just let go of Blackest Night and Amazing Spiderman for a while :x-men:. Before i forget i hope X Force gets more wet works and if magneto passes the line (what i think he will) Scott should make the call and finally end is ...
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Man i never looked forward for the end of Utopia cause it didn't make that much of an impact in the larger dark reign storyline but with Nation X in the vicinity i might just let go of Blackest Night and Amazing Spiderman for a while :x-men:. Before i forget i hope X Force gets more wet works and if magneto passes the line (what i think he will) Scott should make the call and finally end is life in the mainstream continuity
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Very interetsing...I didn't like MutantTown being blown away.I hope also the HEv will have an important part into all of this... but not the real Deus Ex Machina that will finally unite friends and foes...