The chronology of any comic book storyline or character—woven throughout decades of creative teams, retcons, and realignments to the narrative—is always a complicated affair.
Deadpool & Wolverine’s new trailer yesterday didn’t really give fresh details on what the film’s going to be about, beyond the vague threat of multiversal shenanigans and Wade and Logan’s team-up.
Few singular words in the long canon of the X-Men’s comic book history evoke the weight of mutantkind’s story of survival and extinction than “Genosha.” The island nation is a fundamental turning point in the comics’ long exploration of mutant statehood and
X-Men ‘97 has so far been a nostalgia feast for fans of the much-loved X-Men: The Animated Series,
X-Men ‘97's love-letter continuation of the original X-Men animated series is not just a chance to revisit the world left behind by this particular take on Marvel mutantdom, but incorporate more ideas and interpretations of the metaphor mutantkind has provided across decades of comics.
When mutantkind established its own sovereign nation on Krakoa, it established three new tenants for the newly-unified species to live by: Make More Mutants, Murder No Man, and Respect This Sacred Land.