To say I’m loving this is an understatement. I’ve never been a comic book enthusiasts, but I think House of X is going to mark the moment I became one. This issues centers on Moira MacTaggart. When I was a child she was featured in the X-Men animated series, but she was the non-mutant scientist ex girlfriend of Charles Xavier. Hickman has retcon her backstory. If past history is any indication, many fans will hate this. Comic book fans tend to hate it when writers retcon anything that was well established in the past. However, I think Hickman has what it takes to make it work. Besides he’s is trying to restart the X-Men.
If you read Powers of X #1, you know that MacTaggart meets Xavier but he’s doesn’t seem to know her. However, she knows him. When Xavier reads her mind he understands. This moment is confusing, but House of X #2 clarifies it. Hickman makes Moira into a mutant with the ability of reincarnation. After dying she retains all her memories from her previous life. She isn’t reincarnated into a new body and she’s not born into the present moment when she died. Meaning every time she’s dies, she returns to the day her life started the first time. This allows her to change the future, as she is aware of her past and can make different choices.
Each resurrection results in Moira becomes more and more radical. In her third life she decides to “cure” mutants, thinking that she has a disease like cancer. However, she doesn’t get a chance to as Mystique and Destiny intervene. Her beliefs regarding mutants are changed by this encounter with Destiny, who can see the future. She tells Moira that “she not immortal” and only has 10 or 11 lives to live. Destiny makes it clear that she will hunt down and kill Moira, if she doesn’t change. Moira views shift to protecting her fellow mutants. Moira is negatively influence by her experiences, eventually become evil, teaming up with Magneto and then Apocalypse.
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In her tenth and maybe final life, she plans on doing something. After allowing Xavier to read her mind, he becomes radicalize as well. This leans to the change in him that we have been witnessing. House of X focuses on her tenth life. By giving Charles the knowledge she had collected over the years give him the advantage of knowing what went wrong. Of course in Powers of X #1, we know that they fail again. Regardless, Hickman’s House of X, is exciting and new X-Men story that I can’t wait to finish.
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