The X-Men have a hell now, and Sabretooth is the devil
In the world of the X-Men, most villains have developed sympathetic and redeeming qualities at some point. That’s just what happens when your superhero soap opera about an oppressed class goes on for more than two or three decades. But I think if you ask any X-Men fan, they’d agree: Sabretooth hasn’t. Fuck that guy!
When the creative minds behind the X-Men’s Krakoan era needed a scapegoat to demonstrate the new Mutant state’s version of capital punishment, they logically picked Sabretooth. In House of X #6, the Quiet Council dropped Sabretooth into a bottomless pit for potentially all of eternity and we haven’t seen him again until now, with Sabretooth #1.
How interesting could a comic about a guy trapped “alive but immobile, aware but unable to act on it” be? Well. Pretty dang interesting, actually. I look forward to the next issue.
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The simplest summary of Sabretooth #1 is that it’s The Good Place with more of a twist. The intelligent island of Krakoa itself is generally cool with all the mutant stuff happening on it, but it’s not so hot on being a prison. So it offers Sabretooth freedom of his mind: The ability to act out a simulation of whatever sick fantasies he wants, forever.
But the real meat of the story of Sabretooth shows up in the issue’s final pages. Just as Sabretooth settles in to
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