The X-Men’s oldest rivals are back to take over Mars

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The world of the X-Men has been a place of great upheaval in the past years. Marvel’s Merry Mutants have gone from superheroes who teach at a school sometimes to stewards and ambassadors of their own sovereign living nation. At a time when explaining what’s going on with the X-Men right now involves high-concept stuff like the singularity, terraforming, and a woman who gets to reset the timeline and do it all over when she dies, it’s nice to take time to appreciate the simple things.

Like Storm going back to her mohawk look, getting a hot new costume, and reforming the Brotherhood of Mutants to be the X-Men of Mars. That? That rules.

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As regent of all of Mars and high leader of a fractious council of isolationist mutants who’ve been away from earth for several millennia, Storm has been reassessing her personal identity, a very classic mood for the character who’s been a street urchin, a goddess, a teacher, a superhero, and a winner of underground knife fights. Meanwhile, Sunspot and Magneto, founder of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants in the first place, are pretty sure they’ve found a traitorous mole on Mars.

Storm’s solution? Mars’ fractured alliances need more than the X-Men. They need a Brotherhood — and thanks to a new Russell Dauterman costume, she’s gonna look rad doing it.

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