X-Men's Immortal Utopia Is Being Crushed By Capitalism
Warning: preview images for Immortal X-Men #4 are ahead!
As the 2nd Annual Hellfire Gala begins throughout the X-Men titles the festival's organizer Emma Frost is dealing with a million fires, including the recent reveal to the world about mutant immortality, a reveal that is threatening to allow human capitalism to destroy the mutants utopia of Krakoa. The nation of Krakoa was built on deals and threats with the human governments of the world, but the mutants were always in control, and now humanity is threatening to cause Krakoa to lose its powerful hold on Earth.
With the horrifying threat of A.X.E.: Judgment Day looming over the X-Men, it is clear that this year's Hellfire Gala is going to be even more explosive than last year's, but possibly not in the way Emma Frost had intended. Scott Summers, Emma Frost's ex-lover and now ambiguously flirty coworker, recently gave the world-shattering news of mutant immortality to the journalist Ben Ulrich, allowing Krakoa's tightest kept secret to be revealed to the world.
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A preview for Immortal X-Men #4 — brilliantly written by Kieron Gillen with art by Michele Bandini — shows Emma Frost attempting to solve a ton of crises, with the solicit for the issue stating she "...will do anything to protect the children, including the metaphorical child that is the Hellfire Gala." As Emma takes a step out of the lively Hellfire Gala she is approached by Ma Mingyu the head of the Chinese State Science Department who once posed as an ambassador to gain access to Krakoa's Jerusalem Habitat when the nation was first founded. Mingyu calls Emma, and Krakoa, out for «only» offering humanity a drug that would
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