House of M
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drspleen's evangelism finally wore me down and I accepted the greatness of Brian Michael Bendis into my life. In order to keep my faith alive between Powers trades — for some unknown reason, they don't seem to travel west of Bristol — I've spent this week reading House of M.
After an acute loss of control, which resulted in the deaths of many of the Avengers, Wanda Maximoff has traveled to Genosha, where she is under the care of Charles Xavier. Concerned by the danger Wanda's reality warping powers pose to the world and his waning ability to keep her under control, Xavier heads to New York to consult with the Avengers and the X-Men. Unable to come to a consensus, the two groups decide to go to Genosha and talk to Wanda in person, in an attempt to determine her condition. Overhearing this, Pietro Maximoff becomes convinced that the combined force is coming to kill his sister and asks his father for advice, only to find that Magneto is just as uncertain as Professor X. Upon their arrival, the superheros are engulfed in a white light and find themselves elsewhere.
Elsewhere, as it turns out, is where each of the always wanted to be. Emma Frost and Scott Summers are married, Shadowcat is a teacher, Peter Parker is married to Gwen Stacy and the majority of the population are mutants. The superiors are lead by the House of Magnus, under Magneto and children, while Charles Xavier remains strangely absent.
Upon waking in the brave new world, Wolverine finds himself to be a senior SHIELD operative with a perfect memory of his past, something he immediately knows to be false. Escaping from his erstwhile colleagues, Wolverine quickly finds himself caught up in a sapiens resistance organisation lead by Luge Cage. After listening to Wolverine's account of why the world is false, Cage reveals his trump card, a child called Layla who can both remember how things used to be and restore the memories of others. Using Layla's powers Wolverine, Cage and the rest gradually gather together the dispersed heroes, restore their memories and attempt to come up with a way to put things right.
Although I'm not generally a huge fan of the vast, sprawling Marvel universes — they seem to assume that everyone has read every single issue of every single X-Men/Spiderman/whatever comic since the dawn of time — House of M won me over. Perhaps is was the way that all the characters made a fresh start, perhaps it was the fun of seeing the world turned upside and ruled mutants, or maybe it was it was just the chance to see Magneto, always my one of my favourite characters, finally getting to rule over everything that did it for me.
drspleen's evangelism finally wore me down and I accepted the greatness of Brian Michael Bendis into my life. In order to keep my faith alive between Powers trades — for some unknown reason, they don't seem to travel west of Bristol — I've spent this week reading House of M.After an acute loss of control, which resulted in the deaths of many of the Avengers, Wanda Maximoff has traveled to Genosha, where she is under the care of Charles Xavier. Concerned by the danger Wanda's reality warping powers pose to the world and his waning ability to keep her under control, Xavier heads to New York to consult with the Avengers and the X-Men. Unable to come to a consensus, the two groups decide to go to Genosha and talk to Wanda in person, in an attempt to determine her condition. Overhearing this, Pietro Maximoff becomes convinced that the combined force is coming to kill his sister and asks his father for advice, only to find that Magneto is just as uncertain as Professor X. Upon their arrival, the superheros are engulfed in a white light and find themselves elsewhere.
Elsewhere, as it turns out, is where each of the always wanted to be. Emma Frost and Scott Summers are married, Shadowcat is a teacher, Peter Parker is married to Gwen Stacy and the majority of the population are mutants. The superiors are lead by the House of Magnus, under Magneto and children, while Charles Xavier remains strangely absent.
Upon waking in the brave new world, Wolverine finds himself to be a senior SHIELD operative with a perfect memory of his past, something he immediately knows to be false. Escaping from his erstwhile colleagues, Wolverine quickly finds himself caught up in a sapiens resistance organisation lead by Luge Cage. After listening to Wolverine's account of why the world is false, Cage reveals his trump card, a child called Layla who can both remember how things used to be and restore the memories of others. Using Layla's powers Wolverine, Cage and the rest gradually gather together the dispersed heroes, restore their memories and attempt to come up with a way to put things right.
Although I'm not generally a huge fan of the vast, sprawling Marvel universes — they seem to assume that everyone has read every single issue of every single X-Men/Spiderman/whatever comic since the dawn of time — House of M won me over. Perhaps is was the way that all the characters made a fresh start, perhaps it was the fun of seeing the world turned upside and ruled mutants, or maybe it was it was just the chance to see Magneto, always my one of my favourite characters, finally getting to rule over everything that did it for me.
