For the preceding two weeks , Marvel’sbold X - Men event serieshas taken a pause from its truly bonkers deed of revelation to pass a little time in the future . This week it seems that interlude came to an end with an act of forfeiture to insure that the very intriguing plans of Moira MacTaggert can really commence in earnest .
This week ’s Powers of X # 3 — by Jonathan Hickman , R.B. Silva , Adriano Di Benedetto , Marte Gracia , Clayton Cowles , and Tom Muller — is , much like last week ’s issue , mainly implicated with plot rather than thewider existentialist themesof House of X and Powers ’ first issue . Stripped of the parallels between Moira — in her tenth cycle of dying and rebirth — of the X⁰ timeline and the future revelations of Nimrod and the Librarian ’s intrepid program in the timeline of X³on display last week , Powers of X # 3 has more time to focalise on the suicide charge Apocalypse has contrive for his remaining smattering of misfit , chimeric mutants .
launch an assault on a Human - Machine ascendancy ritual , Rasputin and her team make a flash beguilement , so that Wolverine , Cypher , and Apocalypse can foray into Nimrod ’s program library and extract vital information about the Sentinel ’s origins from his vast archives . The mission , as we were say in Powers # 2 , is an ill - fated one . One by one , Rasputin and her squad go down to the might of the Man - Machine Supremacy ’s force , each hollow moment of triumph realize with mutant stock . When Nimrod clear that his archives are being raided and have to the field himself , even Apocalypse , ever proud and braggart of his interminable status , enters the fray , giving his life so that the mission can succeed .
The X-Men of X² make their final stand.Image: R.B. Silva, Adriano Di Benedetto, and Marte Gracia (Marvel Comics)
It ’s brief and brutal , a astute moment of desperation that feel all too familiar in mutant storey of sempiternal warfare against the Sentinel menace . The sacrifice , the pain , the futility of it all is potent . But as ever , the price is worth paying for the opportunity for mutantkind to make it , and as a wounded Logan fly the scene with Nimrod ’s data in tow , they seemingly get it — when it ’s revealed Logan is give said information to none other than the ninth looping of Moira X herself . With the data embedded into Moira through a bizarre , techno - organic interface on the face of it designed by Apocalypse himself , she now knows how and when Nimrod was first lend online , heralding the sullen time to come that we now know as X² .
But for that information to actually be useful , more mutant blood has to be shed . And not Logan ’s . One more sacrifice has to be made : Moira herself , so she can start her sprightliness again with the burden of the noesis Rasputin , Cardinal , Xorn , and even Apocalypse died to get to her . Logan kills her .
With Moira ’s 9th living at an end , so that her tenth — and potentially net — can begin , we have some solution . But the more questions get answer , the more unreciprocated ones drag in to fill the void . If Moira died so that she could set out anew with the precognition of when Nimrod would come online — the task Charles Xavier admonish his cristal - Men of as something that can not come to fade in the last issue — then … why is Nimrod still around in Powers ’ X³ timeline ? And in such a immensely unlike form , not just physically , but in his outlook on mutantkind ?
Wolverine and Cypher engage in cyber skulduggery.Image: R.B. Silva, Adriano Di Benedetto, Marte Gracia, and Clayton Cowles (Marvel Comics)
The Nimrod - drone aiding the Librarian in X³ in their pursuance to unify a living worldmind of mutant consciousness with the machine - mind that is the classic 10 - Men villain known as the Phalanx is already a wild enough scenario . But what if Moira X ’s tenth aliveness is n’t simply about stopping Nimrod before it can make out online , but simply change its mind enough that it might one day seek to help mutant kind instead of oppress it ?
What if the only way to do that — and the only way to see Moira get that “ maybe 11 ” livesDestiny ’s portentrevealed back in House of X # 2 , something now clearly desperately driving her — is to literally encounter Nimrod in the eye , and become a hybrid of their own together to show the way forward for Sentinel and Mutant alike ? It ’d sure excuse the apparently surprising ending of the Human - Machine - Mutant war , and why a Nimrod with a change of mechanically skillful heart survived that oddment .
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Wolverine and Cypher engage in cyber skulduggery.Image: R.B. Silva, Adriano Di Benedetto, Marte Gracia, and Clayton Cowles (Marvel Comics)
So far these twin serial have been bewitch with three thing : cycles , and how to dampen them , the inevitability of A.I. being turned upon mutantkind and the futile tragedy of that , and crossing — whether that be the motorcar - military man coupling seen inX² ’s future war , the fused chimera mutants fighting them like some kind of outlandish mirror match , or even Nimrod and the Librarian ’s plan with the Phalanx .
Given that fascination , maybe such a melding of Mutant and Sentinel is a logical result . But House and Powers alike have been equally surprising us at every turn — and with the stage now set for Moira X ’s 10th life to really start unfolding to the audience , we ’ll have to wait and see just how all this come together now that the House and Powers can really get underway .
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For he is immortal, and has no end.Image: Russell Dauterman, Matthew Wilson, and Joe Sabino (Marvel Comics)
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He’s very good at what he does, and what he does isn’t very nice.Image: R.B. Silva, Adriano Di Benedetto, Marte Gracia, and Clayton Cowles (Marvel Comics)
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