Deron Generally
Deron Generally
Age of X-Man: The X-Tremists #1
Marvel Comics
Written by Leah Williams
Art by Georges Jeanty
Inks by Roberto Poggi
Colors by Jim Charalampidis
Letters by Clayton Cowles
The X-Tremists, the authorities on keeping the mutant population and Nate Gey’s utopia pure are about to run into a complication they never imagined.
As they gather in their home for down time, we get a sense of the dynamics at play between the members including the jovial attitudes of Iceman and Jubilee. When Blob lets them know they have a mission, they get into gear and get moving.
The job they have is to arrest two mutants who have violated the law for the third time and begun a relationship which they are trying to hide form society. In order to keep control of society, they have to weed out situations like this that go against the new evolved order of mutantkind.
Unfortunately, they find the couple harder to subdue than they expected and when they refuse to come quietly, Psylocke, Blob and Iceman take a more extreme approach to stopping them. When they finally get them in custody, they find out that the two are hiding a bigger secret than just their forbidden relationship.
I found myself conflicted about this book on several levels. Leah Williams writes these beloved characters in the same way they’ve been written in the past. The personalities that readers have connected with are still there, but the acts they perform as a group and their mandate are so distasteful that it’s hard to reconcile how they aren’t the bad guys in this piece, especially in their own estimation. That’s what makes this book so interesting and subversive. The reader has to determine if they can connect with good people doing a bad thing because they think what they are doing is right.
Goerges Jeanty provides some brilliant and beautiful art in this issue as well. All of the characters look great and the art complements the tone of the story perfectly.
Age of X-Man The X-Tremists #1
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