I just finished hox/pox #6. As an X-Men Comics beginner with some lore background I have some questions about the end:
What I understand:
- the new endgame is not humans vs mutants anymore, it's both or just mutants stalling technical advancement long enough to prevent Homo novissima from popping up
- Homo novissima pops up when technical advancements enable dna manipulation and dna manipulation enables machine advancement
- Homo novissima develops a god complex
- Moira tried to stay alive as long as possible during live 6 to see the endgame and understand the who and why
- she is the reason that Xavier is behaving different because she needed him to lose his love of humanity
- there is still at least one darker secret behind the three of Moira, Xavier and Magneto to be unveiled
What I don't understand:
- Homo novissima is behaving like a personified villain that's been around forever - it is still at least decades out from ever existing as even a first, isn't it?
It was more that humans were always the enemy as they eventually become Homo Novissima.
- and from there it's evolving without evolution thanks to machine. But that is as a species not as an individual?
Evolution ceases to matter when they can manipulate their own DNA.
- what exactly was that plan? If it understood what Moira is, why would it send both her and wolverine off world? That wouldn't prevent suicide at any point - that was even possible in the zoo
If Moira was to die before they could be absorbed into the Phalanx then reality would reset (which is what happened when Wolverine killed her). They were going to be sent off planet so that they would be absorbed before that happened. The Phalanx can exist outside of time when they enter into a dominion. If they knew about Moira's power they would snuff her out when she is born, and prevent the rebirth cycle.
- is Sinister the one that kick-starts Homo novissima with his dna manipulation?
I believe this was a different reality that will come into play later on based on how the dominions exist. Sinister created an omega-based chimera batch with a hive mind that was corrupted and all died (or did they?) after collapsing into a self-singularity. Most likely we will see this hive mind in the future.
- does it matter if they use a normal human or a mutant as a base?
It was humans in the book, that is never brought up from what I can see.
- why does Homo novissima act like it had planned all this out? It clearly didn't at the point most of the X-Men universe takes place in.
I think that was just a villain speech about how humanity would always adapt and win.
- what is the second Krakoa?
- is there anything in the books so far that took place there?
Not sure about these.
Overall I loved the world building and the setting of a giant play board that can develop a lot without reaching a new stale status quo soon. But there are maybe too many hooks at play here to get people to read on. I get that it's too much to develop all of it in 12 issues, but they have basically wet up an unsolved mystery a page.
I feel like reading on at least a little, so I'll probably get the X-Men comics and the other one that Hickman writes - was it New Mutants?
