the xmen really do be bouncing back and forth between being the most dominant force on the planet and being the weakest

i'm still convinced that moria's powers have made her insane. her whole plan to save mutant kind from destruction by slowly destroying them herself, is batshit.

Actually, Juggernaut was the first Villain Nimrod fought when he was diverted back to the 616 timeline, back in X-men 194

X-men is so all over the place.

Kamala's death and revival as a mutant was a ploy to match the mcu just in time for the marvels and the upcoming xmen joining the mcu soon. Same applies for Wanda's "death" in mcu , she will be reintroduced again w a new pietro once the xmen shows up in mcu.

Quick note. Juggernaut is a lot weaker, because he does not get his power from Cyttorack. His suit is powered by Crimson Bands and has the raw energy of the Crimson Gem absorbed into his body. But he no longer has a contract that feeds him power from Cyttorack anymore. Cain Marko has to now figure out how to channel the energy of the Crimson Realm on his own now if he wants any extra power.

Extra context for Juggernaut. He’s not at full power because he’s no longer favored by Cytorrak so he’s using a weaker power source. Just forged some of Cytorrak’s magic into the suit he wears, but he’s not as strong as his classic version.

Rob, out of so many comments, I hope that you see this. Six years ago I discovered your channel. I was so elated because you lit up an interest in me on Comics that I didn't know was there. Everything I know about DC and Marvel comics are all thanks to you. For years, your channel has been a source of enjoyment and de-stress. Your passion for what you do is admirable and contagious. Stay blessed and genuine my friend.

Oh god Kamala’s mutant power will be hard light constructs to match the MCU won’t it

Prodigy is that dude...so dope he made the team!

It's odd how incredibly mighty the X-Men are, then absolutely useless they are in protecting themselves.

"For those of you unfamiliar with Kamala Kahn she is that friend you invite to a party after you remembered you forgot to invite her"

When you first started naming off the chosen team, my first thought after reading X-men for 30 years on and off, was "wow, what a cool team, they are going to absolutely die within no time." I didn't quite expect Dazzler to get ripped in half on the page turn though. After all the mentions of lazy writing that lead us to this moment, immediately putting the new team through the Nimrod blender was a chef's kiss of a choice. Sure, it doesn't make up for the previous bad writing, but it does quite a bit of heavy lifting in that direction.

Wow… this was a hot mess- i had to make sure it was in 616💀💀

Rob you do a great job. Omega level mutant does not mean anything anymore, the X-men should have easily won this fight.

Imma be completely honest if the X-Men don't get a good revenge arc. Then I'm done with the X-Men. I'm sick of them having some of the most strongest people apart of their team. And they continuously keep getting bodied. They are literally walking L's at this point

dazzler can do more than just emit light. she absorbs sonic vibrations and converts it into light. she can also manipulate light. she's also immortal and can resurrect herself from death.

I miss the original Captain Marvel. Need to find a multiverse where he is still alive. Still have the original comics

Is this why she "died"? To be a mutant?

Marvel: Mrs. Marvel is dead! OMG Everyone: oh yea? Marvel three weeks later: Mrs Marvel is back Everyone: "Oh wow, we're so surprised u brought her back...right around the time the Marvels movie is coming out. Totally didn't see that coming (obvious sarcasm).

Prodigy (David Alleyne) has the ability to gain the knowledge and skills of anyone he comes into contact with. He also can retain/recall the knowledge that he gained thanks to the Cuckoos unlocking a previous mental block✅️👍🏾 Prodigy is awesome😎 6:24

I don't know if enough emphasis is placed on exactly what Jean did. Especially, shielding everyone from the Shockwave of Nimrod's arrival, then creating a sonic boom again when she threw Juggernaut at him then directed the Shockwave of said attack back at him.

Just to clarify, everyone didn't stop fighting when Moira put her knife to Xavier's neck, HE stopped them using his telepathy. HE forcibly made all the mutants stop resisting and he made them all walk through the gates, seemingly to their deaths. This is the unforgivable part for Xavier. He took away everybody's free will in that moment and situation, and made the choice for them. Seeing Jean k*lled, they clearly were about to rally and most likely would have won. But Xavier took that choice away from them because he wanted to save the humans. The saying: "we don't negotiate with terrorists" exists for a reason. That's what Xavier was doing; and he placed the importance of human lives above all of the mutant lives. He in no way should've been surprised that they were going to lie and double cross him. While it's likely going to be true that the mutants weren't all k*llled (I don't think they got teleported away into the k*lling fields in the Arrako war as Rob suggests, or into a "grinder" as Xavier seems to believe and suggest. In fact, I think the comic seems to imply perhaps that Mother Righteous somehow has captured all of the mutants now?), but they could've been, and it definitely would've been on his hands, and until we see otherwise, their blood *is* on his hands. Orchis coerces and intimidates him into believing that it would be his fault if the humans all k*lled themselves, but they would be to blame because they did it. Once again, in his hubris, Charles takes that responsibility all onto himself. Orchis played upon his ego and hubris. It's his arrogance that is truly the downfall in this situation. What he should've been doing is using his telepathy to broadcast what was happening live to the rest of the world for everyone to see. For them to see what Orchis was doing. Particularly for them to see firsthand when they killed the human hostages that are there on the island. He should've been broadcasting MODOK sharing out the ways that Orchis had tainted their medicines and took humanity hostage. So very disappointed in Charles. Again, it's clear, at least hopefully, the community population survives. But when they come out the other end of this, none of them are going to trust Xavier. And they will be right in that feeling. In his hubris, the great savior of mutantkind is actually the one who chose to sacrifice them all, and ultimately their downfall. And I think that's going to be unforgivable for much of mutantkind. Certainly an exciting story to be sure, but it's hard to see characters like Xavier, Beast, (and Moira right now) irredeemably characterized.

After all these years, the Juggernaut still don't have a writer, they treat him like a punching bag

*TLDR:* Modern superhero stories have forgotten the importance of friendly neighborhood superheroes and what's happening to Kamala Khan right now is just a really prominent (and sad) example of that. ...I was just going for a brief explanation here but ended up writing a full essay, so here's my explanation behind this claim. I feel like some of the more recent writers of comics (and the MCU) are forgetting some of the biggest points of superheroes and don't get what makes some of the best characters the best characters. Like Ms. Marvel, on paper, has nothing going for her. She's a legacy character of a legacy character without any ties to the previous Marvels before she gets her powers. She's an inhuman, way less popular than the mutants, guaranteed to be less of a hit. She doesn't have particularly strong powers - like, she can grow, shrink, and stretch and that's it! She isn't a super genius, she doesn't have great heroes in her family, and when she was introduced she wasn't exactly a main player - she was just some kid in New Jersey fighting the bad guys in her hometown. But somehow she's still one of the most popular characters in the last decade of comics! She's been in a bunch of superhero teams, gets cameos in the giant crossover events, and started the new Champions! Like, she isn't super powerful and doesn't have some grand destiny or anything like that going for her, and her own comics spent just as much time focusing on her real-life stuff, like her parents and her friends, as much as the shiny superhero fights. Kamala Khan is the perfect Friendly Neighborhood Superhero. She punches the local supervillains, goes on patrols around her neighborhood to catch random thugs, and tries to maintain that normal, teenage life in the same way you have Peter Parker trying to deal with his everyday normal problems along with fighting Doc Ock and Green Goblin. And that's why she works as a character! She's relatable; sometimes her biggest problem is a fight with her parents or drama with her friends or just trying to figure out that work-life balance (which are problems that comic readers can relate to; most people who read comics aren't multibillionaires or in a secret school for super-powered kids). Kamala isn't some ultra-powerful cosmic entity, she's just a kid trying to do the right thing and help out the people around her. She doesn't need to be the most powerful superhero to be one of the best, all she needs to do is help out the people she's fighting for. To paraphrase that deleted scene from the first Spider-Verse, "don't think about saving the world. Think about saving one person." That's what she does. She isn't saving the world every month. She's just helping the people around her as best she can. And that's fucking inspiring! Seeing a character just trying to do the best they can to help their community without some grand destiny or getting whisked away to another world they have to save just feels more grounded than the giant, everyone-who's-anyone-is-here, end of the world crossover events that modern Marvel seems obsessed with. It feels real. Idk how common this experience is, but as a teenager who was overwhelmed with how fucked up the world is, reading a story about someone who couldn't save the whole world, but instead focused on just doing what they could to help those around them was fucking inspiring! Because it made me feel like I could do something and make a difference, cause even though I can't save the world (none of us can!) I can help the people around me and that can make a difference for the better. Didn't mean to make that so personal, but to me, that's what it feels like superhero stories should be about. If the whole world is always in peril it doesn't feel like it's in peril anymore; those just feel like the standard "we're doing this again" stakes. The MCU has done this a lot; the world always needs to be saved and that just doesn't feel like it matters anymore, which sucks, because the world ending should feel big and dangerous! But it just feels boring! The last MCU thing that I had any investment in by the end was the Hawkeye show, and that's because the stakes felt personal and real! There was something to get invested in that wasn't "the fate of the whole world" because there's no point in getting invested in that because they're gonna save the world, obviously, because the stories are so profitable there's no way they end now. Redoing Ms. Marvel's origins, taking her away from her community that her comics spent so much time in, hell, even some of the more recent comics that threw her into deep space to save another planet - it all feels like they just don't get what made Kamala Khan a good superhero. She didn't need to be the greatest or the best, she just needed to do good.

Always amazing content. 10/10

I don't like Mrs. Marvel becoming a mutant. After her mini series she is likely to fade into the background of X-Men books like Gwenpool or never mentioned again like the deviants. What's worse is they are probably going to cover up her Inhuman history even though the writer of her mini series said she won't ignore it. This is especially apparent in her one shot funeral book. There were no Inhuman characters present despite the fact that they were just as close (if not closer) to her as some of the other heroes who attended. Lockjaw, Medusa, Quake, MoonGirl and others. Heck, lockjaw helped her defeat her first supervillain. X-Men titles are just taking everything that's fun and unique in the Marvel universe Kamala, Gwenpool, Daredevil villains, Iron Man, Eternals lore, Spider-Man stories and more. I was on cautious about the krakoa era at first, but was enjoying some of the X-Men books, but now I'm almost disgusted with the X-Men brand.

"Avenge Krakoa" to me indicates the Avengers are finally gonna step up and be proper allies to the X-Men, unlike so many times where they've just kept to themselves

Wyn= Mastermind? Looks like old school Jason Wyngarde to me

Fun video! Can't wait to see what happens next

But the thing is...they just brought back Captain America not too long ago during the Eternals vs Xmen series so is he a mutant now?

If Khan is coming to xmen can Bishop become a free agent and do some intergalactic travel while learning how to use his power more efficiently(like say he is struck by lightning and he uses that energy to be durable as luke cage. At the same time can use kinetic energy to keep himself super strong like Gentle).

So Prodigy is a former Young X-man. He can duplicate any skill anyone else knows by heart. So like Dr. Strange's magic, Wolverine's martial arts. Cyclop's tactics. you get the idea. After M-Day he was depowered and the Cookoos removed a mental block so he could access all the skills he had previously absorbed. If this is a clone, I don't know what that means for his powers.

This is bout to get crazy over the next few months

Got my coffee and now my comics ☕️

I would love to see the Avengers finally step in and AVENGE the mutants.

Man I’d love it if you did like a summary of the stories till now as there is just soo many lol and it’s just so daunting catching up.

I been waiting for this

The juggernaut with the bow tie.

The eternals and inhumans bomb.. lets shifter her to something people actually like maybe then she will be popular

Kevin Feige demanded this

Awesome!

So is there like a running list of which X-men are dead? It's getting hard to keep track.

Magneto of some sort seems to be in the new Scarlett Witch book. Granted, it could be an imposter but he has the traditional Magneto powers.

Because of course she is.

I'll never get tired of Rob smack talking my favorite characters lol. Big love man

Rob you’ve been reading comics longer than I’ve been alive so to hear you downplay dazzler is quite interesting.

Juggernaut and Nimrod have fought before back in the late 80s. Nimrod usedSonic attacks to screw up his brain

Wait, how can Juggernaut be on Krakoa? He's not a mutant, his powers are magical in nature...

Every time I see Charles Xavier I think it's Ultimate Reed Richards.

They're going to make her Professor X 🤣🤣

Dang that ending is crazy. The change to Khamala is okay. It didn’t really need to happen

I'm sooooo glad Prodigy is on the team and with Synch!!!!!!!! Prodigy's powers are like Synch but with knowledge, skills, etc... the two of them together is going to make them both Beyond Omega level!!! As their powers work off of each other creating an ever more powerful circuit in each of their powers and abilities!!!! I love the possibilities for them together. And, please don't hate on Dazzler as she's not as useless as some like to say & is potentially another Omega. The implications/applications of her powers are quite powerful when utilized properly; and on the team with Synch and Prodigy ❤❤❤🎉

I loved Sins of Sinister, such an insane and ambitious plot line, amazing!

Wow can't wait for the next issue 😨🤞

Basically everyone dies the end for good reason because the Krakoa era is over.

Thank you Rob, This was really good.

So she was just dead for like an hour?

Love this team

That inhumans tv show did so much damage that the inhumans are being turned back into mutants with the X-macguffin?

They should have had Legion in there helping!!! I wish they would write him some vindicating kick-ass stories.

They should drop Thanos’s grandfather on em’. It would be over in 10 mins. On a more serious side, looks like Apocalypse will be returning in the near future.

9:37 I don't understand how the gates are the only way into Krakoa if nimrod just flew there from space

Dazzler should be nicknamed Starfish due to the costume.

Why do they always make the X-mens backs against the wall, they have some of the most powerful beings but always get wiped out. It’s a broken record at this point

Suddenly, I'm starting to miss Chris Claremont X-Men.

The more things change the more they stay the same. There is no "happily ever after" for the X-Men. Eventually it all comes crumbling down yet again.

BRO RIGHT ON TIME!!!!

As a long time X-men reader this was definitely the biggest L I have seen them take in years and there have been some doozys in the past 😅

I’m the Juggernaut b****!!!

You rarely release a video this fast lol. Glad youre the first one on this issue.

I cant wait to see Rogue go HAM all Kill Bill Style. She will always be one of my favorite characters!

Dazzler??? Why Rob hate on Dazzler but show love to Boom-Boom?

First of big thanks to you Rob and your ongoing enthusiasm. It must be hard sometimes. Must admit Captain Marvel scrubs up very nicely for the gala. That's quite an outfit. Whether it's good in combat is another matter. So Marvel is rewriting Ms Marvel to match her Tv Series mutant origins. Did they really need to kill her (and in such a poor way?) Wyn looks like a young Jason Wyngarde (Mastermind). Now the rant: First off how pray tell can a human Moira McTaggert sneak up on Jean Grey if EVERYONE else is frozen? Introduce a new team of radically different X-Men roster and kill them on the next page - that's just a hack excuse for shock and gore. Didn't we do this already with Sinister? This is just Sins of Sinister all over again. No one believes they have killed all those mutants, again. 6 months, a year and they'll pull the Dallas trick yet again and it all was a dream. Its not innovative, its repetition just is a slightly different way - and they even used another Sinister to do it! Sigh. DC is no better (Batman who Laughs becoming a god). The Avengers are supposed to be Earth;s Mightest Heroes but compared to the Omega Level mutants even Thor and Captain Marvel are jokes by comparison. How can anyone relate to these people. It's seems to be just buying into the internet idiots who are fixated on who is more powerful. This is what has irritated me with a lot of Marvel recently. They are suffering power creep in ridiculous ways as a way of raising the stakes. It just depresses me thinking back to the Great series from Civil War to Siege. That was a great saga. Everything since from Heroic Age onwards has been disappointing (with a few exceptions like Secret Empire although even that was just a tweak of the Dark Reign story line which ended up being solved by that good ol' mcguffin the Cosmic Cube). Apologies to all rant over.

I'm still tripping over the fact that I saw Iceman ....melt...

Remember when death on comics used to mean something?

I always thought it would make more sense , if when the Kree made the inhumans, it was based on the dormant mutant gene. So Inhumans would be an offshoot of mutants, but with an advantage of being able to trigger the onset of powers with teragenisis. (you could theories that is why the Kree made the inhumans, to activate the mutant powers) just my idea.

Remember Destiny saved Manifold! A quarter million mutants were probably saved as to protect them from harm by him. That was Destiny's plan all along, they're probably fine! Also The Five survived (were saved by Exodus) so resurrection is fine too! Storm, Captain Britain and Askani weren't at the party and probably more!

Need the rest of this story

this is good honestly

Wow... why on Earth would they do something this dumb just so that their characters can be identical to the MCU

Couldn’t care less.

Juggernaut fought the first Nimrod we see from the future actually in Uncanny X-Men 194.

So 1) Don’t downplay Dazzler. She’s a legacy character who should be an Omega level mutant..she’s had her own series for about five or six years where she faced many supervillains and survived…she even went toe to toe with Rogue…she was a Herald for Galactus, the Beyonder had the hots for her as did Angel, Beast, Wolverine and Longshot with whom she became the mom of Shatterstar…she’s been affiliated with Xmen, Excalibur, Avengers, Shield, Boom-Boom and Jubilee are copies of Dazzler…and…for some reason she is unable to be killed. So Dazzler matters. She’s dope! Now it’s interesting that Nimrod took down Dazzler, Cannonball, Jubilee, Frenzy, Prodigy, Iceman, and Juggernaut. Moira kills Jean for a specific reason. All of these characters are heavy hitters and together could have destroyed Nimrod and Orchis. This has Mister Sinister written all over it. The poisoning of Krakoas medicine was genius!!!! The alleged murder of all mutants who passed through the portal and Professer X’s grief…genius!!!! The Hellfire Gala was dope! But put some respect on Dazzler’s name…she’s an underrated legend.

This is the best thing coming out of DC Rebirth

A lot of key details were left out. Jean was really the MVP and did so much in this issue. And she is not one of the most powerful telepaths in Marvel, she is the most powerful telepaths and had amazing feats in this issue. Heart broken with all the tragedy, Xmen will recover.

6:25 i started to like prodgy in the krokoa era and think hes powerful

long time watcher big fan- just wanted to say you got name dropped on the Joe Rogan Podcast from Brian Simpson this week. Was dope to hear a solid dude get props on a big stage- keep up the good work brotha🤙🏻

Wow, this started off so cool then ended so badly

These new xmen stories are crazy, on my opinion there should be no way nimrod can beat and kill the juggernaut.

omg omg this was nuts

For years I have avoided articles and whatever talking about big comic book events and I’m so glad I’ve been doing that because holy shit this shocked me. I didn’t expect the attacks to pop off so fast!!! I felt like I screamed on every page lol it was so much going on.

No way Nimrod beats Juggernaut and if humans and mutants fought humans would lose bad

The X-Men sucks now 😢

I haven’t followed comics all that much but im happy that Synch is back! And with X23!?

So they can fix cyclops brain damage so he could control his powers and they're just choosing not to?

Kamala can finally rejoice that she isn’t cursed with being an Inhuman and having to call Black Bolt her king anymore. There are no Kamala Khans to this. Only Kamala Pros.

Lol marvel...... Her death and return as a mutant was always happening. Meh

Dope

Such a great comic