The exploration of different Council members makes for interesting character studies. So, Sinister’s storyline really only appears in three of the six issues.

In fact, Immortal X-Men is best when it’s about Sinister and his plans.īut, as I said, each issue focusses on a different member of the Quiet Council. It’s now the go to choice for Sinister’s character.Īnd Gillen obviously loves to write Sinister, giving him the most important plotline and the most shocking secrets. Gillen was actually the writer who originally gave Sinister this flamboyant personality back in his Uncanny X-Men run. We have already seen what a fun and entertaining character Sinister can be in Zeb Wells’ Hellions series a flamboyantly arrogant and morally corrupt person who you just love to hate. Gillen also gives each member at least one dominant character trait to remember them by, for example, Exodus as a religious zealot who basically worships Hope Summers as the mutant Messiah.įortunately, Gillen starts the series with none other than Mister Sinister. Each character’s narration sounds at least a little different from the others, and the different perspectives give the reader a direct view into the desires and motivations of each Quiet Council member. Trying to nail down six different voices in six consecutive issues – and potentially 12 voices in 12 issues, if this continues – is incredibly difficult.įor the most part, Gillen is successful. It’s hard enough for a writer to get two different narrative voices correct.

Each issue features a different member of the Quiet Council as the point of view character. Gillen chose an ambitious and very difficult approach to Immortal X-Men. And everyone is scheming in some way, trying to drive the mutant paradise toward their own desired goals. Accordingly, in Immortal X-Men everyone has secrets.

The revelations and twists that came out of Hickman’s final X-Men series, Inferno, certainly threw the power dynamic of the Quiet Council into a tailspin. Gillen’s task in Immortal X-Men is to explore the political inner workings of Krakoa’s Quiet Council at a time of great upheaval.

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