

How has this breakthrough been developed? Whence is it derived? What are the political ramifications in a world in which Homo Sapiens has found itself increasingly impotent in the face of an emerging, physically stronger sub-species? And would you or wouldn't you, if you were a mutant? Would you want the easier life that might come with fitting in better with the flock, or do you prize your individuality and consider it a gift rather than a curse? Each of these questions will spill into future storylines but here it splits the mutant community, including the school, right down the middle. But that's nothing to the rifts that are raised when an apparent "cure" is discovered and broadcast on the national news, a cure that can reverse whatever manifestations of the mutant gene have already surfaced in young men and women across the globe. When former student Kitty Pryde returns to the mansion with her own verbal claws, Emma finds herself under fresh scrutiny and on the receiving end of as many bons mots as she can dish out.

But things have been awkward for a while ever since former telepathic adversary Emma Frost joined the school, insinuated her way into Scott's heart, and cast pithy put-downs like a cat spraying its territory. We stick together and don't panic or overreact.

We're a people and there's no way anybody can makes us be what they want. nobody's going to force it on you.Mutants are a community. "Wing, just 'cause someone goes on TV and says they have a "cure for mutation".

When you're flying, in a very literal sense the world goes away. Here's the original review for volume one. Collects the first two volumes of four exceptional books created by Whedon and Cassady, more about the humanity than the hitting of things.
