Moira’s Deepest Fears Revealed in “Powers of X#6”

Writer: Jonathan Hickman / Artists: R.B. Silva & Pepe Larraz / Marvel “We are the perfect tools for an imperfect age.” X-Men fans can admit – Wednesdays for the three months have been the highlight of the past year, if not decades for old school mutant readers.  Jonathan Hickman’s words, Pepe Larraz and R.B. Silva’s images, and Marte Garcia’s colors revitalized the style, energy, history and purpose of the X-Men in a way that makes us forget there was a time when they were lowered to fighting the likes of the Inhumans. In the grand finale of the Powers of X/House of X twin series, new seeds are sown, secrets revealed, and questions raised that will shape at least the next two years of X-storytelling. Alive and remaining in isolation in her “No Space” beneath the surface of Krakoa, Moira X takes the spotlight in this issue. The revelation of what experienced in her sixth life stretches to Year X3 – the one thousandth year of X-Men history where the last mutants, humans, and animals live in a preserve as a humanity lies on the verge of their Ascension to merge into the universal collective intelligence of the Phalanx.  Logan and Moria exist within the preserve as the last specimen of home superioro. The Librarian, a Homo Novissima and result of the homo sapien-nanosentinel fusion, visits them to propose a challenge. Knowing Moira’s power to resurrect and interfere in the timeline, he challenges her to convince him to let her die and potentially stop the Ascension in her new…