by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief

SPOILERS ABOUND! Back in Powers of X (by Hickman, et al) Moira MacTaggart was revealed to be not a human after all, but a mutant whose power is that her death resets reality. It was in recent months, (see Immortal X-Men and while you’re at it, just read every X-book for the past four years—you’re welcome) Mister Sinister learned of Moira’s existence and schemed to game the system, using clones of her to reset reality every time he failed to take over Krakoa, the world, and the galaxy. Eventually, the sins of Sinister pay off and in a spectacularly Mister Sinister fashion, he manages to screw himself over for the next thousand years. Sins of Sinister: Dominion #1 “∞ Deadly Sins” is the final chapter of The Sins of Sinister and a beautifully dark companion piece to Hickman’s Powers of X. With the mutants’ immortality, we can now giggle at the mustache-twirling villain Mister Sinister as he kills some of our favorite protagonists and then delight further as he soon learns that he’s made terrible mistakes that will cause himself a thousand years of misery.

Official Description:

SEVEN TRILLION DEADLY SINS! A thousand years of hell and damnation comes to end with the loudest scream in history and for the truly guilty, there is no escape. Can the future change the present, or will we just make all the same mistakes again? Either way, the present will have to live with the future’s sins.

“Nothing can stop the Juggernaut!” “Magneto was right!” “Get away from her, you &*#@#!” Sins of Sinister: Dominion #1 alludes to a bunch of our much-beloved classic quotes and it ties up the loose ends of a Sinister universe that had gone too far. I would not have thought that another writer could step up and write such an ideal companion piece to Jonathan Hickman’s genesis to the current age of Marvel’s mutants.

Creators:

Kieron Gillen/Writer
Paco Medina & Lucas Werneck/Artists
Bryan Valenza/Color Artist
VC’s Clayton Cowles/Letterer
Tom Muller w/ Jay Bowen/Design
Leinil Francis Yu & Jesus Aburtov/Cover Artists
Salvador Larroca & Matt Milla [Connecting]; Stephen Segovia & Rain Beredo/Variant Cover Artists

Really, I’ve been worried that Sins of Sinister: Dominion #1 would herald the end of the Krakoan age, which is my chief story concern in not just the X-books, but in all of comics right now. I’ve been reading X-Men comics since about 1981, and there have been very few times when all the X-books have been every one excellent for this length of time. I frankly don’t want it to end again. Mutants in Marvel books finally have teamed up and while perhaps still hated and feared, they’re no longer back on their heels and things are not only going well for the characters, but the stories are among the best that they’ve been. After the conclusion of Sins of Sinister, we are asked to follow the Quiet Council in Immortal X-Men #11, follow Storm in X-Men Red #11, and follow Nightcrawler in Before the Fall: Sons of X.

Dear Marvel, please don’t fail us by ending the Krakoan Age of Marvel mutants. I want to keep buying the stories of the characters I love.

Rating:
ComicsOnline gives Sins of Sinister: Dominion #1 5 out of 5 …thousands of years of mutant on mutant sins

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