![]() ![]() The long-awaited reunion between Mystique and the rebirthed Irene Adler is painfully tender. ![]() Its predictability makes the revelation feel slightly perfunctory, though there is the charm of Mister Sinister being the only one who sees through her deception. Mystique leaves the Oracle, and Inferno #2 revisits scenes from the previous issue, exposing (as many readers guessed) Mystique’s impersonation of Magneto and Xavier to acquire Destiny’s genetic material and Cerebro backup. This issue reconstructs other familiar images – Hickman’s X-Men is a work that constantly looks back at itself, interrogating its own reflection. Jerome Opeña’s cover art, featuring Emma Frost grasping Xavier’s and Magneto’s confiscated helmets like trophies, suggests that the blinders have come off.ĭestiny’s gold mask is the first thing we see in Inferno #2, as Caselli recreates Francesco Mobili’s opening page to X-Men #20. This is a book about sight and vision, with Moira, Xavier, and Magneto revealing their secret plans for Krakoa to one possible ally, even as Mystique and Destiny predict their steps before they make them. ![]() ![]() Inferno #2 Stefano Caselli (artist), David Curiel (colorist), Jonathan Hickman (writer), Tom Muller (design), VC’s Joe Sabino (letterer) Jonathan Hickman’s scorched script underlines the theme with red ink as Stefano Caselli visualizes it beautifully. Destiny cannot see Xavier and Magneto, but she sees through them. The defining image of Inferno #2 comes at its halfway point: the faces of Professor X and Magneto reflected in the hollow gold eyes of Destiny’s mask. ![]()
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