MAN IN THE BOX! Professor X promised there would be no prisons on Krakoa. Sabretooth was the first in the hole, but now he welcomes five more mutants to his own private hell. What laws did they break? Are they ready for what they'll find? No. No, they're not. PARENTAL ADVISORY
Victor LaValle is the author of the short story collection Slapboxing with Jesus, four novels, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, and The Changeling and two novellas, Lucretia and the Kroons and The Ballad of Black Tom. He is also the creator and writer of a comic book Victor LaValle's DESTROYER.
He has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Whiting Writers' Award, a United States Artists Ford Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Shirley Jackson Award, an American Book Award, and the key to Southeast Queens.
He was raised in Queens, New York. He now lives in Washington Heights with his wife and kids. He teaches at Columbia University.
He can be kind of hard to reach, but he still loves you.
Victor LaValle continues to write some of the most thought-provoking work on the stands right now. Disguised as an anti-hero story, LaValle is writing an insidious critique of the exploitation that has underwritten scientific progress. Dr. Barrington is a compelling villain for this plot, not exactly a mad scientist but someone with a clear-eyed view of the bodies that science feeds on - and it’s okay because they’re mutants, right?
I love this issue! The plot thickens now that Orphan-Maker (a mutant with apocalyptic powers) has fallen into the hands of the mutant-hating organization Orchis. Sabretooth’s powers are waining due to his experiences at the hands of the evil Dr. Barrington in last issue. Will the heroes get to Orphan-Maker in time to stop him from blowing up the world? Will Sabretooth find a way to describe the sinister device effecting his mutant healing factor? I’m not tellin’, but this story’s intense!
One of the better titles out right now. But the best moments were when Nekra and Oya acted as the voices of compassion and reason within this ragtag group of criminals. Some characters had few, if any, lines. The Orchis scientist lady makes no sense as a villain, given how every time she commits pen to paper, she finds a way to brag about the fact she has no sense of medical ethics.