Alright, let's do this re-read

It is honestly amazing how, even with the full context of what is going on and that this is really Charles, Larraz managed to make him SO goddamn creepy and unsettling from body language alone

He looks PLAYFUL

Charles Xavier is many things but he is not PLAYFUL

It is like watching a cat stand up and put on a tie and walk out the door

It is hilarious that over a year later we still get folks going THE MUTANTS ARE ACTING LIKE SUPERVILLAINS AND BULLYING HUMANITY when the very first issue of the era had a bunch of stand ins for various points of view from humanity to show why the mutants are justified

I love going through this with all the hilarious speculation that never went anywhere in mind

I remember folks going SOMETHING IS WRONG XAVIER MUST BE MANIPULATING THEM LOOK HOW HAPPY LOGAN IS PLAYING WITH KIDS

Like Logan doesn't canonically love kids

Another point in the favor of Krakoa

The Orchis Project wasn't something created as a response to its rise

It was made YEARS AGO just in case

Humanity literally always had an emergency doomsday plan if mutantkind got too big for its britches

Always

Hickman has always written a great Ben Grimm, and I am glad he briefly got to pop up and have a good line or two

It is weird because Hickman has a rep for loving cold, intellectual characters yet Ben is the complete opposite and one of his most consistently great