The Hellions are not nice people, and those they’re faced with are even worse, which calls for some considerable violence.Ī team that can’t even tolerate each other yet are expected to work together provide the core story, and the results are brutal and unpleasant. Stephen Segovia’s storytelling approach is very much based on leading in to the next pin-up, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but any tolerance is likely to be based on how keen you are to see gruesome violence relatively explicitly depicted. Sinister is delightfully camp, although with him Wells is building on the work of others. Empath is a sociopath who can control the emotions of others, Havok is completely fractured, and Mr. Here he’s more animal than human consumed with a pack mentality and constantly looking for a way to challenge the leadership. Wild Child, for instance, previously never more than a younger, diluted Sabretooth.

Sinister’s former cloning facility in Nebraska is the first task for this misfit team, and doing so reveals Zeb Wells has some interesting ideas about some of the personalities. This seemingly contradicts the role she has in Excalibur, but that’s just not mentioned, although in passing the text pages appear to note this Psylocke isn’t Betsy Braddock.Ĭlearing out Mr.

Sinister for training and education, with Psylocke along for the ride to monitor things don’t get out of hand. The solution is that those beyond redemption are allocated to Mr. In context he’s referring to the mutants whose powers were previously used to harm, kill and intimidate. As Magneto puts it in the opening pages, “even the inconvenient ones”. Under the reorganisation of mutant society, all mutants are welcome on the living island of Krakoa.

Hellions, Vol. 1 by Zeb Wells