There are a wide variety of Mutant powers in the Marvel multiverse. Some of them border upon the realms of magic, often leading the X-Men into mystic realms and other odd adventures. One such adventure is currently playing out in the pages of Uncanny X-Men, where four Mutant teenagers discover an ironic hell for anti-Mutant bigots under their new home.
Written by Gail Simone, with art by David Marquez, Uncanny X-Men #15 is the third part of ‘The Dark Artery’ storyline. The plot finds Deathdream, a teenage Mutant with the power to talk to the dead, guiding his teammates into a nearby cemetery. He did this because of some psychic signal he claimed was calling to him. They discovered a door into a city of the dead called Penumbra and met Lady Henrietta; a Mutant who acted as the town’s guardian.
The teens had previously discovered Lady Henrietta’s journal, which spoke of her life nearly 100 years earlier. She had been a Mutant, seeking a haven for her kind. She found it, but discovered the so-called Haven House was built on top of a realm of darkness created by one Mutant’s desire for revenge. This Mutant was called “the Voice of Darkness,” but her true name was Shuvahrak.
X-Men discover secret Hell under their home
Lady Henrietta explained that Shuvahrak created Penumbra as a dark counterpart to Haven House. Haven House was a place of a refuge in this world and the cemetery as a resting place for Mutants in the next world. To that end, Shuvahrak used Penumbra to trap the souls of those who tormented Mutants in life. All so their long-suffering victims could truly rest in peace.
Penumbra was particularly concerned with punishing those who betrayed or mistreated their Mutant family members. The realm acted as an ironic Hell, punishing bigoted souls with the same torments that they inflicted on others. Unfortunately for the young X-Men, time had not taught the damned souls to mend their wicked ways. And the young heroes soon faced a macabre mob of the angry undead!
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Uncanny X-Men #15 is now available at comic shops everywhere.
