X-Men #1 pg 9 (Mayer inks, MacKay story) - Beast tour guide Sentinel factory turned home

X-Men #1 page!!! “From the Ashes”!!! Beast plays tour guide to the local sheriff for their new home, a reformed Sentinel factory.

New era of X-Men directly after the Krakoan era, which I really enjoyed, comes a page from the premiere issue, FIRE-BAPTIZED SPECIES.

This is the first piece of art I posted from this new era. I am enjoying it and trying to be open for the X-perience that it brings, not fully sold yet, but really wanted to get a piece of art from X-Men 2024 and this page fits the mold, so to speak. It’s my first real Sentinel art and adding another X-Men #1 page from a new volume works so great for this collection, thank you Grant Riddle.

This page features a great half splash reveal, that the new home to the main X-Men team is actually the towns Sentinel assembly factory and that the X-Men will be taking residence there (the dialogue is great). Beast confronts the sheriff kindly reminding her that this is a place that the town “manufactured” killing machines to mutantkind, and that the hard times the town is feeling now that their factory jobs are gone, after the X-Men saved them is a bit disingenuous.

It’s a great reveal and quiet moment for seeing these towering machines of destruction (Sentinels, first appeared X-Men #14, 1965; nearly 60 years earlier), now decommissioned and the home for the very things they were created to destroy. These moments in the X books are so well done and the long history with these deadly machines comes full circle in this new chapter for the X-Men. Their once comfortable kingdom in Krakoa is gone and they are now reminded daily of their new place in a world that still hates and fears them. But they continue to fight on and persevere.