From Nowhere: Utopian and Dystopian Visions of our - Chris J. Young

thinking he is dead. in the final scenes of the Dark Knight Returns, Wayne is shown hidden away in
a cave with hundreds of marginalized youth, training them to lead Gotham’s, and perhaps society’s,
new world order.
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77. Matt Fracton. Dark Avengers #7-8| Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Exodus #1|
Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia #1| Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1-3|
Dark X-Men: The Confession #1| The Uncanny X-Men #513-514| X-Men:
Legacy #226-227. Marvel Comics: Utopia series, Aug-Nov 2009.
The world, and particularly San Francisco, are wracked by civil unrest with protests from humans
and mutants alike. The Dark Avengers, the dark parallel world version of the Avengers, are sent
to San Francisco to quell the riots, but it becomes apparent that they mean to commit genocide
against the mutants by means of genetic engineering. Scott Summers, also known as Cyclops, the de
facto leader of the mutants and the X-Men, has a plan to save the mutants from humans by creating
an island off the coast of San Francisco: Utopia. The hope is that mutants will be able to coexist
with humans by separating from them. in this six-part story spanning over the Dark Avenger and
Uncanny X-men comic book series, the Utopia storyline satirizes humanity’s history of prejudice,
intolerance, and genocide into a science fiction narrative in which an emergent species of humans,
the mutants, struggle to find their place in world society. Alongside this storyline, are prequel,
parallel, epilogue, and aftermath comics which provide external points-of-view to the overarching
narrative, and contextualize the events surrounding the plot. This eclectic comic book series
provided the reader with multiple angles through which to follow the storyline as it unfolded over
its four-month, weekly to bi-weekly release in 2009.
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