It is approaching a year since our favourite heroes decided that enough was enough and they planted their flag in the ground forming their island nation of Krakoa. It has been a revolution in terms of quality and direction for the entire X-Men publishing line, which even a massive fan like me had to admit, was somewhat rudderless in 2018/19.

However, even with all these fantastic new tales and strides in character development we’re seeing come out of Hickman’s (literal) Brave New World, there is one massive character, so important to the whole X-family, that hasn’t joined our mutant heroes in pastures new: the X-Mansion.

I don’t think I had realised it until I began to read Giant-Size X-Men: Nightcrawler but I’d been missing the mansion, and in particular, the idea of the team as teachers and students, in addition to superpowered heroes and villains. It’s not just the brick and mortar, I mean, even the Avengers have had a stuffy old mansion headquarters for a long period of their history, but it was what was within the walls of that building in Westchester, New York.