I don't know what I was expecting from a Sabertooth miniseries, but a stark takedown of the prison industrial complex and a total refutation of the very idea of incarceration was not it.

And it's really well done too. It doesn't feel preachy, there's great story elements and comics excitement throughout. But also real and important social commentary. Which is the whole point of the Mutant Metaphor(tm).

I'm not saying any of what was said was new information. Prison abolition activists especially in the Black community have been saying this shit for years (LaValle even quotes some of the greats like Frederick Douglass at the beginning of the issues). But it is exciting and important seeing this material in a Big 2 Krakoan era X-book, hopefully teaching more moderate readers a thing or two about our world while they read about Krakoan justice. ( )