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Scott: I appreciate the good faith effort of your coming here.

Jamie: Well, you invited us. Seemed the thing to do.

Scott: I assume you know why you were invited.

Jamie: As detectives go, I’m no Sherlock Holmes, but even I can figure it out: you want us to move here to floating evil island.

Scott: It’s called “Utopia” now.

Jamie: Is it.

Scott: You sound skeptical.

Jamie: There’s a part of Flushing, Queens that’s called Utopia. Still looks like Flushing to me.Whatever happened to the dream of mutants living with humankind in peace?

Scott: That was before mutants became an endangered species. The rest of us can’t afford to sit back and wait to be picked off.

Jamie: People are just confused about mutants.

Scott: That’s their problem, not ours.

Jamie: It’s not like we make it easy for them! Half the time “humanity” can’t tell the good mutants from the bad mutants, and they lump us all together!

Scott: That’s absurd—

Emma: Scott…I see we have new recruits.

Magneto: Welcome to our brotherhood.

Jamie: …you got anything to drink around here?

Scott: Absolutely.

Jamie: Thank god.

Nation X: X-Factor #1 by Peter David, art by Valentine De Landro