The thing about Lucas Werneck’s cover to What If …? X-Men #1 is that Cassandra Nova looks less like evil lady Charles Xavier and more like evil lady The Watcher.
In fact, compare the cover with the inside title page immediately below. Same bald head. Same high collar. Same dark blue, purple and black nebulously cosmic background in which the looming figure looks ominously over the object or objects in the foreground.
What If…? Cassandra Nova is really a Watcher mummudrai?
Think about it. Watchers are sworn never to interfere. All Cassandra does is interfere. She loves interfering. Practically lives for it. She’s bald. She’s basically a cosmic entity that’s just oddly obsessed with Earth mutants.
Yeah, I think we’re on to something here.
Check out our exclusive preview of What If …? X-Men #1, out next week, and keep scrolling for the basic deets.
And for our review of the recent What If …? Uncanny X-Men #1, click here.
W: Ashley Allen | A: Sumit Kumar | CA: Lucas Werneck
WHAT IF…CASSANDRA NOVA KILLED PROFESSOR X? In a world where Cassandra Nova killed Charles Xavier in the womb, telepaths are hunted and experimented on – and what she’s making from them is far worse than what she’s taking. But when telepaths Jean Grey and Emma Frost escape, Cassandra Nova will stop at nothing to bring them back! Bring on Cassandra’s X-Men!
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