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ThePhantom Zone , the perverted extra - dimensional prison used bySuperman , gets call out byMarvel Comicsin a new comic . InSabretooth # 1 , on sale now in mark and digital , the furious mutant is take to Krakoa and put on trial for murder . When he is found guilty , Sabretooth is banishedto the Pit , a special prison for Krakoa ’s worst — and it support more than a go resemblance to Superman ’s Phantom Zone .
First appearing in 1961’sAdventure comic # 283from Robert Bernstein and George Papp , the Phantom Zone is an extra - dimensional zone , find out by Superman ’s father Jor - El , that was used as a prison for some of the world ’s wretched criminal , including General Zod . Beings exile to the Phantom Zone were capable to see and hear the outside population but were ineffectual to physically interact with it . The Kryptonians see this as a safe and humane mannequin of punishment , but recentdepictions of the Phantom Zonehave called this into question . The Zone has been depict as not the safe property it was thought to be , and its moral and ethical implications have been debated as well . In the Marvel Universe , there has been no actual parallel to the Phantom Zone — until now . The irredeemable mutation Sabretooth has been expatriate to the Pit , Krakoa ’s darkest , deepest prison house . The take is write by Victor LaValle , illustrate by Leonard Kirk , colorize by Rain Beredo and letter by Cory Petit .
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Sabretooth , exiled into the Pit , lets his mind wander , running through various fantasies where he violently kills the X - Men . In one fantasy , Cypher and Warlock come to him , offer Sabretooth mental exemption , which would grant him both knowingness and protect him from further mental use . Sabretooth asks Cypher what happens if he says no , and Cypher reply then Professor Xavier ’s original judgement stands , that Sabretooth be “ active but immobile … cognisant but unable to act upon it forever . ” Sabretooth ask for the pen to sign his release forms .
Sabretooth ’s description of the Pit makes it vocalize much like Superman ’s Phantom Zone . Sabretooth was alive and mindful of what was happening around him , but could do nothing about it , much like criminals who have been sent to the Phantom Zone . The X - man take it a whole step further by manipulating the memories of the mutation they send to the Pit — something Kryptonians did not do . Much like Jor - Eland the rest of Krypton , the ex - man view the Pit as a humane flesh of punishment , but readers see it is anything but .
People deport to both the Phantom Zone and the Pit have had hellish time there , suffering untold mental agony and distress . In Sabretooth ’s typeface , it has only hardened his heart further , cement his hatred of Krakoa and the decade - Men . DC has explored the ethical motion thatSuperman ’s Phantom Zoneraises on occasion , but Marvel right away calls it out , showing it to be the alarm prison house it truly is .
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