Wasn't there also revealed to be thousands of mutants living in the subways across the US...the Morlocks in X Men back in 1983?

That right there pushed the mutants population to idiotic numbers.

With a global population of about 4,000,000,000, the 1 in a million count put the mutant population at close to 4,000, worldwide, with maybe a couple of thousand shaved off by how much of the population would be in the Third World. Two thousand mutants, total, in all the world, seemed like a manageable number. Especially given that many of the mutations would be quite minor. And some, of course, would be lethal!

Didn't House of M take down the number of mutants down to 198 for the whole world??  So a top 100 would be more then half of every mutant in the MU. Or did they change that since then??? Or maybe I am misremembering this??

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The population is still around 200 (most of whom live on Utopia - I mean, Asteroid M).  Mutant 0 was revealed to be Typhoid Mary and she was on Gyrich's Shadow Initiative for a time.  Hope was then born and raised in the future by Cable (who is now dead).  5 more mutants have since been discovered (called the 5 lights) and they are Hope's team (I know nothing about them, or whether they are even real mutants - I don't read her book).

Havok and Polaris are out adventuring in space.  Madrox and Layla Miller & co. are headlining the X-Factor book out of Mutant Town in NY. 

I have no idea what's happened to Storm since she married T'Challa.

Jubilee lost her powers after M-Day, used technology to gain new powers and was a new New Warrior for a while and as I understand it, is now a friggin vampire.

Wolverine is about to take a faction of his own X-Men back to Westchester and it appears as though Emma (possibly without Scott) will remain on Utopia with Magneto, Namor & the Atlantians, etc.  Beast, with apparently more sense than any of them, straight up left and works for Cap on the Secret Avengers.

This is the bizarre status of the X-population at the moment.

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The funny thing about HOM, is that it wouldn't have been necessary if Marvel hadn't allowed Morrison to increase the mutant population to millions of mutants during his New X-Men run.

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I haven't read it in a while but didn't Morrison kill those extraneous Genoshan mutants off almost immediately in his New X-Men run?  I think only Emma and Magneto survived the Sentinel attack, then about a year or so later, the Decimation decreased the ranks of known mutant population even further.  The millions, and millions, of dead Genoshans really served as nothing more than fodder/plot device.  The were essentially only rhetorical mutants.

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And that, in a nutshell, sums up a great deal of what's wrong with comics these days.

Consider, again, Neal Adams. Neal is so much more than an artist, in comics. He is a phenomenon. He is a force of nature. And yet, when he arrived on the scene, he did not come thru the door bellowing "I am Neal Adams and I am here to CHANGE things!" Change things he did, but not explosively. When he first drew Batman, he drew him completely on-model. Carmine Infantino was the defining (tho not definitive) Batman artist, and Neal drew Carmine's Batman. When he took over the X-Men, he drew them in his own style, but there was no question that he was drawing the same characters Werner Roth had drawn the month before.

Some years back, at a convention, I was shown some artwork by a brand new artist. It was virtually his first job, and what he was being called upon to do was pages that would fit between existing pages by another artist. Now, this new guy's style was nothing like the older artist's. They both used pencils and they both worked on paper, and any similarities pretty much ended there. This should not have been a problem, yet it was. Turning from the older pages to the new, I could not even recognize the characters. Literally from one page to the next, it became impossible to tell who was in the scene. This young artist has made absolutely no attempt to draw the characters as the older artist had. Not aping the older artist's style, mind you. Just pretending they were both looking at the same live models. Given that the young artists WAS heavily aping the style of a then "hot" artist, it was very much a signpost, pointing down a road I did not want to travel.

Time and again I have seen this. A new artist comes along and, not only doesn't try to drawn the characters as they have looked up to that point, but INSISTS that it is is "right" to "make his mark".

Neal Adams made his mark like nobody before or since. But first, he showed the proper respect for what had come before. And THAT'S the way you do it.

I have no idea what's happened to Storm since she married T'Challa.

Jubilee lost her powers after M-Day, used technology to gain new powers and was a new New Warrior for a while and as I understand it, is now a friggin vampire.

Wolverine is about to take a faction of his own X-Men back to Westchester and it appears as though Emma (possibly without Scott) will remain on Utopia with Magneto, Namor & the Atlantians, etc. Beast, with apparently more sense than any of them, straight up left and works for Cap on the Secret Avengers.

This is the bizarre status of the X-population at the moment.

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I'm going to sit over here in the corner and just be sad for a while.

Typhoid Mary was mutant 0? Really? What's a mutant zero?