The density was always obvious, but reading all Hickman’s post- House of X/Powers of X work in one run offers a completely different perspective. While it could be admired how casually Hickman throws in another mind-boggling notion, the impression given was that these were all that mattered to him, and the cost was the character interactions that had sustained the X-Men for years, and any sense of an ongoing plot. Hickman then wrote the core X-Men title developing those ideas, while other creators picked up on different aspects for separate titles featuring Marvel’s mutantsĪs individual issues, and even three trade paperbacks, Hickman’s vision for the X-Men stuttered because the ideas appeared prioritised above all else. That set out a blueprint of the X-Men’s future, introduced several threats, and established a community open to all mutants on the island of Krakoa, connected to the wider world via transportation gates and offering an array of new florinic-based technology. What he supplied was an innovative rebuilding of their world set over three separate eras introduced during House of X/Powers of X, mystifyingly absent from this Omnibus. In 2019 Jonathan Hickman was given free reign to re-imagine the X-Men and the world they occupied.
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