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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Fall of X is going back to the status quo when it was a refreshing break from the status quo


I didn't attend, but I guess that (on Saturday) at MegaCon, Marvel Comics unveiled that the mutants in this year's Fall of X see their nation of Krakoa basically get destroyed. Here's a recap of what Krakoa is in case you need one: it's an island nation raised from the Pacific Ocean by powerful mutants and a place where they can live away from people who hate them that serves as their own sovereign country.

The first time I got introduced to it was in reading Jonathan Hickman's House of X and Powers of X. This introduced the "Krakoa Era" of comics from what I understand about the storyline and how it is marketed.

 All I gotta say about this is that it'd be nice if a world-changing break to the status quo didn't eventually revert back to the status quo. Does Marvel plan on just rebuilding the school and flying their blackbird around to help people in a world that hates and fears them forever?

X-Men is finally something different, and it should remain different. But whatever. Marvel is going to do what it is going to do. It's just hard to get excited about them tearing down everything that they built up over the years. Why couldn't Krakoa just last forever?

2 comments:

  1. Almost every time the status quo changes in a comic book it has to change back to the status quo because whiny "fans" get bored of the status quo but hate anything different.

    It's like the Simpsons episode from about 25 years ago now where the ratings of Itchy & Scratchy go down so they add Poochie the Dog but everyone hates him so they kill him off and everyone is relieved but then they go back to ignoring the show.

    That's comic book "fans" in a nutshell regarding most every change.

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