And it works.Īs he did when rebooting the X-Men universe, Hickman includes text and design explanation pages introducing characters and concepts, and his X-Men is certainly conceptually dense.
Mutants ostensibly co-existing peacefully removes vast quantities of X-Men foes at a stroke, so Hickman replaces these with new threats such the Summoner, an extremely adaptable bunch of scientific minds, and a bunch of old women in armour.
That doesn’t leave much room for Wolverine and Sabretooth going head to head, and what action scenes there are come surrounded by pages of exposition, some of which, whisper it, are frankly dull. Just how far Hickman’s interests coincide with those of the average X-Men fan is something to be played out over time, but he’s fascinated with the mechanics of how the mutant community integrates with the world’s existing power structures. As the person who devised the new way of things, Hickman presumably had first pick of which of the many, many, mutants would be on his core team, and he’s chosen to concentrate on a rotating cast with Cyclops the only constant in the six stories presented here.ĭespite the reassuring presence of superhero superstar artist Leinil Francis Yu, this isn’t your normal X-Men collection, and it’s not entirely successful. The simplified version is that all mutants have bought into the idea of a mutant-exclusive community housed on the mutant island of Krakoa, instituting their own self-governing island state. This relaunched X-Men series continues from the events extrapolated in House of X/Powers of X in which Jonathan Hickman redefined the X-Men’s position in the world.
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