![]() I started going to my local comic shop, got myself a pull box, and read each issue of the dueling minis multiple times. Hickman’s House of X/Powers of X got me back into comics in a big way. Who knows how much of Hickman’s grand plan had to be changed or scrapped entirely. The Way of X series, meant to spin-out of X-Men #7, didn’t debut until over a year after that issue released. The big crossover, X of Swords, was pushed back from the summer to the fall of 2020. ![]() By then, the excitement had died down.īut, worse than that, storylines, future plans, and the launch of other new series had to be delayed, reworked, or completely thrown out. Issue #2 released in March, but issue #3 didn’t come out until July. ![]() Take, for example, the Wolverine series, which debuted in February 2020. ![]() We just couldn’t wait for next week’s X-titles to be released.Īnd then everything came to a screeching halt and all momentum was lost abruptly. The first wave of Dawn of X titles had just finished their first story arcs, and the second wave of titles was launching. Hickman’s House of X/Powers of X reignited our excitement in the franchise in the summer and Fall of 2019. One example: What if the sudden spread of COVID in the spring of 2020 hadn’t shut down the distribution of comic books for two to three months? The X-Men franchise was still riding high on a huge swell of momentum. When I now look back on the two-and-a-half years of Jonathan Hickman being the “Head of X,” I can’t help but ask that familiar Marvel Comics question, “What if?” ![]()
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