I think it started off great. House of X and powers of X were legitimately amazing.
The X of swords bit was really mid but I loved the idea of Mutants taking over Mars and becoming the capital of the solar system.
It was fun to watch Mr. Sinister do his evil guy things.
I still don't care for the diamond skin lady or the other guy related to her.
Cable was fun for a bit.
X force was decent enough.
After that I am in the minority for saying this but I enjoyed the overly convoluted timeline jumping shenanigans and Hope has finally died.
The most disappointing part for me was how anticlimatic the death of Nimrod was.
The overall saga felt like it was written for children and adults, then for teenagers, and then for children.
I would rate the entire age of krakoa as a 7.5 out of 10.
9/10 for the start.
7.5/10 for the middle.
5/10 for the end.
Also, new lore of how mutants and the Phoenix force are bound together forever in the white hot room.
Here is a link to the reading order for the entire Krakoan age of x- men:
https://old.reddit.com/r/xmen/comments/1d8sg25/the_complete_singleissue_reading_order_for_the/
It feels like they have perfected the art of starting a comic but nobody is that good at continuing the series. As if we are still living in the age of mid tier comics and the medium still has a whole lot of space to evolve to always be good throughout.
I also enjoyed what they had going with the children of the vault.
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Oh hey its over ill read it when I actually get to X-men: Im chilling from DD on good old Doom Patrol good old silver age stuff.
To me this feels like a consequence of mainstream corporate comics trying to balance creator driven and editorial driven mandates. Since continuity has totally fallen off the rails the classic editor driven idea of everything being one big maintained story makes no sense anymore so weve more and more been seeing companies hand the keys to the kingdom to popular creators and just letting them do what they want which works until that creator leaves due to drama or just plain being done and now your creative mind which was making everything good is gone and editors have to scramble.
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I generally like whatever Hickman puts out.
I agree with your assessment.
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