Hickman's X-Men Era is OVER [New Comic Reviews]

[@jclombardi8471]

As much as I liked Hickman's time on X-men and while I am sad to see him go, I am excited to see where this new status quo goes from here. I at least like where things are right now. I do wish he had gotten to do what he originally wanted to do though, because hearing it come from Hickman.....damn....

[@der_benson4478]

Thank you Guys so much, you saved this Inferno mess for me... ... I totally forgot that Emma TOTALLY already did what you described (her having a secret deal with Moira) with Sebastian shaws wife... I will headcanon that as foreshadowing for this. Thank you, again, I was even more upset than Sal about this, before it clicked now... Hickman, you mad genius!

[@maxwellrauchut7926]

Love how quick Tiffinay picked up on Rusty Shackleford

[@lucyfaire1980]

Fast forward 2 years from now when Marvel has completely messed up the x-men(again), Hickman magically returns with an anti-anti-mutant gun.

[@samkaranja5709]

My perspective on Moria is that by life 3, she was already done with the idea of mutants. She made the cure in that life and only decided to do "right" by mutants because Mystique and Destiny told her that they would end her existence permanently if she didn't. Moria tried everything to help mutants - she teamed up with Xavier, Magneto and Apocalypse. She tried assassinating everyone associate with the sentinel program. She lived 1000 into the future and no matter what, to her, mutants always lost so it would make sense for her to go Mutants are the problem, clearly the universe is telling me that we shouldn't exist. Personally, if I had to go through puberty 10 times, I would hate the idea of mutants altogether

[@seand7042]

42:12 when Sal and Tiff start speaking about Hickman's X-men

[@thankukorea]

Green Flame!

[@gabpintov]

I thought that at some point Hickman was supposed to write a Moira One Shot... And it never happened. I think Inferno has some ideas that he wanted to explore on that one shot, but it didnt delivered

[@comicpopreturns]

Apparently Al Ewing was tapped to do it, but passed.

[@ChristopherZubin]

How depressing that DC has become the dark universe. I thought Marvel had cornered that market a long time ago.

[@MrYTGuy1]

dude turns into bob barker at the last second lol

[@themilkman5004]

I know that Krakoa isn’t supposed to be a permanent solution but I hope they just stay with the island for a couple more years.

[@robb1914]

I really enjoyed Inferno and don’t think anything was ruined. I don’t really understand why readers didn’t like it, which I’d gladly be informed about. Moira was never going to die because it would have either caused no change or the X-men would just go back to Westchester which hasn’t been a good spot for awhile. The x-gene deleter was something we saw from the beginning through Mystiques internal dialogues. The loss of her X-gene is suppose to be the death of Moira X, she now has a new life where she can be whatever is next. It was clearly stated that it wasn’t that Moira didn’t like being a mutant, it’s that she’s such a pessimist that she doesn’t believe being a mutant is worth the pain and suffering and there is no path to victory for mutants to escape this life. She believes that her 10 lives gives her enough information to know that mutants never win. Which has been a staple of the character since HoX/PoX, to us she seems evil because we don’t see being a mutant as inherently bad. But her character does, This Moira invented a mutant cure. Twice. She’s always had this darkness in her since the reinvention.

[@milliondotz]

I really hope that the Moira monologue was all a show. A way to buy time and make things end with her going free. Because I agree, I did not like that twist, and I dont really buy it. Im really hoping that we will see her in the future and it wasnt true, I like what Tiff said about Moira from POX because i was thinking the exact same thing. It just doesnt add up. Im holding out hope for now. I am a Hickman simp. I love practically all of the work he's done, but this wasnt anything. By issue 2 I was starting to feel weary and "aw crap." I still love the HIXmen, but Inferno just wasnt it. **EDIT** Holy crap i completely forgot about the phalanx thing! Thank you for reminding me Sal! Ok that is pretty awesome to think about, and its something I had been wondering if they were going to explore more, especially with Moira. One of my big theories leading up to Inferno was that Moira and the mutants would ascend to Phalanx much like Humanity did in HOX/POX.

[@rivwilson9330]

Really enjoyed the show. Great to get your thoughts on the X books :)

[@robertohara2280]

Reminds me of Jack Kirby's New Gods. The characters and the mythos were meant to have a beginning, middle and end but DC was keen to keep the status quo so they took it away from him.

[@iandaly]

Darkhold Iron Man was awesome. Check it out!

[@jamessandlin9941]

It seems like you guys didn’t like the de-mutant gun but Forge made that gun back in the early 80s. Took Storm like 2 years to get her powers back. I didn’t think that was a cheat. I also don’t think Moira being evil was a big leap. I liked Inferno, though it did feel truncated

[@TheMastermind729]

Moira didn’t turn evil. She realized that the reason mankind kept turning to death machines is because of the real fear presented by mutant kind. I mean just imagine if mutants became a sizable population and someone like magneto became the leader… regular folks would be doomed. If Moira stops mutants from coming into being, normal people would no longer have anything to fear and everyone would be happy.

[@PharaohDom]

"over" for now. Based upon his interviews discussing it the team voted to explore this phase a bit longer before moving onto the third act. I have no doubt he'll be back when it's time to close the show. Even if he doesn't I can say with absolute certainty that he's left the franchise in the best shape it's been in since New X-Men\Astonishing. I'm looking forward to seeing what the team does with the amazingly fertile ground he helped to seed.

[@enrajbroin]

Hey, just to let you know, woman without fear is a 3 issue mini. We don't know exactly yet what they'll be doing with the main title after Devil's Reign. Love your content, keep it up.

[@debbys-abqnm4537]

7:25 - some man, grieving the murder of his son (by Zalla/Kara/who?), talks to Amazons about some military pact they have. "...and I want to make sure that you guys..." Amazons look at each other. "He thinks we're guys. Doesn't that break the treaty we made with his men ancestors years ago?" Another Amazon: "Back when we were women... and, hey, we are _still_ women and this fellow doesn't respect us, so let's drown him and ban men from our island." Amazon Women: "Works for us!" Grieving man wishes he had learned to swim...

[@wonderoushistoryofclassicf9193]

I haven't been a huge fan of his run so I'm excited to see where it goes from here

[@lifemattersnot]

Moria turning evil doesn't even make sense because we see in Issue Number 3 that there's a whole life line where the mutants do win so clearly her plan would have worked in some way. I think she was trying to do something similar to what the kree did and basically Force mutants to become homo novisma using the 5 to create Chimera super mutants.

[@TheMastermind729]

Moira didn’t turn evil. She realized that the reason mankind kept turning to death machines is because of the real fear presented by mutant kind. I mean just imagine if mutants became a sizable population and someone like magneto became the leader… regular folks would be doomed. If Moira stops mutants from coming into being, normal people would no longer have anything to fear and everyone would be happy.

[@Yungtacosss]

I feel like the ending of Inferno turned out to be a little underwhelming.

[@tom3151]

I enjoyed inferno until this issue i even liked most of it I thought that having cipher knowing was a good idea but the whole Moira stuff was just bad she's written completely differently and it just felt forced, I also don't think Emma with how she has been acting would have done any of that

[@battletoads82]

Learning all the new xmen lore felt new and important. From reading the graphs to learning krakoan. Inferno showed us that no, it wasn't important at all.

[@QuinnMiller]

I definitely don't think this is them writing out Moira, I actually think this is the planned midpoint of her arc. My theory is that she's eventually killed and revived with her powers and now when she dies it'll reset to krakoa as a sort of checkpoint.

[@ErnReich]

What’s the infinity comic with Wolverine Sal mentions Hickman is doing??

[@comicpopreturns]

It's over: www.marvel.com/articles/comics/x-men-unlimited-latitude-hits-comic-shops-in-print-this-march

[@brendanobrien8198]

I personally loved inferno but I understand the dislike for the ending. and Hickman has made Cypher one of my favorites

[@knocklesnar]

Watching this 2 years later in May 2024, the discussion about Zdarsky's successor on Daredevil is depressing considering what we ended up with. I started to drop since I started reading DD weekly during the Bendis era, and the current Ahmed run is the first run I've dropped. It's boring, uninspired and devoid of any fresh ideas or originality. As to the question of who I'd like to see take the book, it's probably the biggest no-brainer comic question I've ever answered. My dream Daredevil creative team is Tom King and Mitch Gerads. It feels like an absolute perfect fit.

[@sakura5697]

So I felt really cheated by Tom Kings run on Batman so I would like to know if this new one is worth getting invested or to wait?

[@sakura5697]

@@cicolasnage5684 it was Batman/Catwomen and I was disappointed because there was all this build up and then all of a sudden it was like someone said nope can’t happen! I do love the art and I loved I am Gotham but, it felt like diminishing returns after that.

[@Relugus]

Darkhold Omega was superb, I wish there had been more issues, as the main story only had two issues, which made it feel a bit rushed. This was the best portrayal of Wanda in a Marvel comic in decades. She was actually the Scarlet Witch here, an actual hero, and actually got to win by herself and got to take down Doom and Chthon. I loved Cian Tormey's design of Chthon, creepily beautiful yet horrifying.

[@Andrew93752]

Green flame!

[@gageboan3961]

Can someone link the Hickman interview Sal alludes to?

[@comicpopreturns]

www.xplainthexmen.com/2022/01/bonus-inferno/

[@mosesabebe3324]

IM NOT DEAD BATMAN!! Had me dying fsr

[@ChillMonger]

Lol ya replacing Spider-Man and Strange when they both have movies out is... Marvel comics

[@mementomori771]

Taylor has a exclusivity contract with dc he ain't doing daredevil anytime soon.

[@comicpopreturns]

Dude asked what I'd want, not what was feasible tomorrow.

[@ggt47]

Good. I wish they eventually leave Krakoa it's inevitable.

[@luefong1330]

I like the Krakoa era....i don't want the xmen to be in a school or mansion saving humans running from sentinels

[@The_Cold_Slither]

So is this whole X-Men thing with Moira, in essence, like Hobgoblin ending up as Ned? Because this is some bullshit.

[@vincentbrown4009]

Honestly I enjoyed Inferno. I'm not excited about Hickman leaving and putting some of his toys away. But honestly I felt this sort of way back when Secret Wars was done and hickman said he was finished with Marvel. He left Moira around, and if Storm can get her powers back from Forge's device, maybe Moira can too! A lot of steam is taken out of the X-Office but I remain optimistic

[@helderalmeida3417]

Why dont you guys puts spoilers alert or on you title. I want to read dark night of steel and you basically telling me all all scope

[@comicpopreturns]

Are you for real?

[@helderalmeida3417]

I hate destiny and mystique

[@matyG101]

Did they miss devil’s reign 2?

[@djoneforever]

Jonathan Hickman' SUCK. Thank God, its over. Now I can start reading Xmen again.

[@hjwilson11]

I mean he's still kinda show running it.

[@panduh_go_crazy-.-9957]

comics books have been so meh the last couple years like whats the point anymore

[@carltoncarroll4821]

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