Issues #18 and #19 concern themselves, as per usual, with an eventual threat to the mutants on Krakoa: the Children of the Vault. What?” high-concept heavy-lifting the book excels at. 3 is a perfect distillation of the sorts of “Um. The longest story - stretched over two whole issues - in Vol. Each dangling thread only makes the reader eager for the future. This heady (and sometimes disorienting) barrage is never undercut by not seeing any particular concern resolved. This is what X-Men stories will be, now, the book seems to be saying. Where books like Marauders and Excalibur are showcasing incredible, long-form narratives with a concrete cast and narrative through-line, X-Men wants to be the issue-by-issue equivalent of an establishing montage. Ever the workhorse, Hickman is churning out the nuclei for story after story, presenting not-quite self-contained snapshots of what it means to be a mutant in this brave new world. Somehow, this isn’t the case of too-much, too-fast instead, this is essentially the central purpose of the book. One joy of Krakoa is Jean’s fashion-hopping.
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