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X men by jonathan hickman omnibus6/22/2023 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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