Marvel Teases an Finish to the Krakoan Age with the Rise of the Powers of X
Forward of subsequent month’s New York Comedian Con, Marvel has launched a teaser for the decision of the present X-Men crossover occasion, The Fall of X, however the tease is not precisely a promising one for Marvel’s mutants, as a result of it means that the Fall of X is definitely the autumn of the Home of X, calling again to Jonathan Hickman’s epic revamp of the X-Males that occurred in 2019, and that January 2024 will start the Rise of the Powers of X, additionally a Hickman callback.
The occasion (it’s unclear if this will likely be a pair of miniseries or not) will likely be by Gerry Duggan and Kieron Gillen, the present writers of X-Males and Immortal X-Males, respectively, and drawn by Lucas Werneck (artist on Immortal X-Males) and R.B. Silva (coming off of Captain America: Image of Reality, however famously the unique artist on the primary Powers of X miniseries by Hickman again in 2019).
What’s the Fall of X?
The Fall of X started on this 12 months’s Hellfire Gala. The anti-mutant group, Orchis, had been plotting behind the scenes in opposition to the X-Males for a while, and it lastly selected this 12 months’s celebration of mutants, The Hellfire Gala, to strike. Throughout the announcement of a brand-new staff of X-Males, Nimrod, a strong Sentinel agent of Orchis, landed in the course of the celebration, killing many of the new X-Males staff. A full Orchis drive arrived, with Moira MacTaggert, former buddy of the X-Males, fatally wounding Jean Gray. Orchis then revealed that every one the drugs that the X-Males had been giving the world had been secretly tainted by Orchis, and it might be used to kill any human who has used the drugs.
With the specter of tens of millions of people dying on the hand of a mutant medication, Charles Xavier was pressured to ship the 200,000 mutants on the island house of the X-Males, Krakoa, by teleportation portals, nominally to the X-Males house on Arakko (previously generally known as Mars), however not one of the mutants arrived at Arakko (because it seems, they have been diverted throughout the universe). Xavier believes he simply killed tons of of hundreds of mutants. A handful of X-Males fought off Xavier’s telepathic instructions, and escaped on their very own. These X-Males at the moment are preventing an underground battle in opposition to the forces of Orchis, who’re attempting to show the entire world in opposition to mutantkind.
What’s the significance of the Home of X and Powers of X?
Whereas dubbed “The Fall of X” for the previous couple of months, this new teaser reveals that it’s actually particularly The Fall of the Home of X. The Home of X is the time period used to explain this present age of mutant prosperity, with them dwelling collectively on the highly effective mutant nation of Krakoa. On the identical time that Jonathan Hickman launched The Home of X in 2019, he additionally revealed The Powers of X, a narrative set in a darkish future the place mutants and people have been at warfare for years.
From the appears to be like of this teaser, it seems that the tip of the Fall of X is main immediately into organising the darkish future that Hickman teased again in 2019.
Extra particulars, although, will likely be forthcoming at NYCC, together with maybe who or what the New X-Males will likely be, one thing that Marvel teased a couple of months again.
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