Once flirting with total extinction, the mutant race is now more powerful and prosperous than ever. If you've been paying any sort of attention to the X-Men franchise over the past three years, you're probably aware much has changed for mutants in the Marvel Universe. Let's break down where the franchise is at right now, why Inferno will be such a game-changer and why this may well be Hickman's X-Men swan song. If you're not up to date on all things X-Men, fear not. It promises to pick up on the biggest loose ends from House of X and Powers of X and redefine the Krakoan era all over again. This four-issue series is the latest book from the "Head of X" himself - writer Jonathan Hickman. Fans began suspecting something major had changed.But it's safe to say that if you plan on only reading one X-Men comic over the next few month, it should definitely be Inferno. Still, over the last few months it's become clear some of Marvel's plans for the line were changing Williams' Hellions has come to a premature end, with the writer instead helming an event miniseries called The Trial of Magneto that explores the Scarlet Witch's death, while Spurrier's Way of X is also coming to a close. He has assembled a crew of skilled writers to explore his new status quo, including the likes of Leah Williams, Si Spurrier, Al Ewing, Gerry Duggan, Tini Howard, and Benjamin Percy. They've gradually declined in prominence since then, overtaken by the Avengers, but under Hickman they have been reinvigorated. Hero and villain alike were welcome on Krakoa's shores.īack in the '90s, the X-Men were Marvel's superstars.
He established a creative new status quo for the mutant race, in which the mutants had gathered on the living island of Krakoa to found a new mutant nation. In 2019, superstar writer Hickman revitalized the X-Men line. Comic book writer Jonathan Hickman is leaving the X-Men books after his Inferno miniseries - for now.
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