With that out of the way, you could only wonder what his run on the line's flagship title would be like, and.it's no HoX/PoX, let me tell you. House and Powers of X was bold relaunch of the X-Men line that came bearing all of the crazy ideas that you'd expect from Jonathan Hickman.
I'll try writing the text of the review and see where that gets me.
I'm a little conflicted about how to rate this one. The quality of the work put out by the other writers and the clear roadblocks that Hickman ran into (storm was supposed to get pregnant, Franklin was supposed to be a mutant, etc) when he should have been given carte blanche almost certainly played a part in him leaving. In short, the line was a disappointment after the incredible height of Hox/Pox. That may explain some of the unresolved threads in these issues but not the other part. Maybe he was planting seeds for himself for later, and maybe his early exit was what fucked everything up.
Many of these issues feel like Hickman is tossing up layups for some other writer who never takes the ball. Sure, the close collaboration they had let them do fun stuff with the timeline, but it really feels like there were some major gaps in story potential and a real lack of focus. Head of X or not, I cannot imagine Hickman had taken on all the roles of an editor, and everything I have read from him and others make it sound like he was primarily supportive and hands off.Įither way, my main problem is that the line felt far too unfocused. My biggest complaint is more about the whole line, which falls in part on Hickman as the “Head of X” and a bit on some of the other writers in the line (many of whom just didn’t bring their A game or enough imagination) but probably the bulk of the blame belongs to the editors at Marvel. It didn’t strike the balance of tone that Larry’s and Silva did in Hox Pox. There was a general sense of alienation to Hickman’s writing, which led many to have “are the xmen the bad guys now” takes, and I don’t think Yu’s stiff figures and sometimes creepy faces really helped that. The art is great for the most part, though I do think Linel Francis Yu maybe wasn’t the best fit. Hickman’s Xmen series was always interesting, and some of these issues are the best of the Dawn of X line. The omnibus collects xmen and giant size xmen, but it’s missing the x of swords tie in issues.
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