Honestly? I don't think Hickman ever hoped to come back and write the X-Men. I feel like if it hadn't been for the stars properly aligning that he never would have come back in the first place.
He was in charge of the FF and Avengers and I feel like while he was largely allowed to do his own thing there was still a lot of editorial oversight and maybe even some bad blood that led to him leaving the company altogether.
"We come into this world alone and we leave the same way. The time we spent in between - time spent alive, sharing, learning together... is all that makes life worth living." - Jean Grey
he is a freelancer who was burned out after writing a company's flagship with like 100 issues of content and multiple exhausting events
compromising with editorial is normal and it is very unlikely he got his balls busted while also being allowed to destroy the universe
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Correct, Hickman has never made any mystery about his love for the X-Men but also said that the first time he was at Marvel, the mutants weren't at the top of the publisher's priority and therefore it wasn't the right time for him to take over. It's amazing how things change $80B later!
In a way I understand the editorial decision not to include Jeen in Secret Wars. Imagine Doom killing her as he killed Scott, it would have been disturbing.
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I remember that Jeen was supposed to be on Secret Wars, but do we really know that it was Hickman wanting her but getting blocked by editorial and not something else?
Marvel Strike Force
She starts out as Phoenix but if she is killed she resurrects as Dark Phoenix and her abilities also change.Rounding out the X-Men team is Phoenix, the Legendary member. Her attacks are devastating, and she boosts her X-Men teammates, so keep an eye out for the Phoenix Legendary Event preview in a few weeks. You don't want to miss out!
First X-Lady
No, you already know I’ve been searching lol. Jean, Psylocke, Colossus and Cyclops are coming though.
First X-Lady
The X Office was probably still debating ways to bring her back themselves (she came back after Secret Wars.....) or Marvel didn’t want that big of a return to be used in their Big Event.......(it would have been awesome though, the two Founders battling Doom’s Forces like they didn’t miss a beat.....I want to see that in Hickman’s Run......throw in Beast, Iceman, Archangel and we get a Original Five/ X-Factor reunion)
Last edited by Decoy; 05-19-2019 at 10:09 AM.