Krakoa, International Law, Extradition, and Acts of War.
So if Krakoa is a sovereign state, recognized by the UN and other countries, they will be faced with these issues.
Let's say the U.S. cleans up some old security video from Norad and have proof of Kitty Pryde and Piotr Rasputin illegally inside one of the U.S. military's most secure facilities and demands they be turned over for prosecution.
X-Men teams going into foreign countries and committing acts of war...sure they are destroying a Sentinel manufacturing plant....but they are illegally entering a foreign country and destroying a facility that countries feels is vital to its defense.
Will the government of Krakoa just say "Ef off" and threaten to withhold the miracle drugs?
They wanted a recognized government...and there are consequences of that.
I don't know how you expect to get fresh, new stories without some degree of retcon. You'll get constant retreads of the same stories already told. Or you'll get what Morrison did - bastardize the characters to fit the story you want to tell. Or some other affront.
And, I think it's only fair to point out, he didn't change "all the stories". He retconned their context and changed a few, but as far as retcons go this might be one of the least world-altering ones I've ever seen.
I want comics to use the characters I love in fresh, exciting, and fun new ways. I simply acknowledge that will require some retcons and changes to accomplish it. I gladly sacrifice that.
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110% agreed! The plot problem Hickman wrote himself into was having Moira reboot at birth with the accumulated knowledge of all previous lives. He could have done some hand waving and have her return from her 616 continuity death (each life) without any retcon at all (and no -ugh- Shi'ar golem). Every single plot device to get us to HOX would still work perfectly?
So hickman should change his story so it works for you? You either like it or you don't, it's ok. But i do think it goes a bit far when we try to limit others creativity or image of things just so it works for them. The work is what it is. Everyone is amazing when retconning someone elses ideas to themselves.
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I think House/Powers of X is the greatest X-Men story of all time. Normally, I'm a pretty conservative guy, not prone to grandiose statements, but, yeah, I like it more than the Dark Phoenix saga. When I read that old warhorse today, I find myself wondering: who was Jean Grey anyways, and why the heck should I care about her?
I have a question about House of X #6. On the 6th page of the actual comic, who is that meant to be in the 3rd panel down.
If there's no retcons, Moira remains the same as she did in the last 20 years- dead and absolutely irrelevant to the franchise, and there's no story at all. Perhaps we should have continued with Rosenberg then.
Good writers shouldn't need retcons. A retcon shouldn't be the hammer Marvel employs it as. It should be a last resort to fix something glaring and and problematic. Rectonning Xorneto was a needed step to fix that horrible "herding humans into ovens" problem. Retconning Jean to not be the one who killed the D'Bari was needed to allow the character to be used again.
But in this case the retcon is "Hickman wanted to tell his story, and needed to make it happen no matter what it took". That's an extremely poor use of the tool.
Or maybe... just maybe... and hear me out because it's a crazy idea...
Hickman tells a story that doesn't require massive retcons and characters acting weird in order to work. I know it's a lot to ask of the most anticipated writer since Morrison, but somehow I think he could do it. Might just be me.