Not too pressed on it but I guess.
Technically on the second pic it was Adam Warlock (Cap's left) who was nominally in charge. But yeah, the now-hardwired opinion on flatscans in this board. spoilers:end of spoilers
They can be genocided and mutantkind can only benefit, etc.
Genkai nante nai (No limits), Zettai nante nai (No absolutes)
Thank GOD for X'97. Cautious about "From the Ashes". Please no more Blue vs. Orange.
“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
Funnily enough, the only development and relevance Storm has currently, is within the Coates penned Black Panther solo where she's been elevated to a level of "godhood" and status that's yet to be recognised in her own family of books.
If as you say, "she's still not the major force she should be in the X-books," you've already settled for less for not holding X-writers accountable for her current status within the X-verse.
Many seem to be unable to just shake that feeling that there's something rotten under the rosy surface, citing the mutant being thrown into the pit regardless of the supposed good intention behind it, and just the general vibe of it all. Admittedly, that amounts more to suspicion rather than solid evidence, so I suppose despite the positive interactions so far, that anything's still possible.
"A happy ending? So unlikely. We're not having a moment here.
Wrong city, wrong people, all huddling in fear.
No one escapes the slaughterhouse, and that's just where you're at.
(You could've asked Rebecca but then Adam stomped her flat.)
You think you're special cuz you're scrappy? You're deluded, time to go.
Lucy's living on the moon but you're another dead psycho."
Of course there is, Krakoa isn't the end of X-Men comics so it ultimately cannot succeeded. There are obvious flaws in Krakoa and the X-Men, while certainly not villainous, are not perfect. When HoX and Pox started coming out speculation ran rampant trying to account for everything we were seeing and much of it was weird, was alarming and there were legitimate concerns based off the limited amount of information we had. Were the current X-Men pod people who replaced the real ones? Is that really Xavier? Is he compromised with something sinister? Is he mind controlling the X-Men? However by the end of the two series and especially in the actual series that have come out most of those questions have been answered, and most of the speculation was wrong. We learned the HoX/Pox weren't about the X-Men but about the mutants in general. Most of the criticism on this topic in this thread largely seem to derive from assumptions made early in HoX/PoX and that haven't been changed as new information was revealed.
Part of this is due to Hickmans style and writing quirks. He didn't write a linear story, chronologically or thematically. His stated goal was to release new information as HoX/PoX came out that changed the meaning of things in previous issues. There was also a very creepy vibe in the early issues, most of that has been explained by now though.
We've also got interviews with Hickman outlining his long term goals for the franchise. He's not trying to destroy the X-Men but he does want to change the status quo. Restoring... well pretty much everything and everyone, and breaking the destructive impulses of Marvel writers and editorial who have been stuck in an endless cycle of death-resurrection and genocide.
I've got no problem with wanting to see the mutants interact in the wider MU, I just have to chime in when the arguments get as flawed as they have been. Condemning the Krakoan status for missing something (that actually is present) when they are only on the second issues into the run is going way beyond just not liking it.
Lmao that's exactly what Hickman was talking about. PTSD from terrible past stories of extinction after extinction and everything going to hell has people convinced that nothing can work.
Just goes to show that the last decade of X-Men comics were for the most part terrible.