Should mutants have more of a presence outside the X-Books?

[Ferro]

Krakoa is a character first and a land second. So even if Krakoa as a nation dissolves, the character and person of Krakoa, the Living Island, will continue and thrive for future writers to play around with. So I don't think it will end up quite like Genosha.

Hickman has added a lot of mythos to Krakoa. Krakoa was once a vast landmass that was divided into Krakoa and Arrako, and those two islands are slowly being rejoined. So obviously there's going to be stuff to play around there.

So there's a lot of balls in the air juggling in his run right now. Where does that go, who knows?

To X-Men fans, while I share your defensiveness of Hickman's run and Krakoa nationhood, you must not burden Hickman and his writers with the unfair expectation of giving a happy ending. The story hasn't been fully told yet and obviously Hickman has some endgame in mind. You shouldn't burden Hickman and his crew with the false dichotomy that either they are on your side and so the skeptics against us are wrong and so on and so forth.

My feeling is that by the end of this run, Hickman will find a way to resolve some of the conflicts and stories he's introduced, whether that leads to Krakoa being dissolved, the X-Men going back to the Mansion, the Krakoans splintering into factions again...who knows. Based on sales and editorial, and other factors, it could also lead to Krakoa continuing as a status-quo post-Hickman for future writers to play with or not.

It's only been a year, less than a year on account of the pandemic delaying some comics from the scheduled release date. It's still too early to call it.

Hickman is ultimately optimistic...but it's an optimism that earns itself. FF and Avengers started with bleak ideas when he wrote it but eventually ended on a note of hope and triumph ("Everything lives"). So by the end of the run you will have X-Men in a decent place and it will be up to other writers to step up.

for me they can have a team book on the mansion playing superhero and whatever boring stories will be created from that, but the mansion just doesnt work for every other satelite tittle, krakoa does its a very flexible scene that allows various titles to florish with their distinct premisses while remaining connected.
It's also visually distinct and has a very ressonant aestethic and iconigraphy.
Sure have a 90's revival in the mansion fighting sentinels for ther 2390-19308591-30931 time, but have everyone else on the island.