Originally Posted by
RachelGrey
Perfect answer! As long as it makes a tiny bit of sense that's ok with me! I like the idea of Krakoa being asleep for a long time and the nuclear testing woke it up!
Also, sure that Krakoa got launched into space, but if Krakoa can grow and expand from a seed it's possible that the island grew back on the same spot because part of the root system was still intact at that location!
Krakoa split off into another offspring and lived at the X-mansion on the school grounds until Quentin guided it into the Atlantic Ocean!
Our knowledge of past events changes as new information comes to light that changes our perception of how the past played out!
A very simple example of this is the theories of Earth! We started with the flat Earth theory, then the circular but geocentric theory with the universe rotating around the Earth, then finally the heliocentric theory of the Earth rotating around the sun!
Even the heliocentric theory was modified as people realized the planets and moons did not have strictly circular orbits but rather somewhat oval orbits which impacted why they did not fall into exact circular positions when they are observed over time!
Then you have the ideas of solar system, galaxy, galaxies, black holes, white holes, quantum mechanics, age of the universe!
All of this is built on years and years of expanding knowledge! When Charles, Erik, and Sebastian all met near the same time they thought they were the only mutants and were astonished to meet others! Charles and Sebastian didn't agree on anything so they never worked together, Charles and Erik were able to find some common ground and work together to research mutation! At first they though mutants originated from recent time because of atomic testing, although that did not 100% explain Magneto who predated the atomic tests! Then they meet Wolverine, Mystique, and Sabretooth who are all older than Erik, and reveal mutants have been around for a while! Then Exodus who is older than Wolverine, then the Externals who are older than Exodus! Then you have Selene and Apocalypse revealing that mutants have been around for 1000s of years! With Selene being from the 1st age of mutants, and Apocalypse from the 2nd age of mutants!
Now Apocalypse reveals that Krakoa existed in his time and he fought a massive war against a demon invasion and that he was forced to put Arakko and his original Horseman in the breech to stop the invasion of Earth!
I guess it really depends if you feel comics should be written in stone and never change! In that case you are looking for comics like Archie, Calvin & Hobbes, or South Park where no one ever changes or grows and they just keep repeating the same adventures over and over and over!
Every comic book with a superhero ever created has gone through changes and retcons and if you haven't realized that yet, I don't understand what you are reading! Claremont changed tons of stuff on his run and created his own vision! Morrison created his own vision, Whedon his vision, and so on and on! Even Liefeld created his own awful vision of everyone with no feet and pouches everywhere and looking like steroid bodybuilders and anorexic models!