Yes, Leah Williams and Vita Ayala were very upset with X-Fandom the next day. Yeah, Hickman got to Twitter too late, opened up his DMs and people said "Can you link to BLM?" and he tweet "I have been asked to put the link, which I do with pleasure" putting the link.
People got angry because someone had to tell him what was the link that all the famous people were putting.
It was all because
A) People looked for any excuse to get angry
B) Hickman barely used twitter and didn't know what all the famous people were doing.
It's difficult when you want to cancel someone, but they're not forthcoming with sufficient opinions to let you decide whether it's ok to cancel them or not..
Anyway, I kind of think Hickman's run is a bit of a mixed bag. Some nice character interactions and world building but questionable execution in a lot of places.
“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
Hickman's work is fine.
It's the other writers (pretty much all of them..) for Dawn of X that are highly questionable. Fallen Angels got axed for its weirdass kwannon nonsense that was basically "The book of retconning away Elizabeth's identity" as Kwannon takes all of her aesthetics as if they were always her own, Excalibur might as well have all the dialogue removed and just be a picture book because To's art is gorgeous (albeit a bit same-y) but the actual plot is like trying to play connect the dots across the galaxy, Marauder's is cringeworthy pandering.. New Mutants is a bit too back and forth with its plot arcs, X-force never lived up to the initial hype it had, and the main X-men book is just a serious of miscellaneous stories.
Hickman likes them so sadly I don't see many of them getting changed out because of him, but to be honest, none of them are all that good. Certainly not compelling (the reason Kitty kept dying was because she didn't phase out of the egg? .. really?).
Hickman's only really to blame for having such a great set-up of DoX/PoX that was so high quality that the rest just seems even more lackluster by comparison, because you can tell that Hickman's has a plan in his stories, and the others.. don't.
HiX-Man writes the "main" X-Men book.
And while he's not dictating what the other writers write word for word in their individual books he's pretty much coordinating the stories/books being written so that it all fits within a specific and narrative framework, overall.
Last edited by Devaishwarya; 11-09-2020 at 11:22 AM.
Lord Ewing *Praise His name! Uplift Him in song!* Your divine works will be remembered and glorified in worship for all eternity. Amen!
They got angry because Hickman said "Some people asked me to put the link", when he should have put it without being reminded.
Hickman was asked to put the link because he wasn't following anyone on Twitter and hadn't seen anyone tweet about it.
What Hickman was guilty of is putting the link late and admitting that he put it because other people asked him to put it, both were because
1) Hickman hardly used twitter
2) Hickman wasn't following anyone on twitter.
I mean, yes: People who were looking for any excuse to get angry with him.
And right after that they founded X-Lantis with the help of Namor to take refuge from the world.
Last edited by Glio; 11-09-2020 at 12:10 PM.
Yes, this was my criticism from the beginning. Lots of users misunderstood me, I think. Hickman is clearly a genius in planning things and he has great ideas (HoX and PoX are an obvious proof, he literally rebooted the mutants from years of bland stories), the problem is his execution in long runs story-arcs. X-Men looks like something approaching something else, but this "else" never comes. Someone mentioned Kurt founding a new religion or the Brood having a new leader, but are we really invested in things like that? I can't recall a SINGLE issue except the one with Magneto destroying Cotati. It's just completely forgettable TO ME.