This will help in terms of context.
This will help in terms of context.
Let the flames destroy all but that which is pure and true!
I think they are either having a hard time telling interesting stories about celebrating or people got bored of reading them.
We are going on 2 years of this era and if they are going to shake it up, why wait until no one cares anymore? Based on the books that are continuing or starting, I see a lot of stuff that is moving away from Krakoa. I would not be surprised if the two untitled books are going to coincide with a big change.
I still think it is too early to move away from Krakoa, specially that they are still using Krakoa to try to sell books. But it seems obvious that hickman is doing his thing separate from others
Sword, way of X should all had come faster. Sometimes I even think way of X wasnt needed if the flagship had dealt with those obvious problems
It has nothing to do with Krakoa status and isn't edited by X-men editors. The appeal of the book is having top tier artist doing interiors and her new take on Marvel properties
Hickman was busy doing laundry work while we thought crucible was going to be his story. About majority of issues were all about other books therefore it was quite natural that ship is will be going down anyway. Not even the hype that Hickman has brought could save him
It's way too soon to move away from Krakoa there are still to many plot threads as well as the covid 19 that pushed many of the books back.
Sales =/= quality of books
Just interest in the books and based on the complaints of people thinking the mutants are supremist (a silly argument) that has more of a pull than if the story being told is good
Do we know what Graphic Novel sales are like however, especially for the DOX books.
The problem with the era isn't that there are too many books, just read the ones you want to read instead of reading them all, but there are too many good books which I like.
It's not an even/or, this is probably the most diverse selection of books we've gotten in years and will be the most diverse we'll probably ever get.
Another nugget of information to put these charts in context: remember that the Dawn of X books are collected twice (unlike most books) within a short period of time: with the single series trades plus the "anthology" Dawn of X TPB. That's ignoring all possible future hardcover, omnibus volumes etc. Just having 2 different trade collections will have an impact on the floppies sales.
I would be curious if that plays a part, but I think the individual trades all come out around the same 2 month later period as other Marvel titles, and the Dawn of X trade is nuts, someone reading that has only just gotten "Marauders (2019) #11-12 / X-Factor (2020) #3 / Wolverine (2020) #5 / New Mutants (2019) #12 / Giant-Size X-Men: Fantomex (2020)" if they picked up the most recent volume this week.
Most of trades on X-men books sells poorly, best selling are Wolverine and x-men and none of them that impressive
I saw one of these daw of X and the collection seems very random/chaotic. Like Fantomex has nothing to do with any of these other stories
i really dont think they made a good impression on most readers
Last edited by Rang10; 04-22-2021 at 12:22 PM.
X-Men is a plotless book. That's inexcusable in the flagship.
Too soon? Even with Covid this status quo has lasted too long - they didn't need to abandon Krakoa but they should've branched out sooner.
I agree about sales not correlating to quality.
I don't think Krakoa having a tinge of Mutant Supremacy is a silly argument just because you disagree with it.
Does it need doing?
Yes.
Then it will be done.