Yh that will be sick.
His incentive to push his story forward is that he's writing it...it's not his fault that there are impatient people who can't handle "dangling" plot threads taking more than 2 issues to resolve. The X-Men and mutantkind have an entirely new status quo, society, country, social leverage they've never had before...this is a long game story and all of those aspects deserve their own time to be explored in-depth. I don't know how these readers would have dealt with Claremont's plotting if they can't handle this.
2 issues is a bit different than 2 years. The new status quo I guess is nice if you like the new take, but nearly 2 full years in being how long it takes to get from the start to the X-Men book actually being about a team of X-Men that isn't about isolationist ethnonationalism is a bit of a drag for the rest of us.
Come on, even the 20 issues of Claremont's worst period were more eventful than this. What has Hickman done worth talking about post HoXPoX, that makes 20 issues worth buying? If this book was coming out all by itself without the other X-Books to keep people interested, everyone would have bailed.
To me the whole era is worth talking about and it is his vision. It may not be what people are use to but in my opinion this is how a line should work. One overall vision from your head writer/director and the books falling in line rather than everyone approaching the same overall problem differently. I give Hickman high respect for the trust he has to put in an era that at the end of the day no matter who wrote what will fall at his feet ultimately.
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I'm just saying that to me this era is like if they announced that Superior Spider-Man was going to last five years. I trust in the end that Hickman knows what he's doing, but it's definitely glacial getting to that payoff.
I don’t see it as a black and white thing. Yes, there’s probably an abridged version of this story that Hickman could tell in 2-3 years, but I don’t think he’s adding details into his run purely for the sake of dragging it out (besides XoS that was clearly dragged tf out). I also never viewed the other titles as a way to speed up the story but as a way to address different aspects of the story that Hickman wasn’t necessarily going to get to. Now other writers don’t have to tell their Krakoa related stories within a certain time frame because there’s room and flexibility within the line.
So yes, I think the 4-5 years is partially driven by commercial reasons but I think there are creative reasons as well. It doesn’t really frustrate me, but I’ve also been following the One Piece manga for the past 12 years and patiently waited for that story to end so I’m used to it.
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Eh. I am more interested in Banshee and Moira seeking revenge on Mystique.