Originally Posted by
Sutekh
Yeah, there was a slow (too slow!) boiling story here, it seemed, and then, pfft, fat lot of nothing. I have no idea if some of the events (X of Swords, Hellfire Gala) took up more room than the writer expected and they never got around to it, and then suddenly it was too late, or it was just some poor planning, but it feels like there was a story here, that got set up, the first pieces moved into position, and then ended up dying in the editing room.
And that kind of sums up a lot of this Age of Krakoa. New Mutants and Excalibur have similarly seemed to fart around with some ideas, for far too long, and then kind of breeze past them as their sell-by date expired before they even got to the halfway point. It feels like nothing is plotted out in advance, even breezily, and just ideas are dropped and then next issue doesn't necessarily touch back on those dropped seeds and six months later, they are forgotten entirely, or the intended storyline suddenly is 'mature' and there's been no development in the last six months and it seems to spring out of nowhere (and been utterly ignored by the people hip deep in it, whose job it was to pay attention to it, and they're all like 'where did this come from?' and it's hard to blame the fictional characters for all the ball-dropping when it's the writers, or perhaps more specifically, the editors, who are dropping balls).
But I'm extra salty because the flashback art was not up to snuff, so it wasn't just a bunch of beautifully-illustrated flashy nonsense this month, but more garden-variety nonsense.