The age of Krakoa is over in the X-Men comics—or rather, it will be in another month.
For almost as long as they have been in the comics, the X-Men and mutantkind at large have been stalked by a world that hates and fears them—a world that manifested that hate in the metallic, unflinching face of
Deadpool & Wolverine’s new trailer yesterday didn’t really give fresh details on what the film’s going to be about, beyond the vague threat of multiversal shenanigans and Wade and Logan’s team-up.
The story of Marvel’s mutantdom is one of evolution, and with it, cycles—the rise and fall that almost always guarantees that the tale of the X-Men is one of endless battle, for a world that hates and fears them.
For as vital and enduring a character across almost every iteration of the X-Men there’s been, there’s perhaps few mutants that are commonly misunderstood as Scott Summers,
It’s time: Marvel is wiping the X-Men’s slate clean of the Krakoan era that’s been around since 2019.