#i mean the obvious other factors are 1) money 2) American comics' inertia towards status quo 3) wanting the period to be collaborative

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I'm persuaded that the probable reason for Jonathan Hickman ducking out of X-Men / never reaching the "second act" of his long-game epic (Acts 2 and 3 were supposed to be a follow-up to the "Krakoan Age", rather than a continuation of it) was that the political climate of 2020, and the reception of Krakoa among the sort of millennial lib-leftish contingent of comics fans, made it feel extra distasteful/tactless to go further down the "Krakoa might be a fundamentally compromised project" rabbit hole that the project began with. which would also explain why so much of the rest of the line, especially after Hickman's departure, had like "Krakoa is a glorified gay bar" energy

apparently he would have written a Shi'ar Imperial Guard book in that second act, which sounds pretty awesome. rip.