2023: The Year Of Fucking Around
2024: The Year Of Finding Out
When Jonathan, RB, Pepe and Marte arrived they set the table for a war. Mutants set aside their differences and chose peace.
It caused their world to promptly spin off its axis.
Their enemies feared mutant success.
Orchis rose to oppose a united mutantdom. The aggressor set the tone for the engagement. Krakoa’s first law was “Murder No Man”…Orchis was lawless.
But they planned well, and they deserved their hard fought wins.
They even took a shot at the Queen.
As 2023 this merger of humanity and artificial intelligence is poised to have it all.
And yet the X-Men resist. 🔺
Dr. Lorna Dane was the first of three characters to fall into my orbit that I neither voted for, nor initially wanted, but became very grateful for in the end.
When I last wrote Polaris she’d left the X-Men and was suffering from the pursuit of The Black Dog, then came the death of her father, Magneto.
And now, well she’s straight out of Knowhere.
She was the great gift of collaboration. Being offered a path that you’d have never walked down left to your own devices.
Oh, the places you’ll go.
We’re executing on story from 2018 at the moment, and some things change. Some don’t. Stories have life, and they grow and change in the telling. Sometimes the bones of a story survive every bruise along the way. The cover below is one of those bends in the river that is and always has been in this ongoing story.
Gaze upon what masters Pepe Larraz & Marte Gracia can do with a one sentence prompt:
Get your orders in for FALL OF THE HOUSE OF X & RISE OF THE POWERS OF X. The latter is pronounced ten.
Happy publication day to FEEDING DANGEROUSLY from José Andrés, Krakoa’s own Steve Orlando and illustrator Alberto Ponticelli.
$3 from every retail book sale will be donated to the World Central Kitchen, but that number jumps to $5 from every purchase made specifically on feedingdangerously.com
I’ve just received my copy, and I can’t wait to read this gorgeous book. Congrats to all.
This is the only Substack that loves you.
GD
That Lorna cover gave me CHILLS.
Oh man, I’ve been enjoying the swagger you’ve given your X-Men, Gerry. Not only going to miss it but I tend to drop out just before an end because I don’t want it to be over.