Note: This Column was originally written in October 2023 for the CBH newsletter. Minor edits have been made to reflect publication again in May 2024!
Close to 5 years ago, I awaited the birth of my second son, and was so caught up in House of X / Powers of X fever, that I spent downtime in the hospital reading as many Marvel Comics involving the Phalanx as I could think of. I did this because the Phalanx had recently appeared in Jonathan Hickman and R.B. Silva’s Powers of X, and I was writing out Krakin’ Krakoa episode #4, a complete history of the Phalanx. I had just started posting the series to Youtube and the CBH podcast a few weeks prior with a complete history of Professor X, and couldn’t have been having more fun. The obsessive excitement of deep-diving into every element of X-Men lore as a new instant classic spawned fans everywhere is oddly ingrained in my memories of my second-born’s first moments.
The boy is even named Douglock. [Read more…] about On the End of Krakoa X-Men Comics