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Wading ashore through reeds, Apocalypse could be equally emerging from some Krakoan lagoon as from the Nile of Ancient Egypt. The ambiguity is mythopoeic—evoking a sense of his impossibly deep past.
Alas, this specific mythopoeism isn’t the subject of HOX 5.
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This is the first we’ve seen of the six-month gap after Rosenberg’s Uncanny X-Men and before HOX/POX, though it raises more questions than it answers! This scene certainly isn’t here to reveal that Doug communes with Krakoa. Their relationship and his creation of a Krakoan language in distinction from Krakoa’s own have all already been functionally established.
No, this scene is meant to be another layered puzzle piece! Though it might mostly be misdirection with just a kernel of something vastly important hidden in plain sight. Who. Knows.
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This week on Creannotators, I talk with Fabian Nicieza about his recent X-Men books X-Men Legends
On Comic Book Herald’s ‘Creannotators’ I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. Creannotators is an audio annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics!
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On a first read, R.B. Silva’s dramatic POX 4 cover doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the contents of the issue, as if this cool picture he just happened to draw was too good not to be one of the covers.
Something random about HOX/POX?! Perish the thought.
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