With Jonathan Hickman handing over command of the corner of Marvel’s X-Men comics to Kieron Gillen in 2022, perhaps the future of mutants is holding one of the biggest challenges of its nearly 60 years of publishing, involving both Mad Titan, Thanos, as the Eternals.
The series that will continue the adventures of the X-Men has ended Hell, the final chapter of the Hickman stage, will be called Immortal X-Men. The magazine will feature scripts by Kieron Gillen, who currently writes eternals, the solo title of the Eternos, heroes of the publisher newly introduced in cinema in the homonymous film.
Currently in the Eternals’ solo title, the team of beings created by the Celestials are being led by the Mad Titan, Thanos. And considering that Immortal X-Men will focus on Krakoa’s silent council, where Charles Xavier and other bigwigs in the Marvel mutant community try to find political solutions for the future of their race, it’s possible they’ll end up coming into direct conflict with other beings and heroes.
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But leaving the speculation behind, we have the official synopsis of the new Mutants title, which comments that Krakoa and the resurrection technique employed by its inhabitants will go to war with those who have always ruled life and death—an apt description for the Eternals.
The adjective of the new series, Immortal, can be interpreted as a reference to another series that dealt with life, death and immortality recently at Marvel: Immortal Hulk, which over its 50 editions has managed to show us a completely different approach to the existence of the Cosmic Giant, even after so many times Bruce Banner has been presumed dead.
With the end of Hickman’s era full of political intrigue and world-building, perhaps a classic conflict between teams of heroes is a good step to start a new phase of the X-Men. Of course, potentially involving Thanos, the situation could get far out of control, and perhaps start these new adventures with tragedies for the mutants.
However, this is all speculation. We need to wait for the release of Immortal X-Men #1, in March, to see what this new phase of the heroes of Krakoa is really about.
