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Marvel Publishes Jonathan Hickman's House Of X In Chronological Order

Marvel Unlimited, has put up a new version of the House Of X and Powers Of X comic from 2019, recut into chronological order.

The digital subscription side of Marvel Comics, known as Marvel Unlimited, has put up a new version of the House Of X and Powers Of X comic book series from 2019, by Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz and RB Silva, after recently recutting them for the webtoon-style service. Instead, Group Editor Jordan D White, in his final run on the X-Men books, has republished the series once more, but this time in chronological order. The two series were originally published intertwining, and full of flash-forwards and flashbacks, including into competing timelines, then wiped out by Moira Mactaggert's deaths. But now we get a recut of the whole affair, just to see if it makes sense like this. Jordan D White introduces the experiment in the following essay, and compared it to the chronological version of Memento on the DVD…

"Hello! And welcome to this interesting experiment! I refer not to the interesting experiment that Jonathan Hickman conducted on the X-Men, throwing the X-World into disarray and thrusting them into a completely new set of circumstances to better show what lie at their core, the experiment of canceling the entire X-line and replacing them with two complicatedly inter-twined miniseries that are really one story in order to kick-start years of storytelling in a completely different vein than had been explored with the franchise. No—that experiment was a huge success, kicking off the X-Renaissance of the Krakoan Age, which is now, sadly, coming to an end. No—the experiment I refer to is us taking that original intertwined miniseries, unspooling it and then putting it back together again just to poke at it and have some fun.

"When Jonathan first came into the Marvel offices and laid his plans for the X-Men, my instant reaction was, "No way—that doesn't work at all:. It was too big, it was too much of a shake-up and it felt to me like it shifted the very core of the concept! But the more I thought about it and the deeper into the concept I got, the more I came to understand and love it. It didn't change what the X-Men was about—it looked at it from a different perspective and asked us which things about that core concept were just the circumstances rather than the actual substance. The better I understood this, the more excited I got about the series and the potential it had…and I think the results have borne out that potential—I could not be prouder of the era that ensued.

"Very early in the process of planning out the full X-line that followed the HOXPOX miniseries, I was assembling a library of the entire Krakoan saga for the creators who were working on the books—a library that I continue to update to this very day, with over 550 issues worth of books. But in assembling the HOUSE OF X and POWERS OF X series for everyone, I was struck with a fancy…what would it look like if we took apart the two series and reassembled them in chronological order? I was inspired by a DVD extra on a release of the film Memento, which similarly re-edited that mind-twisting tale so it spooled out in real time, which I had enjoyed watching. So I took a little time and did it, and a PDF of the Chronological Edition of HOXPOX has been living in our X-Office archives ever since. On this, the occasion of the beginning of the end of our time on Krakoa, I offered to share the experiment with the reading public, and both Jonathan and the kind folks working on Marvel Unlimited agreed.

"Now, listen…this is NOT the recommended way to read the series! If you have not read it before, please, please go and read the actual official published editions of the book! That is both the intended and the BEST way to read it. But this one is here…just for fun. It provides a different perspective on the story for folks already familiar with it. So settle in, and prepare to kick off the story several centuries of Moira's lives ago…and enjoyl

"Senior Editor/ Krakoan Gardener Jordan D White"

And so it plays out, following the lives of Moira Mactaggert, once at a time, sometimes as she is killed and restarts straight away, other through to a thousand years in the future, where her preserved body is finally terminated. Which means jumping between the two artists, and with text pages sometimes flowing over each other. It's rather fun…

House of X/Powers of X: Chronological Edition (2024) #1
Published: January 03, 2024
Writer: Jonathan Hickman
Penciller: Pepe Larraz, R.B. Silva
Cover Artist: Pepe Larraz
Re-presenting the entire HOUSE OF X and POWERS OF X story in chronological order! Relive the X-Men's past, present and future like never before! Face the future — and fear the future — as superstar writer Jonathan Hickman (INFINITY, NEW AVENGERS, FANTASTIC FOUR) changes everything for the X-Men! In HOUSE OF X, Charles Xavier reveals his master plan for mutantkind — one that will bring mutants out of humankind's shadow and into the light once more! Meanwhile, POWERS OF X reveals mutantkind's secret history, changing the way you will look at every X-Men story before and after. But as Xavier sows the seeds of the past, the X-Men's future blossoms into trouble for all of mutantdom.

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