HOUSE OF X - How Jonathan Hickman Saved the X-Men

In this video, Owen explains the history of House of X/Powers of X, and how Jonathan Hickman revitalised the X-Men and transformed them for a new generation.

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▶ Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
3:38 - The Lost Decade
7:20 - A Need to Evolve (feat. Comic Book Herald)
11:54 - The House That Hickman Built
16:05 - You Have New Gods Now
21:10 - The Lives of Moira X
28:10 - The Dawn of X
35:23 - Outro

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The X-Men are a group created by Professor Charles Xavier as a response to the emergence of naturally occurring superhumans known as mutants among the baseline human society. Dedicated to promoting a dream of peaceful coexistence between mutants and humans, Xavier trained his X-Men in the use of their mutant powers at the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, forging them into defenders of a world that hates and fears them. Over the years, the heroes of mutantkind found their mission constantly endangered by both reactionary humans and fanatic mutants. Currently, the X-Men have rebranded themselves as a super hero team who act for the people of Krakoa.

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[OwenLikesComics]

Hey everyone! Thanks for watching, this was a big video that took literal months to make but I hope you enjoyed it. I have a few credits and acknowledgements that I wanted to post here.

[Bakedpotatomanforever]

“While you slept, the world changed.” Absolutely love this series!!

[richadoruisuthegod]

Cyclops was never a villain despite how much marvel tried to portray him as mutant hitler

[kbuttstadt]

Wow. I cant believe "no more mutants" was spoken by Wanda almost 20yrs ago IRL.

[BlaqMagiq]

I think its understated just how vital pepe larraz's art is to the revitalization as well. I honestly cant see any other artist bringing hickman's story to life the way he did

[blackshard]

Hickman did the impossible. He not only somehow elevated X-Men from a title I had long since stopped caring about, but he's by far the only writer to come anywhere remotely close to rivaling Claremont. Personally, it's my favorite era of the X-Men. And as someone who was reading way back in the 80's, that's kinda wild.

[justinriley]

I gotta say, reading these 12 issues was the most fun I've ever had following comics. It is an excellent story and a much needed revival that got everyone to talk about the X-Men again.

[David-iosg]

I’m just still so heartbroken that we will never get to see how this story would have ended.

[AngelPerez-tunk]

Mr. Hickman truly is the master of revitilization.

His X-Men run reignited my own love for the X-Men full force. It was always there but it diluted until his run.

[matt]

I’ve never really read the X-Men and I sort of struggled to get into the Hickman run, but knowing what he’s done with the FF, it would’ve been cool to see his full story

[himynameisnickolas]

Hoxpox is a masterpiece. Not only did it revitalize the X-Men, it was the first time in literal decades that a comic book had been the equivalent of “event television” where everywhere you went every comic book reader was talking about about the last issue and speculating on what was happening and where it was going. Even non-comic readers were aware that something huge was happening to the X-Men.

[bojacknorseman]

Something that you and Dave only briefly mention is the desire to have The Inhumans supplant the X-Men, and the reason for this not just being Fox/Disney, but Ike Perlmutter in particular. Perlmutter hated that they were printing comics as "free advertising" for competiting studios films, and so had Fantastic Four shut down. X-Men sold too well to shelve entirely, but it was substantially paired back, with the Inhumans being positioned to greater prominence.

But things really go off the rails around 2015/2016. That's when Fiege demands independence from Perlmutter, and Marvel Studios becomes seperate from Marvel Entertainment. It's then when Perlmutter adopts his classic vindictive streak and attempts to more radically marginalize the mutants with stuff like IvX. Unfortunately for Perlmutter but lucky for us, the corporate winds once again shifted, allowing the X-Men to regain greater prominence (the catastrophic Inhumans tv show also helped).

[SLouiss]

I’m glad the X-Men are back in the spotlight. It seems like Disney wanted to make the Inhumans the new X-Men for a few years

[mattskov]

The huge glaring problem with the storyline was the elimination of the X-men’s protagonists. When all of the mutants are on the same team, who do they fight? Silly enemies like ecoterrorist grandmas.

[koushikraja]

Knowing Hickman and how he fused the avengers into a godlike operatic epic which ended as a tragedy, the x men run with him would have ended in a tragedy which would have sorts resulted in providing a way for them to return to the previous status quo with the ramifications of the ending still being felt.
But man, the krakoa era is what you would call a fresh creative shakeup and made sure such shakeup affected their entire universe.

[nickhishmeh]

Hickman is one of the great writers to emerge in the late 00's with his original indie work. He could be a great sci fi novelist if he wanted to. The way he can map out a storyline and explore concepts while developing new angles on age old characters is superb. His Fantastic Four run is the only time i actually liked FF.

[sirslurmusic]

This series was so good that I was reading all 10 dawn of X books for a while. Sadly, real life got in the way and I haven't had a chance to read a comic run in about 3 years. But I fully intend to dive back into the Krokoa/Arrako era as soon as I can! I heard through the grapevine the X-Men freaking terraformed Mars and I'm so excited to find out how and why and where it all leads!

[AkiDave]

I was super excited for this video because I’ve been looking for someone to explain Hickman’s X-men and I’m glad it was you. Great video as usual Owen!! 💙

[thenuetrix]

I've always loved the X-Men. They are the only American comics I actually follow these days

[AncientAesthetic]

Impressed with X-men '97 as a non-fan, I followed the YouTube X-men rabbit hole to find your video. Now I'm converted to be an X-men fan.