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Moira is quite big in this story because the end of the X-Men Krakoan era had to come back to her. It had to come back to Xavier as well. Because we basically started with those two people on a bench. For all the big ideas Jonathan Hickman started, it was a very powerful, personal story about these people trapped and wanting to be free. That's the thing that Moira gave everyone; a chance to try things a different way. Of course, in the end, Moira is not reliable or good, but she had a point. -- Kieron Gillen

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Fall of the House of X is Gerry doing the enormous, explosive, big-budget, present-day fight against Orchis. I'm doing the multiple timelines, Moira collapsing real space, "What is the nature of the future anyway and can we fight it?" plot. Both metaphorically and physically, because it's an X-Men comic and the metaphor is also physical, and a metaphor you can punch in the face is how one does superhero comics. -- Kieron Gillen

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NYCC is coming up and that means Marvel's Next Big Thing panel. And they are already teasing the books that the panel will talk about.

So let's go through them.

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"Trust in the rollercoaster. It has bars." - Gerry Duggan

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thanekos

Symbol of Truth #13's conflict is between two on the protagonist side - Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson, previously caught in an explosion in Dimension Z.

The smoke of the blast'd cleared - Sharon Carter and Misty Knight were down, and Steve was pushing on, his Sentinel of Liberty #12 mindset even more so.

Sam tried to get him to " take cover and regroup " - and got a blow he had to raise his shield against.

( He was shocked. )

Current Music: Climb! Climb! - Akihiko Mori

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Cold War's the crossover between the two Cap books that began with an Alpha issue in April, where Bucky Barnes and the White Wolf'd taken control of Arnim Zola's Dimension Z.

They'd kidnapped Steve Rogers' adoptive son Ian to do so - Ian'd been fathered by Zola, and so had the material they needed in him.

Steve, Sam Wilson (who'd worked with Ian both in Symbol of Truth and 2014's All-New Captain America), Sharon Carter, and Misty Knight'd gone to Alaska to save him - where they'd been met by inhabitants of Dimension Z, coming out of portals in the liveries of the Revolution of the Century Game and the White Wolf.

Symbol of Truth #12 was largely action against those monsters - and soldiers of the Century Game's Outer Circle, who'd been wargaming amongst themselves when these other factions showed up.

( That action was unremarkably engaging. )

Current Music: When Do I Get To Sing " My Way "? - Sparks

thanekos

In issue #10, Roger Aubrey'd freed himself (and spearheaded the freeing of his fellow Invaders) from the clutches of the Mental Organism Designed Only for Control.

MODOC's master, the Power of the Century Game, had responded by flipping his Starpoint from " Control " to " Killing " - and MODOK had in turn killed Roger.

The resolution of the latest move in the world-spanning Century Game was now the Power and MODOK versus the Invaders - Steve Rogers going for the game player, and his comrades going for the chief pawn - in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

( The Power caught Steve's shield, thrown at him. )

Current Music: tekka - Sweet Trip

thanekos

Issue #9'd ended on the entrance of Joaquín Torres, the Falcon - Sam Wilson's partner, poisoned with something by an enemy, something that'd emphasized the " vampire " in his human/bird/vampire physiology.

Joaquín, tortured by his transformation and embittered by Sam evidently abandoning him to that agony, faced Sam and the reintroduced Ian Rogers in Mohannda. Sam and Ian, who'd been battling the forces of the White Wolf, now faced the Falcon.

( Captain America and the Nomad faced Joaquín. )

Current Music: Your Call's Very Important To Us. Please Hold. - Sparks

thanekos

It's brought back the character introduced in the Marvel NOW! Captain America relaunch back in 2012, the one last seen in the pre-Secret Wars All-New Captain America (and the Secret Wars mini Hail Hydra).

The first arc of Symbol of Truth'd had Sam working with Joaquín Torres, the Falcon introduced in the post-Secret Wars Captain America: Sam Wilson. The two of them'd grappled with a wide-spanning scheme, foiled a bioterrorist plot being set up in Wakanda - and dealt with the consequences of that.

The second arc, starting in issue #6, followed on the heels of that - it had Sam and Joaquín in New York, where the prime minister of Mohannda (geographical neighbor of Wakanda, introduced in the 90s Marvel UK series Black Axe) was asking for aid at the United Nations in her plans of reform.

Afterwards, Sam was walking the prime minister out, checking in with Joaquín: " Falcon. Sitrep. "

" All friendlies as far as I can see. Crowd's been checked too. "

( Sam was uneasy. )

Current Music: Bridge Builder - Susumu Hirasawa

thanekos

In issue #4, he'd fought Crossbones, who'd been carrying out the White Wolf's plan to commit bioterrorism in Wakanda through unwitting dupes.

Sam'd defeated the skull-masked mercenary, learned about the White Wolf having secretly laced emigrants from America with a nasty virus triggered by the presence of vibranium - and then been confronted by the Black Panther, T'Challa.

In issue #3, the Wakandan government'd taken the stance that any crime geographically tied to Wakanda fell solely in that country's jurisdiction - and that any non-Wakandan party investigating the Wakandan end of the crime in question, on Wakandan soil, would be considered as committing an incursion.

So, Sam and T'Challa fought.

( Sam menaced T'Challa with birds. )

Current Music: Dimple - Scott Walker

thanekos

Issue #3'd had him amongst those Americans emigrating to that country, going in plainclothes guise where Captain America and his symbol of a uniform weren't welcome.

He was going there, in defiance of the Wakandan government, to find where a particular smuggling network was getting the vibranium that moved along its edges.

He entered amongst others, moving in a crowd.

( He took in everything around him. )

Current Music: Call The Ships To Port - Covenant

thanekos

#2'd seen him going to Latveria, on the trail of smugglers.

He'd met Wade Wilson (no relation) going after the same smugglers for a bounty there - and they'd both met Doctor Doom, who'd taken the two trespassing in his country into custody.

The ruler of Latveria questioned Captain America and Deadpool on their motives.

( Captain America answered for himself. )

Current Music: phony - Will Stetson, NOMELON NOLEMON

thanekos

Issue #1'd had the former, Captain America, and his partner the Falcon foiling an attempted train robbery.

The fallout of that'd led Sam through government channels to Latveria, where Deadpool was taking questions from the state's security services.

Captain America untangled him from his quandary, and the two worked through Doctor Doom's men.

Meanwhile, the Falcon - Joaquin Torres - was talking with one of the surprising human cargo that'd been pulled out of the Super-Soldier Serum smuggling operation that'd been the target of the robbery.

He was talking to his cousin from Sonora, in an off-the-books facility she'd been taken to.

( He was concerned. )

Current Music: Sweet Cloud - The Kills

thanekos

The robbers're masked men.

The ones in their way're Sam Wilson, Captain America, and Joaquin Torres, the Falcon (introduced during Sam's HYDRA!Steve-era Cap tenure).

The one who pointed the latter at the former was Misty Knight, after dinner in Harlem.

( They were out walking. )

Current Music: 人工衛星 - 相対性理论

laughing_tree

I get plenty of rope now because I’ve done the trick quite a few times, but when I was starting out at Marvel (and was very inexperienced -- and very new to ‘just writing’) I didn’t have any way to explain what I was doing story-wise, and while my act was amusing to the bosses, only my editor, Tom Brevoort, really got it and had to go to bat for me numerous times early on (probably more times than I know -- thanks, Tom!). And for a while there, I really couldn’t even explain what I was doing... Then I saw Vince Gilligan (uh, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, X-Files) give an interview where he explained this process [...] Anyway, the process was basically him talking about how, instead of introducing new concepts and characters to your stories with new backstories and unrelated, or parallel, motivations, the thing you should do is ‘mine your own continuity.’ By that, he meant that when you introduce a giant meteor to your story -- that meteor’s history doesn’t begin with it crashing into the planet. It’s not just an inciting incident, and it’s not just a rock (it’s not just a gun, it’s not just a new bad guy, it’s not just a new love interest, it’s not just a cool car, etc, etc) -- it has to have a purpose. And its history should reflect the history of the story you’re telling. This has two-fold effect: One, you get a shiny ‘new’ toy to play with (new is good, but it often doesn’t matter in dense continuity [like, say, the X-Men] unless...), Two, you get a kiss of nostalgia when that new thing connects to an ‘existing story’ in a delightful way you didn’t see coming. This creates a feedback loop that resonates through your storyline making everything matter ‘more.’ -- Jonathan Hickman

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"Oh, plans have changed entirely," Hickman says. "When I pitched the X-Men story I wanted to do, I pitched a very big, very broad, three-act, three-event narrative, the first of which was House of X. And while this loosely worked as a three-year plan, I told Marvel upfront that I honestly had no idea how long the first part would last because there were a lot of interesting ideas that I had seeded that other creators would want to play with, and so, we left this rather open-ended. I was also pretty clear with all the writers that came into the office what the initial, three-act plan was so no one would be surprised when it was time for the line to pivot."
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Yeah, in this issue there's some fantastic exploration of conceptual space blah blah blah, but everyone really wants to know more about those former kids of the Future Foundation, right? As well as someone that hasn't been seen (to my knowledge) since The Initiative...

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From Fantastic Four #25(legacy #670), by Dan Slott and RB Silva:

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