Warning: Spoilers forHouse of X #2below.
Proceed at your own risk.
If that all sounds like a heady brew…well, it is.
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But Hickman employs several methods to make his complex story digestible for readers.
Even in my first work, Ive always played with the idea of what is narrative and what isnt?
What Ive played with inBlack Monday Murderswas a different way to tell the story.
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Even in a pop culture zeitgeist already so inundated by superhero stories,House of XandPowers of Xstand out.
The data pages are a big reason for this.
Thats super important because people consume so much pop culture nowadays.
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All of thats changed.
Everything is hyper-compressed and super dense.
Youre teaching people this is how you read in time, this is how a comic book functions.
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Thats my thinking behind it.
It allows me to cheat narratively.
I can do a more cinematic book if im not robbing the reader of information in the interim pages.
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I dont want somebody to spend $4 and be done with the book in five minutes.
House of X#2 has the series most ambitious data pages yet.
As mentioned above, the issues story explores the many lives of Moira MacTaggert, a.k.a Moira X.
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Once again, there is important story information contained in the data pages.
Eagle-eyed viewers will notice that theres no timeline for Moiras sixth life.
What happened in that lifetime, and what role might it play in things to come…?
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