House Of X/Powers Of X Pepe Larraz Cover [New Printing]

by Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz (Illustrator)

448 pages, Hardcover

Published November 18, 2025

About the author

Jonathan Hickman is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for creating the Image Comics series The Nightly News, The Manhattan Projects and East of West, as well as working on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, FF, and S.H.I.E.L.D. titles. In 2012, Hickman ended his run on the Fantastic Four titles to write The Avengers and The New Avengers, as part the "Marvel NOW!" relaunch. In 2013, Hickman wrote a six-part miniseries, Infinity, plus Avengers tie-ins for Marvel Comics. In 2015, he wrote the crossover event Secret Wars. - Wikipedia

Reviews

[Lukáš Kudela · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m genuinely glad this book got a reprint and that I was able to add it to my collection. I’m also honestly happy that Marvel is finally making a real effort to collect the entire Krakoa era in omnibus format (and I truly hope they see it through to the end). With this OHC, we’re given the opening chapter of this new age of mutants.

And it is without a doubt an exceptional opening chapter. Charles Xavier, alongside Magneto and the silent partner Moira, open the door for mutants to their own nation… the nation of Krakoa. A utopian place, a living island, where mutants live side by side without fear of humans. Governed by their own laws and finally free… and happy?

Hickman brings a number of brilliant ideas to the table: Moira’s lives, the resurrection protocols, and glimpses into the future of the entire mutant nation. I don’t want to spoil anything, because in my opinion the best way to experience this event is to go in as blind as possible. Let Hickman shock you and take your breath away. And yes, I literally gasped a few times at what unfolded on the pages before me.

This is not an action-heavy comic. There is some action here and there, but it’s kept to a minimum. This is a philosophical statement, a groundwork-laying story for the boldest shift in the mutant status quo that the Marvel Universe has seen in decades. Mutants are here, they hold humanity in check, and they’ve had enough of being oppressed. They want peace, and they want it now. They don’t seek revenge, but they are done enduring hatred and countless genocides that Homo superior has suffered.

It is time for utopia. Yes, the inevitability of tragedy hangs in the air at every moment, and I can’t wait to see what happens next in the Age of Krakoa. This is a stunning start, and I couldn’t be more satisfied.

Well done, Mr. Hickman. Bring me more!