The Krakoa Era lasted for five years. It opened to rave reviews and massive sales, with superstar writer Jonathan Hickman leading a corps of writers who took it upon themselves to change the X-Men ...

Evolution. Mutation. Change. The Krakoa era began with an appropriately uncanny image. Golden eggs under a rich, lush tree, with beams of sunlight piercing the landscape. Two figures emerge from ...

However, nothing lasts forever, and it's worth diving into just how sustainable Krakoa was as a larger storytelling device. It's possible that the Krakoan Era should have been the ongoing status ...

Krakoa has fallen, but what remains in the aftermath of the final battle between mutantkind and Orchis? Do mutants still have a nation to call their own? Are the X-Men still immortal? And what is ...

Now Powers of X #2 reveals not just who they’re working for, as Apocalypse makes his big debut as their new leader, but also that the tree-creature is actually Krakoa itself after taking over ...

A smaller related detail can be found in the turnarounds of Captain Krakoa's head and neck, where a tree-like design runs up his spine and out under the helmet, possibly connecting to those flower ...

and the living island's tree-like visage can be found in one internal chamber. While the addition of Krakoa provides a great location for the Hellfire Gala theme, it's not the only treat that ...

The biggest shift of Krakoa wasn’t one particular story, though, it was the overall mood of the franchise. The X-Men weren’t settling for hiding in the shadows anymore, they were embracing ...

Now living on the sentient island of Krakoa and taking active steps to no longer be a punching bag for humans, the stories that have spun out of this have kept the X-Men books going for almost ...

When mutantkind established its own sovereign nation on Krakoa, it established three new tenants for the newly-unified species to live by: Make More Mutants, Murder No Man, and Respect This Sacred ...