Inferno will be Jonathan Hickman's last X-Men comic for now

From Entertainment Weekly
X-Men comic fans have been fearing this day, but alas, it has arrived. EW can confirm that Jonathan Hickman, the writer behind the celebrated 2019 comics House of X and Powers of X (illustrated by Pepe Larraz and R.B. Silva) that relaunched Marvel's mutants with a radical new status quo, will be departing the X-Men line after his upcoming Inferno series wraps up.
But though this sounds like bad news, readers should take it as a sign of just how successful this new era of X-Men comics has become. Hickman tells EW that his initial plan for the X-line has been massively expanded, thanks to contributions from the other writers and artists who came in to write comics alongside him (including Vita Ayala, Gerry Duggan, Al Ewing, Tini Howard, Benjamin Percy, Si Spurrier, Zeb Wells, Leah Williams, and more).
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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."

Hickman continues, "However, I also knew that I was cooking with dynamite, and it was very possible that what I had written in House of X, and the ideas contained within, was not actually the first act of a three-act story, but something that resonated more deeply and worked more like Giant-Size X-Men, where it would represent a paradigm shift in the entire X-Men line for a prolonged period of time. So, during the pandemic, when the time came for me to start pointing things toward writing the second-act event, I asked everyone if they were ready for me to do that, and to a man, everyone wanted to stay in the first act. It was really interesting, because I appreciated that House of X resonated with them to the extent that they didn't want it to end, but the reality was that I knew I would be leaving the line early."
And so, Hickman has slowly been bowing out. The flagship X-Men comic, which Hickman had been writing since House of X and Powers of X concluded in fall 2019, was recently relaunched by Duggan and Larraz. The current New Mutants book, which Hickman originally co-wrote with Ed Brisson, was taken over last year by Ayala (though artist Rod Reis remains).
Last week, Hickman and other high-profile comic creators announced they were beginning new projects on Substack. But though the timing matches up, these things aren't closely related. Hickman will continue working at Marvel even as he launches 3 Moons, 3 Worlds with artists Mike Del Mundo and Mike Huddleston. He just won't be writing monthly mutant comics for a while.

Inferno将会是西克曼长期内最后一部X人漫画，西克曼原先的计划是从HOXPOX开始规划三大章节，但编辑部把HOXPOX这个第一章通过别刊无限拉长到现在，再加上西克曼最近签约substack也是离开的原因之一，以后大概就要Duggan, Percy, Leah, Ayala, Ewing, Spurrier这几位捧X系了

看来X系扩展太多了，可能拉不回希克曼原本的计划上了

我看了下，好像没完全跑路，
希克曼是不写月刊了，只负责搞大事件了，
Inferno就是属于一个大事件，弄完这个好像会去策划下一个大事件

你过江我也过江！

他走之后如果让格瑞达根这种水平的人来顶替，那么X刊也不用每周都追了

倒未必是编辑部逼走的......我觉得更像是他自己想去搞substack，他之前吐槽过漫威出版模式太僵化，漫威给他的权限应该已经是高了的，但出版模式之类的也不可能让他决定

以及，希克曼虽走，但k岛永存，未必不是好事

唯一的问题是，希克曼走后不知道x系编辑部的统筹规划会不会出问题

意思就是自己都没想到k岛的故事能扩展到那么大/成了最大的摇钱树；自己的故事尾大不掉了还不如逐步放权跑路。

挖了那么多天坑谁来填

hox/pox后的刊物完全达不到hox/pox的水平，没办法，只有一个希克曼