>>120570977 What does the unseen enemy lurking in the heart of Krakoa mean for its various institutions and the major characters that run them?
>It’s not a straight-up find-a-baddie-and-kick-their-ass book. It's more like there are ideas in the shape of individuals who are gradually chipping away at the things the mutants thought they had.So it's pretty psychedelic, sure. As much a>s I recognize hints of big, speculative 1970s sci-fi in the stuff that John, Gerry, Tini, and all the others are doing in their books, I make no bones about Way of X dipping its toes in a sort of acid-drenched, lysergic version of sci-fi. To give you just one example, we meet one of my favorite X-characters, who has changed considerably since we last met them, and is now growing psychedelic fungus out of their brain. [Laughs] That's where we start, and it’s all expansion and acceleration from there.
So, in addition to mind-bending fun Way of X is also an exploration of what life is actually like on Krakoa?
>Yes. Mutants now have their own empire, but they're still learning how to walk. They haven't figured out what life should be like on a daily basis. They don't have much of a culture yet, but it keeps bubbling-up in strange and sometimes horrific ways. Like the Crucible ritual, in which people can choose to be killed in combat so they can be resurrected in a better form. It just drips with archaic mythological tropes -- The Golden Bough, Rex Nemorensis and all that. Those are just some of the many things Way of X is interested in. 
