🧠 The X-Men’s history deepens — Powers of X #2 (of 6), the second chapter of Jonathan Hickman’s landmark Krakoa era launch, the issue that begins to reveal the full architectural scope of the timeline structure that will define the X-Men for years. Powers of X and House of X launched simultaneously in July 2019, presenting a dual narrative that interlocked across both titles in a way that made reading order itself part of the storytelling experience. Issue #2 of PoX continues the exploration of the four time periods — X0 (present), X10 (the war with Nimrod), X100 (the Phalanx future), and X1000 (the machine-dominated far future) — while developing the Moira MacTaggert revelation that the issue’s predecessor (#1) established and that #2 begins to build on. Each issue of the run reveals more of the structural puzzle, the information in one issue recontextualizing what came before and anticipating what follows. R.B. Silva’s art across the PoX timeline is some of the most precisely executed science fiction visual storytelling in recent mainstream comics — the far-future sequences especially operating at a visual density that rewards careful reading. 🧠 Powers of X #2 is the second layer of the most complex X-Men narrative architecture ever built.

This is Powers of X #2 (of 6) — Jonathan Hickman’s Krakoa era launch, companion to House of X (Marvel Comics, August 2019).

📋 Issue Details

🎨 Writer: Jonathan Hickman
🎨 Art: R.B. Silva
📚 Publisher: Marvel Comics

🔑 Collector Specs

📦 Condition: New Old Stock (NOS), unread