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Podcast: Comic Book Herald
Episode: Krakin’ Krakoa #73: Did Hickman Actually Retcon Mister Sinister?
Description: The word retcon gets thrown around – sometimes wildly, sometimes recklessly – a lot in comic book circles to describe an act of rewriting a character’s history, changing seemingly fundamental details long thought to be that character’s truth. Spelled out, it’s “retro continuity,” or a sort of revisionist history that upends a status quo. For me it effectively boils down to one question: Does this irrevocably change the way we read the character’s previous appearances in comics?
In the world of writer Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men, a good example is the revelations of House of X #2, in...