I've read it a couple of times and nothing makes sense.
Can someone eli5 the key points? I'm so confused what is krakoa and what have plants got to do with x-men?
like this is my first hickman comic i have read and isn't he supposed to be a good writer? This is just jumbled mess.
nothing happens
Get back in a year or two, then you'll have your answer
>krakoa
A mutated island.
This is all just the setup still. He’s introducing new ideas and plot points
It was pretty straight-forward, user. Xavier decides to set up a mutant nation on Krakoa (if you haven't read any X-men before, Krakoa is a living island that has been both and ally and enemy of the X-men before) in the same vain as Utopia or Genosha before it. The flowers are extensions of Krakoa that basically create organic embassies that mutants can travel through to get to and from Krakoa. To try and get Krakoa to be recognized as an official nation-state, Xavier and Krokoa develop three super-medicines to give to human nations that recognize them.
Meanwhile, a human-supremacist organization composed of various former members and assets of other secret organizations turn the remains of Tony's Sol's Hammer (a dysphon sphere near the sun) into a base of operations called Mothermold, a play on Mastermold (the giant Sentinel that creates other Sentinels) to act in opposition to Krakoa.
Then there's also hints that Krakoa is somehow able to resurrect dead mutants, but we don't know the specifics of that yet.
Also, to be clear, this is how EVERY Hickman comic reads, so if you had trouble following this issue, don't expect the writing style to get any different going forward.
Also, Mystique went on a black ops trip to steal data on Sol's Hammer, so presumably the mutants know about that situation.
In case you didn't know, Xavier is alive an inhabiting the body previously belonging to Fantomex, hence his ability to walk and his youth.
We don't know how Xavier got this idea, how Krakoa developed these new capabilities, why Xavier is always wearing a cerebro helmet, how exactly many dead characters have come back or if they're truly themselves, or what the situation with the ominous "tumor" portion of Krakoa that Krakoa itself can't sense is. We also don't know they loyalties or story behind Omega Sentinel (bald female) coming to work with this new human black ops group is, as she was previously allied with the X-men last I recall. She is possibly a spy for the mutants.
It is also worth pointing out that Xavier's plan has been in process for 5 months, but the Mothermold facility was started 6 months ago and the group that controls it was formed 2 years ago.
I'm getting a serious Maker (i.e., Ultimate Reed) vibe from this "Xavier". Any thoughts about it being !EvilReed? Hickman's played in the Ultimate Universe before...