It’s a truly satisfying way to end the collection, making the whole first 12 issues of the book feel like they were always intended to lead this way.
It ends on a big triumphant issue with a celebration that culminates in Kate Pryde loudly and proudly showing the world that she’s queer - something fans who have paid attention to subtext have been waiting for for 40 years. This is something that I think landed better in the single issues, honestly, as the readers went through this grief cycle alongside the characters, but it still works well in trade. One of the best Krakoa series is even better Duggan is telling a truly serialized story here, and so it's a pleasure to read twice as much at once, to see the redevelopment of Kate, her growing relationship with Emma, the rise of Shaw, the development of Pyro, the expansion of the Hellfire houses, and so. This volume focuses on the aftermath of this legitimately huge conclusion, as characters discover and react to the loss of their beloved Red Queen. A second read, after previously reading these issues in the two paperback collections. The focal point of the volume isn’t something that happened here - it’s the shocking ending of the first volume of Marauders, where Kate Pryde seemingly dies due to treachery from Sebastian Shaw. Each issue has a different purpose, even if they all revolve around the same focal point. This kind of modular storytelling is something that got less and less common in the modern era, as plenty of writers would write entire arc-length stories and then chop them up into five or six segments rather than ensure each piece felt complete on its own, but Duggan knocks it out here.
Each 22-page portion of the overall story has a climax and has a conclusion that both feels like satisfying payoff for what happened within the issue itself and motivates the reader to want the next installment. Something I’ve really come to appreciate about the Dawn of X era is that even if issues aren’t necessarily completely standalone, they all feel like complete chunks of story being told.
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