X-Men Fans Just Found a Way to Reveal the Comics' Secret Redacted Text
Warning: spoilers for X-Men #9 are ahead.
Jonathan Hickman's revolutionary relaunch of Marvel Comics' mutant franchise, the X-Men, has given readers innovative and creative looks into the inner workings of the X-Men's world since 2019. One of of the most popular new aspects of Hickman's era has been the inclusion of «data pages» in each comic, informational pages with sometimes-redacted «insider information» about different organizations, teams and characters. A fan on Twitter recently discovered that in the most recent X-Men #9 if a reader views a data page in the right light, they can actually see the words meant to be covered up by the black censor bars.
Starting in Hickman's House of X/Powers of X data pages — visually designed by Tom Muller — have been used throughout all the new Krakoan Age X-Books as a way to convey complex information that couldn't reasonably be put into conversation bubbles on page. These data pages have ranged from Sage's internal analysis of the Krakoan islands operations, to information about the secrets of Moira X's expansive 10 lives, as well as deep dives into the inner workings of one of the X-Men's main enemies, the mutant-hating Orchis. The fan discovery explicitly has to do with a Data Page on Orchis' updated strategies and stakeholders in their bid to take down the mutants and the nation of Krakoa.
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X-Men #9 — written by Gerry Duggan with art by Carlos Villa — focuses on the three main governing bodies of the Krakoan Age, Krakoa's Quiet Council, Arakko's Great Ring, and Orchis' Central Column, which are all involved in politically manipulative machinations with each other. The fan on Twitter, who asked to not have their
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