Brubaker also revealed that Krakoa, the Island that Walked like a Man, didn't talk like a man: that was Professor X further trying to cover his ass, by using his powers to make everyone think the island was yelling and talking shit. The Prof's talents apparently don't lie in improv, but this is a retcon I can live with, as it both makes more sense and makes Krakoa creepier. But, even that goes against more continuity!
Excalibur #31, Scott Lobdell writes and Dave Ross pencils, "No Man Is an Island (But No Island Is a Man Either So It Works Out)", and I have to quote the synopsis from Grand Comics Database: "Nightcrawler flies off for a little R&R but crash lands on an island that is the home of (I'm NOT making this up) the Son of Krakoa, The Living Island (from Giant-Size X-Men #1); Mayhem and general silliness ensues."
Now, they have got to see some crazy shit over at the GCD, but this issue was so weird whoever scanned it in had to verify the synopsis. I like Lobdell's Nightcrawler; and he wrote a lot of funny, throwaway stories. I believe he also did stand-up at one point, which kind of figures: when his stories work, they work pretty well; when they don't, they die up on stage. This one has it's moments, but Kurt Busiek and Mark Waid couldn't fit that one into continuity. (Professor X was in space, so he couldn't have run Son of Krakoa's dialog, although it is funny to think of him sitting there, completely out of material, trying to make quips while Kurt fought an angry giant frog.)
In conclusion: new story kicking off limited X-series and 12-issue regular arc by hot new writer, trumps the continuity of one issue joke. Fortunately, Marvel's continuity works not unlike the Simpsons, and possibly my own: "This was our best vacation ever. Now, let us never speak of this again."
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