After the messy anti-vax and trans panic stories in Rosencanny, I think that the X-men need to take a break from social commentary for a good long while
"We come into this world alone and we leave the same way. The time we spent in between - time spent alive, sharing, learning together... is all that makes life worth living." - Jean Grey
There’s a Lot more to social commentary than victimization/greed disguised as representation or placating, to be very frank. Even with the best of intentions, It’s all reactionary to the past.
I’d like to challenge/encourage you to consider this new run IS social commentary. It’s offering empowering solutions that boldly, cleanly break with what doesn’t work. Moira’s such a brilliant, brilliant metaphor for everything that began with 60s rights movements.
And to bring it to the now: Hate crimes don’t work. But neither do people in constant cycles of recovery over it or expecting the rest of the world to condone/acknowledge that recovery. And yes I speak as a “traumatized” minority population.
I’d just wouldn’t let the sci-if trappings distract from that. We wanted something new. But having it it means you give up glorifying the angst, and by nature of that I can’t think of a better message the world - red or blue - needs right now.
Calm down. I care A LOT about the mutant metaphor, but not every story needs to be about that. There are books on DOX that will deal with it actually.
Marauders #1 Solicit:
"Even in this glorious new dawn, Mutantkind faces hardships and oppression from their human counterparts. Led by Captain Kate Pryde and funded by Emma Frost and the Hellfire Trading Company, Marauders Storm, Pyro, Bishop and Iceman sail the seas of the world to protect those hated and feared!"
X-Force #1 solicit seems to imply the same at the end, though it might mean something else:
"X-Force is the CIA of the mutant world; Beast, Jean Grey and Sage on the intelligence side, Wolverine, Kid Omega, an Domino on the special ops side. In a perfect world, there would be no need for an X-Force. But we’re not there...yet."
Then there are more books to be released in Wave 2. And also the fact that any writer of any of the titles could make an arc focused on it in the future, or have it as an overall subplot.
Last edited by Wiccan; 08-15-2019 at 12:36 PM.
Hickman has done social commentary when it mattered. Here's an article about Moira X and the nature of passing: https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/08...owers-hickman/
Will there be new variants today or have all of the new ones been posted earlier this week?
So, nothing worth remembering then.
Kyle and Yost may not be bad writers and they did that cartoon people loved and all, but their work on the X-books was largely too grimdark, repetitious and reliant on 90s lore callbacks for my tastes. Every month was more 90s shit and more death. Anything they worked on is a largely uninteresting fog for me.
I don't like Hickman's run too but I think when people pay to be entertained… well they are lucky to be entertained. The other… many X-men comics have been produced, Hickman's run doesn't erase the previous works. It just adds another layer… if you want to add it. I don't want.
“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
"We come into this world alone and we leave the same way. The time we spent in between - time spent alive, sharing, learning together... is all that makes life worth living." - Jean Grey
Last edited by Triniking1234; 08-15-2019 at 01:09 PM.
"Cable was right!"