Are there any People of Color Writing XMEN?

[Sain]

And does it matter? Obviously, the best writer for the job should win. No matter what color.

But months ago I've seen someone on here compile a list of writers and artists of recent X books and by name alone, the artists were glaringly more diverse, but when I google a hand full of writers to see their images they were all white.

Given the recurring concept of the XMEN representing a metaphor for the disenfranchised, and how that concept is currently being clumsily handled with a narrow, dated, and black and white point of view; wouldn't it help if people of color show their perspective? The same way they do Black Panther and Ms. Marvel?

I even just watched one of those mini docs on the Marvel YT on the XMEN and I noticed it was just white after white after white.

But of course, correct me if I'm wrong. I also don't feel POC means instant success, they'd still have to be a good writer and understand a character, etc. But it's at a point where it is suspiciously glaring.

[Tycon]

Vita Ayala, a nonbinary black writer, is working on Age of X-Man: Prisoner X. I believe Seanan McGuire is Romani and she's working on Age of X-Man: Amazing Nightcrawler. Currently, those are the only two.

[Silver Fang]

Vita Ayala, a nonbinary black writer, is working on Age of X-Man: Prisoner X. I believe Seanan McGuire is Romani and she's working on Age of X-Man: Amazing Nightcrawler. Currently, those are the only two.

This. Only examples I can think of. We got Chris Robinson, and Editor of color. But doesn't mean much. He was editing Weapon X but didn't seem to call out or put a stop to colorists making Monet a white woman when she's supposed to be brown.

[Master of Sound]

I think the term 'of color' is not clear.

Do you mean Afro-Americans, or any taste that is not caucasian?

Because we did have plenty writers who their origins lay in Asia.

[Killerbee911]

I even just watched one of those mini docs on the Marvel YT on the XMEN and I noticed it was just white after white after white.

But of course, correct me if I'm wrong. I also don't feel POC means instant success, they'd still have to be a good writer and understand a character, etc. But it's at a point where it is suspiciously glaring.

Yes they are but none have broken out as a big thing so that is difference between "hey this cool idea can you use it" and Hickman level "hey cancel the X-men line"" I am using these characters" and editorial leaves you alone. That said Marvel is reaching outside to big name writers outside of the comic world so Ta-Nehisi Coates and Nnedi Okorafor are around at Marvel. It is only matter time one of them get on a X-man project imo. Vita Ayla is doing Prisoner X and she is pretty good. Saladin Ahmed did Exiles I hope he gets chance at bigger X-book because he always finds a way to emphasize poc and minorities well in his books.

Because we did have plenty writers who their origins lay in Asia.

Like Akira Yoshida I hear he did some great stuff

[comeatmebro]

Like Akira Yoshida I hear he did some great stuff

his X-Men work was actually pretty darn good

[Triniking1234]

I don't do stuff like Google what the staff looks like and stalk -I mean- follow them on social media so I have no idea what race/gender some of these guys are.

Just gimme good stories. Gimme more Prisoner X with mean Gabby. And more Iron Heart. And take Moses Magnum out of that boring Shuri book.

[Havok83]

Vita Ayala, a nonbinary black writer, is working on Age of X-Man: Prisoner X. I believe Seanan McGuire is Romani and she's working on Age of X-Man: Amazing Nightcrawler. Currently, those are the only two.

Seanan is not a woman of color

[Snoop Dogg]

nick spencer is not capturing the african american experience with any x-men yet, no

[Kurisu]

Yeah, no one is buying them though.

[Tycon]

Seanan is not a woman of color

She’s Romani. Take that how you will, but a lot of Romani are white-passing. It’s that same confusion that lead us to get Wendy Mayomoff in the MCU instead of an actual brown Romani woman.

[Triniking1234]

Eh. Wanda, Pietro, their mum, Doom and his parents are white in the comics anyway.

[Triniking1234]

Speaking of X-23 there's Mariko Tamaki.

[Tenebrae]

Please understand the use of racist language will not be tolerated. If you don't know what I mean by that, educate yourself.

[Tycon]

Eh. Wanda, Pietro, their mum, Doom and his parents are white in the comics anyway.

That’s why I loved Ahmed’s QS: No Surrender. I think he specifically asked th the colorist to make them brown. And then there was Doom in Gwenpool: