The X-Men should be an allegory for the persecution people who pour milk first then cereal get.
The X-Men should be an allegory for the persecution people who pour milk first then cereal get.
Last edited by KangMiRae; 08-14-2019 at 04:44 AM.
Agreed with all of this. Passage of time washes away the perceived seriousness of these matters, which is why it's gotten easier for Nazis to recruit as the generation that suffered from their evil or had to fight them in World War II passes away to leave only secondhand memories.
And the "would've done something different" crowd falls into the same egotistical self-perceptions as people who think, in a shooting incident, they would run in or whip out a gun and save the day. Nobody's ever going to truly know how they will react unless it actually happens to them. In sum, I agree with you that it's best to hire people who've experienced these things and can speak to what it's like. Or at the very least, getting people who've been through these things as consultants.
I can also be reached on BlueSky and Tumblr. Avatar by kahlart.
Ghosts of Genosha minicomic focused on Polaris, written by me and drawn by Fin_NoMore.
Polaris 50th anniversary minicomic written by me and drawn by Mlad!
Gallery of Polaris commissions (without NSFW or minicomics)
The minorities parallel of X-men Franchise are way too behind time to a point that It's better to drop it than have it now. The entire franchise was looping around extinction story line for more than a decade before Hickman takes over and finally bring something new to it.
I think the mutants only really feel like an ethnic group when robots/pseudo-klansmen are trying to kill them. Most of the time, the youth sub-culture/generational metaphor is stronger, where they have different values from their parents and just want to prove themselves. I guess this is what Hickman is trying to address with the mutant language.
They haven’t harmed comics, and some of them are victims of these kinds of tactics themselves. Geek culture is easy to manipulate, and big data is the tool. People say ‘I can’t be swayed, these are my own ideas’ and then preceded to espouse ideas they don’t even fully grasp.
The challenge to writing this kind of story isn’t the opponents of the stories, the challenge is making it an enjoyable story about mutants. X-Men Red tried and failed to tell a version of this story.
Last edited by JKtheMac; 08-14-2019 at 01:07 AM.
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Absolutely. This is a key part of the nebulous thing that is the Mutant Metaphor. This is why people read derivative works at places like Image and say ‘this was X-Men done right’. If you focus in on teenagers it all becomes so much clearer. This is why school titles so often work. It’s why Morrison worked. Mutant powers are such a good analogy to the profound changes we go though as we approach adulthood.
However, we live in a world where small countries were used as experiments to see if the youth could be manipulated to not vote. Youth culture itself is a construct built in the middle of the twentieth century. There are so many stories in there waiting to emerge.
Last edited by JKtheMac; 08-14-2019 at 01:14 AM.
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I can also be reached on BlueSky and Tumblr. Avatar by kahlart.
Ghosts of Genosha minicomic focused on Polaris, written by me and drawn by Fin_NoMore.
Polaris 50th anniversary minicomic written by me and drawn by Mlad!
Gallery of Polaris commissions (without NSFW or minicomics)
Agreed, more to that point. I think a good writer could stay with the race analogy. Let's just look at what race means to our society. Race right now occupies that position of America's "other" , in a dark, sinister type of way. Now this is beside the fact we live next to it, work with it, and interact with it everyday. Race inhabits a place of deep-seated fear in many Americans that takes them to dark places of thought the surpasses the bounds of reason. So many relevant stories to be told but most writers lack vision and boldness to write
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I like this post.
The problem with the X-Men is like someone said, not enough diversity in a comic that is supposed to promote diversity. Pretty much the same line-up for last 30 plus years.
Also, there is no balance. It seems every human on the planet hates mutants. Where are the human friends and supporters? There used to be human friends and supporters in the X-Men.
Now the X-Men are about mutants, all the humans who hate them and the robot they build to kill them. No tolerance.