I think hickman is brilliant. There are plenty of other writers that are currently going that i enjoy as well. With the introduction of sword, i’m here for it. I feel there are a bit too many x titles for my liking as i find it hard to keep up with everything but i also realize that is a good problem to have. I do wish for a more focused xmen run on the flagship title but with everything going on i can understand why they have not. That could possibly change soon with them voting on a new xmen team. Overall, hickman has captured everything i have loved about xmen from the past decades while also pushing new ideas to take into the future. I’m happy with the xmen. I hope some others who don’t enjoy it can get more out of it after hickman is complete and my thinking is with the big picture in retrospect it could be the greatest thing to happen to xmen in a very long time.
I stopped reading the X-Men during the Morrison run and came back to read HoxPox. There are so many ways this story could go but for me the end goal should be the dream to peacefully co-exist. The icing on the cake would be for Xavier to see this dream come true because in my time of reading the X-men
they lived in a world that feared and hated them.
Yeah i mean we will have to wait and see if the end game is satisfying. I have trust in hickman but i also try not to bottle up the narrative in that it has to end up a certain way. There are things i would like to see of course but i am in it for the long game so right now i am just going to enjoy the ride.
I don’t think they have. Cyclops said it best when he told the quiet council that the xmen are heroes. This is the true nature of the xmen, that despite being hated and feared, they are always willing to lay everything on the line to save both mutants and humanity as a whole. While i do think there are certain philosophies on krakoa that are problematic with mutant and human relations, i feel this is more how the struggle is evolving. Yes, xavier had a dream. It certainly feels like that dream is being overshadowed by a more sinister narrative that pulls at him. Yet, the xmen was never about charles xavier. It was never about cyclops. It is about mutant heroes being the ones to be there when all the chips are down and everyone and everything being against them. I think hickman is setting up for a beautiful new beginning for the xmen. A beginning which pays hella homage to the past that came before him. I think many writers have a hard time juggling this delicate line. I guess we will just have to wait and see where it ultimately ends up.
What a take, make Beast sound more vilainous than Pym and Doc Octopus. Morrison's Beast really has come red flags.
The conclusion that mutants are also human are very obvious and we already know it. I think the conclusion is that humans need to unite with mutant to build a better future. Another "well duh"
Comics never move beyond x-men and Peter parker having 28 years old, so the moment will never arrive;. No wonder nobody eer referenced that again.
Claremont realy build the x-men. There is good runs after him, but I feels like the franchise turned to be the opposite of what he was doing
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Naysayers. Lots and lots of naysayers. If you think the xmen have not been good since claremont i really question the validity of your familiarization with the xmen since his time was over. I get not liking a run. There have been many i have not liked. The level of negativity expressed through some of your posts though comes across as pretentious i am sorry to say.
No, because honestly, i should not have said it. I am just getting annoyed at the constant negativity i see about hickman. It would be different if i felt people were coming from an honest place with their criticism. Though, tbf, i think a lot of it is probably they do not know how to pinpoint what it is they don’t like about it. The constant gaslighting and hyperbole i see thrown around just gets me riled up and for that i am at fault.
Yeah, i am aware his work is regarded as a critical success. It just bums me when people just trashing him without giving him a fair chance. Like yeah not 100% of the issues have been brilliant, but do you really want something that just gives us fan service every month without doing anything new with the xmen? I dunno maybe i am just being to hard on people