We'll see exactly what that means. But I certainly won't be shocked by more race, gender and sexuality changes. And I am certain the focus of the story will be just as much a political diatribe as the other Marvel content that didn't work and lost Disney money. It's just what the current writers at Marvel do. It's specifically why they're being hired, despite it having a relative small audience outside their own writer's rooms and sending their reader/viewership spiraling down the toilet.
The fact that '‘X-Men ’97’ Executive Producer Beau DeMayo Reveals Series’ Story Is Informed By His Experience As A Black Gay Man' doesn't really bode well for its chances to be successful. That is a rather small demographic to cater to,
especially at the expense of all the 80s and 90s kids who are (were?) nostalgic for this. You know what that audience looks like and where most of them stand politically. It is the exact audience Marvel lost, and why the Western comics industry is reeling.
The fact is there just isn't a huge audience for X-Men anymore. You can see it in these very CBR forums (one of the biggest on the web). It's the same two or three dozen people making all the posts. When I was a teenager, there were thousands of kids like me talking about X-Men online. And that was when we had to ask our parents to use the phone line for dialup AOL!
That's because people like me tuned out over the last two decades. But (at least speaking for myself), I was really excited to see this get picked up. Then, it because clear Marvel will do all the things that turned me off to the rest of its content. That they brought this guy in to do a 'modern retelling'. I laugh at that because audiences have been been very clear since at least End Game (and All New All Different) that 'modernizing' our childhood heroes and stories is usually not something we will spend time and money one.
If this show doesn't pick up viewership from the 80s and 90s kids like me, it is not going to be successful. And I say that as someone who wants this to succeed so that I can see my favorite characters again for the first time in a long time. If this fails, we all lose an opportunity, including the people who love the X-Men and didn't see enough characters like themselves way back when. I don't know why they focus on a tiny segment of the audience and purposely repel the solid half that doesn't share their politics and just wants the fun, simple enjoyment of what TAS used to be rather than some kind of forced, cringey lectures they've been turning out. I'm afraid this is going to be another abortion like Bishop's (Affirmative Action) War College, and unfortunately that's the only way Marvel will use these characters we love. :c(
https://boundingintocomics.com/2023/...black-gay-man/