Originally Posted by
The Cool Thatguy
Let me preface the following statement with this.
For the tools that Kevin G was given, and the dynamics of the comics themselves, he wrote an excellent New Warriors series. I feel he really 'got' Fabian's first new warriors run and built off of that.
For the tools he was given/had.
Now that said?
Kevin G's tools were utter crap, and I'm not surprised that it's been ignored since.
Imagine that you were writing a story about the Civil Rights era, and the cast had only one black guy. That was Kevin G's New Warriors.
Mutants are not superheroes in the same way Spider-Man is. They don't choose to be heroes, and in theory if racism disappeared, most would go back to society rather than fight crime.
Kevin G made some excellent choices in trying to distract from that. Jubilee and Chamber were good choices as they were in the hero life longer, and the Omega Gang was an excellent choice because they were rebelling against society.
But at the end of the day, you had a cast that was fighting for a cause that really didn't effect them (minus Donny). They should have cut half the cast and used actual superheroes who had skin in the game. That's why the narrative floated to Donny so much, because he was the only actual superhero on the team, and not a minority metaphor.
I could sort of see the logic of mutants fighting registration, but in the end it's a bridge too far.
For superheroes, registering meant that the government defined them. It's a choice they have to make
For minority metaphors/mutants, registration has far different connotations, and those are far uglier. And being a (metaphor) minority isn't a choice they make.
It's a shame Kevin G was put in such a box, because I can see aspects that could have been amazing, if he hadn't had the world's dumbest mandate.