Spiderman should have keep his evolved powers.
Luke Cage made the Avengers better
Spiderman should have keep his evolved powers.
Luke Cage made the Avengers better
Once you allow for dialogue that was pretty typical for the time, Uncanny X-Men 54-65 (the first two issues being included to capture the full arc), featuring the O5, was as good as any x-run ever put to page. I wonder what might have happened they kept going awhile.
Luke Cage should always retain at least some of the anger that characterized his original title run.
I read a lot of Bendis' Avengers but it took the Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoon and the movies for me to really "get" the team and care about what they're all about, even though they went with a take that was decidedly more classic then what Bendis' approach was.
He’s Marvel’s premier speedster, was the son and heir to one of Marvel’s greatest characters for over 30 years, and has been in several arcs and issues of X-Men, Avengers, and the Fantastic Four. That’s a lot of the Marvel universe covered. But sometimes I suspect that’s part of the reason why he’s not as promoted as he should be. His home is officially the Avengers office, despite their lack of interest in him. Every time the X-office uses him, it is on loan, no matter how popular he is. The Avengers office always gets first dibs.
I’d love Pietro to actually be given the love and attention he deserves. A book by Gail Simone and Pepe Larraz would be a dream. Especially if they expanded on his No Surrender abilities, as well as his mutant status.
For starters, Malcolm X wasn't going around attacking submarines and setting off global EMPs (which should have set the entire planet into complete chaos if the comics understood the implications of what they said). It paints Malcolm X as a cartoonish supervillain instead of a reasonable yet outspoken man who wanted equal rights for his people.
This comparison also goes hand in hand with comparing Xavier to Martin Luther King which is also insulting and inaccurate. King was considered pretty damn radical when he was alive. Not only was he very critical of race relations in America but he was also against capitalism and the Vietnam War.
Malcolm X used to say (and I paraphrase) that the only reason his teachings and the teachings of Elijah Muhammad (the then leader of the Nation of Islam) were framed as teaching violence or hate for white people was because of guilt and hypocrisy. That is, white people felt guilt for all the atrocities committed to black people, but they didn't know how to confront it. So, whenever a black man like Malcolm X or Elijah Muhammad spoke about all these atrocities openly, passionately and without sugarcoating it, their reaction was to call it hate speech or say it was radical. This is how Malcolm X was painted as the violent Civil Rights activist, even though he was neither violent nor actually supported the Civil Rights movement (because he didn't support integration). The end goal of Malcolm's teachings was complete separation between black and white people, not supremacy or revenge. That is what Magneto wants.
If anything, Xavier is some kind of combination of what Lee and Kirby thought what MLK and Malcolm were about, considering he gathered a bunch of mutants in one place and taught them how to defend themselves. Not to mention the Professor X moniker (as Malcolm was sometimes referred to as Mr X) and the two-fingers-to-the-temple pose when using his telepathy powers which was Malcolm's signature habit at the time. Magneto on the other hand is just a supremacist and a terrorist.