“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
A frog who was a handsome prince under a spell. It's not like he stayed a frog.
Belle and Tiana got their princes at the end.
I'm black and I'm not about to hold Hill's feet to the fire for one book that didn't have a black male in it. Especially when there are a whole host of factors as to why that was.
Which Hill alone is not going to solve.We all know when it comes to black men and x men they have one of the worst track records in comic book history. Nuff said.
The X-franchise's issues with minorities stretch farther back before Hill.
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Call me crazy but I fear for a while Synch and Darwin will become villains, by conservative calculation they were 537 years in the vault when the issue came out in Jan, if we follow real time. They've been there 1880 years!
If their bodies age but their minds perceive themselves as being there 7 months fine, BUT if they actually are in dilated time and feel like they've been there close to 2000 years you bet they will come out
1.Evolved beyond recognition Darwin and Synch especially(Synch could come out with 3000 plus powers) they could be Omegas ,who would want rebirth on Krakoa after that?They probably can't be killed after being there all 3 of them!
2.In reality they'll have more in common with CoV than mutants a real kinship even if adversarial at first,kind of like criminals behind bars for over 30 years.It changes you
3.They could see the vault as more efficient than Krakoa in driving evolution and so they could be the proto homo novissima that the mutants dread.
Scott may just have doomed the X-Men, for me this is intriguing and if black characters are shown in a villainous albeit sensible role like in this scenario their 'incarceration' makes them flawless villains(their switch is justified) I'm all for the drama
Who said the franchise issue started and began with Hill? NO one ever said that. I am glad you like what hill did and I hope you support his work. I am only giving my opinion. What I said is how I felt about the situation.Also I didnt say it was the only way to feel. Yall stay on this its either this or that mentality its very fatalistic I am only speaking for how I feel about the situation and how I think Black writers might be able to do if they write x men comic books.
Agreed, I had to go back and find out about Shola! The more I read, the madder I got. Here you have an assertive, @$$-kicking type alpha male that happens to be black and yet he isn't on any of the mutant black ops teams ???? Why? I love that he has an aggressive kind of TK.
You know I'm down with 99% of the post bruh! That one percent divergence is on the Cyborg point, only because Walker was taking the character in a great direction until editorial wanted to keep Vic in the tin can look, and not the full black flesh aesthetic Walker was taking him toward! Funny enough it's still relevant to this conversation.
I would really to see Sunspot rise in prominence. Hickman using him was nice and his humor was fabulous but I didn't really appreciate just leaving him in space.
Al Ewing set him up in an interesting position as a major power player with A.I.M., he really should be with X-Corp with Warren and Monet IMO.
Thank you! My one and only break from the X-Books was during this era so I'm not familiar with him. Hopefully we'll see him re-powered, and healed from his nightmare issues, on Krakoa.
Ev is gonna walk out of there as King of the Children of the Vault and ALL of us are going to praise him.
"Danielle... I intend to do something rash and violent." - Betsy Braddock
Krakoa, Arakko, and Otherworld forever!
If the X-office had Hickman write THAT story I would give them the dap of Infinity! Love Synch and to see him be the boss character he should have been would be ecstatic! However, at the end of the day we are asking a leopard to change its spots. The office as an entity has a blindside to writing strong black male heroes as thread alludes to.