Getting the #oneweekonecomic treatment today is @ZacBeThompson, @Lon_Monster & @Failla_comics’ AGE OF X-MAN: THE MARVELOUS X-MEN #1.pic.twitter.com/dRpL7vjGB8
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Similarly, I really like the final balloon here. It’s a simple trick, but having to squint (or, in my case, zoom in) to see what it says makes you a more active participant.pic.twitter.com/A8yJRi7RTB
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This is more or less my first experience of Nature Girl, but … based on this one issue, she seems great?pic.twitter.com/Sux6E8iZmR
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I’ve never really been able to get on board with the X-Men obsession with alt-realities. Like all the alien stuff, I can’t quite see how it fits into the core themes. AoX works because it attacks two vital elements of the X-Men concept:
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1. The X-Men as an x-tended family (which, more than the whole ‘hated and feared’ thing, is what really differentiates them from any other super team –
@Wheeler wrote a great piece about the queer metaphor of it all, years back)http://comicsalliance.com/mutant-proud-xmen-lgbt-rights-family-community-identity …Näytä tämä ketju -
The key rule of X-Man’s world is: no relationships. The prologue one shot last week went hard on the romance angle of this, but it’s actually more affecting to see how it stops them from forming a family.pic.twitter.com/AaU2kCh7I7
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There’s something inherently wrong about seeing the X-Mansion, a centre for this community that has been the target of so many supervillains' schemes, just... replaced, with these individual single-person homes.pic.twitter.com/nNLasOlN42
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2. X-Man sez: No more sexual reproduction! Which ties into the part of the mutant concept that’s about evolution, and sets up a nice contrast with, say, the natural selection obsession of Apocalypse (who is playing the freedom fighter role here).pic.twitter.com/30JmEk2J2U
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It's actually helped me understand why clones are such a big part of X-history. (There are two of them on this team alone.)pic.twitter.com/Z37XOmpNKH
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...Which is really interesting, but it all pales in comparison to the single most important thing about this issue – the introduction of my new favourite X-Men character: Fungus the bear.pic.twitter.com/1PZpJtytJ7
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She's in the new run of Generation X, and yes, she's delightful
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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