Nail in the coffin
The nail.
The coffin, of course, holding all of Grant Morrison's interesting ideas about the X-Men, as well as any hope I had of being further interested in the concept.
I suppose their thinking is to play up the "mutants as minority" angle. Except, instead of Morrison's hopeful "maybe we can all learn to get along and this will all be for the best" angle, it's back to "a world that hates and fears them," only times a million because they're now so uncommon.
The societal and personal shifts Morrison chronicled were intesresting. The public outing of the X-Men (and the subsequent adjustment to being both role models and celebrities), making Xavier's an actual school again, opening the school up to humans and mutants alike, the X-Corporations that Xavier founded, these were all interesting, relevant, new ideas. The inevitable "on the run from the Sentinels" pap this event will no doubt lead to is just the same damn rut the X-Men have been in for 35 years. The immediate reversals in Morrison's storylines were distressing, but the underlying shifts he made remained (Whedon's X-Men were just as concerned with public relations and their role as teachers as they were with zapping bad guys). This change, of course, throws the whole thing out the window.
The really depresing thing about X-Men is that they can never succeed. If they actually achieved their dream of peace between man and mutant, then the book would be over, and naturally Marvel can't have that. Apparently now they can't even let stand even the tiniest baby steps towards that goal.
Whedon will have to perform a miracle to get me psyched about post-"House of M" Astonishing. Right now my interest is purely academic, seeing who they'll keep around (I'm guessing Wolverine will make it) and which mutants will be bumped off or depowered.
Infinite Crisis has been described by some at DC as the darkness before the dawn. House of M has seemingly thrown Marvel continuity down a bottomless well, with no light in sight.
The coffin, of course, holding all of Grant Morrison's interesting ideas about the X-Men, as well as any hope I had of being further interested in the concept.
I suppose their thinking is to play up the "mutants as minority" angle. Except, instead of Morrison's hopeful "maybe we can all learn to get along and this will all be for the best" angle, it's back to "a world that hates and fears them," only times a million because they're now so uncommon.
The societal and personal shifts Morrison chronicled were intesresting. The public outing of the X-Men (and the subsequent adjustment to being both role models and celebrities), making Xavier's an actual school again, opening the school up to humans and mutants alike, the X-Corporations that Xavier founded, these were all interesting, relevant, new ideas. The inevitable "on the run from the Sentinels" pap this event will no doubt lead to is just the same damn rut the X-Men have been in for 35 years. The immediate reversals in Morrison's storylines were distressing, but the underlying shifts he made remained (Whedon's X-Men were just as concerned with public relations and their role as teachers as they were with zapping bad guys). This change, of course, throws the whole thing out the window.
The really depresing thing about X-Men is that they can never succeed. If they actually achieved their dream of peace between man and mutant, then the book would be over, and naturally Marvel can't have that. Apparently now they can't even let stand even the tiniest baby steps towards that goal.
Whedon will have to perform a miracle to get me psyched about post-"House of M" Astonishing. Right now my interest is purely academic, seeing who they'll keep around (I'm guessing Wolverine will make it) and which mutants will be bumped off or depowered.
Infinite Crisis has been described by some at DC as the darkness before the dawn. House of M has seemingly thrown Marvel continuity down a bottomless well, with no light in sight.
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