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Post by Admin on Apr 17, 2021 3:41:20 GMT -6
Marvel unveils the full, surprising lineup of new X-Men teamSo, these guys are polishing up a story arc from much earlier in X-Men history. I don't remember details, but I do remember -- rather broadly -- the story arc and Krakoa, the living island. From, like the mid or late 1970s. Wondering when the screams of outrage will start over this. Granted, I have no idea who Synch is (other than someone with powers similar to Rogue's and Taskmaster's) or what they look like. But, this is new team is all white. Because, I'm lumping Sunfire's sallow skin tone in with the Caucasians.
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Post by vitugglan on Apr 17, 2021 8:43:52 GMT -6
As I haven't followed comics since the 1970s, I had to look Sunfire (cool name) up. He looks white, but the article says he's Japanese, so Asian. At the moment, politics don't agree on where to place Asians. Sometimes they're white (a YouTuber I follow is part Korean, part Japanese, and part White so he calls himself 'triple White') and sometimes they're victims of oppression and so qualify as non-white Asian. The guy seems to identify as Japanese so I'll call him Japanese.
Yow! "two different Wolverine's" does NOT need that apostrophe! Yahoo, buy yourself an editor.
If all the mutants live on this living island, how does that work for adventures? Do they confine themselves to the island, or do they fight good/bad out in the rest of the world?
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Post by Admin on Apr 18, 2021 6:18:15 GMT -6
If I misremember to plotlines. The civilian mutants kept things going and folks like the X-Men teams went out and kicked ass off the island when the need arose.
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Post by vitugglan on Apr 18, 2021 7:46:35 GMT -6
Ah. I read comics when they were more explicitly for kids. They'd need more adventure and less philosophizing to keep those readers interested.
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Post by Admin on Apr 19, 2021 15:55:00 GMT -6
comic titles like Richie Rich, the various Archie titles and along those lines were for kids. A lot of the Marvel titles (and quite a few DC ones as well) were more for teen boys and young adult men. Hence the cringy costumes and physiology on many of the female characters. Even with the Comic Code Authority (that stamp looking thing in the upper left of most comic covers) Marvel did like to kinda poke pin holes in the envelope as often as they figured they could get away with it without getting the proverbial ruler to the knuckles. They cloaked a lot of their social commentary in the fictional story arcs of the titles. In the 70s and 80s some of the titles addressed homelessness, drug abuse, alcoholism ( Ironman's Demon in the Bottle story arc was just one that comes to mind). Jim Crow, civil rights could be hidden in fighting between the X-Men and Magneto's Brotherhood even as broader society hated both groups because they were mutants. The Cold War could be commented on with Hydra and SHIELD or GI Joe and Cobra.
Having a superpower did not solve the character's life problems. More often than not, it made them worse. And Stark, Parker and Murdock (as well as quite a few others I can't think of) all had day jobs.
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Post by vitugglan on Apr 20, 2021 5:13:11 GMT -6
I read Archie, Richie Rich, Casper, Baby Huey when there was nothing else on the rack, Sugar and Spike, creep show comics, Superman, and, as I got older, Batman, Spider Man, Sub-Mariner - never Aqua Man, I mean, really, did you see the colors of his outfit? - Fantastic Four, and I'm sure I'm forgetting quite a few. I liked Poison Ivy because she had red hair. Boys and young men? I was one of those readers, too, and so were other girls I knew or who I've met later. The sexy outfits - man, I would love to have had some of those! I was never a good seamstress, though, so they were just fantasy clothes. Guys might ogle but I wanted to be poured into one of those. (I also wanted the boobs to be able to be poured into one of those.)
And of course, as an up-and-coming angsty teen I enjoyed the tortured soul of The Batman and the problems of being a teen and a super-hero as shown in Spider Man. You know, my dad bought me my first Batman comic series. It was a paperback book that had the entire Batman story, or maybe just the highlights, in it from the breaking of the pearls to his then more recent adventures. No Robin origin, which made me sad since I absolutely fangirled over Burt Ward. That was about the time Batman premiered on TV so I had two Batmen, the silly one who didn't know how to dispose of a bomb on a crowded pier and the one who lost his parents in a dark and monochrome alleyway after a show. I know the narrative is that comics were just for boys, but I never actually saw it.
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