ICYMI: This last Saturday @watchthemutants was joined by @lesbianjubilee to discuss the themes and stories of Exiles (2001), as well as its groundbreaking & complicated team of multiverse jumping mutants. #XMenMonday @TravisHedgeCoke @magjesus
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What does it mean to rewrite old scenes, to revisit old stories, to change characters and plots, to reuse old titles and dress characters in old clothes? A look at the past 20 years of X-Men & where they may go from here.
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Guest writer Priya Saxena walks us through ‘I Am Not Starfire’ ( Mariko Tamaki, Yoshi Yoshitani, Aditya Bidikar ) and how the story of Mandy, child of an immigrant, shows you can be true to yourself while honoring and respecting the people you came from.
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Love polygons, hypotrochoid psychology, stars under iron masks, perceptual truth. The reality of comfort objects, the Phoenix and Xorn as jouissance, the X-Men as the object of desire. From Slavoj Žižek to Igor Kordey, Luce Irigaray to Neal Adams, reaching.
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From Pepper Potts and Christine Everhart to Valkyrie and Topaz, how has the #MCU evolved in its portrayal of women interacting (or not)?
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Why Magneto can’t be Xorn? Do we have to bring up Alan Moore to talk Grant Morrison? Why do some critics feel a fascist schoolboy is a tragic hero? How do Frank Miller, Chris Claremont, Kevin Smith affect our reading of Magneto’s downfall?
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In our sixteenth installment of #TheWalkingDead Deluxe IN LIVING COLOR, we delve into the story’s use of the horror genre to reflect the terrors of our world with a meaningful voice. @RobertKirkman @RusWooton @DaveMcCaig @CharlieAdlard #TWD
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An imperfect 1000 page comic, New X-Men by Grant Morrison, Phil Jimenez, Igor Kordey, HiFi, et al, stretches from the past to future even when read today. Self-referential, perpetually topical, entrenched in a mythic past.
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The Conjuring franchise is one that’s dominated, and according to some plagued, the horror movie genre for the past ten years. Each time a new movie in the franchise comes out you know, even if you don’t watch horror movies. Let’s see what all the fuss is about.
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What’s the use looking beyond the fictional narrative at metaphors and artist’s lives, other comics and real life? Can’t have a Grant Morrison New X-Men without Grant Morrison, or their father, or a Marvel Comics, or a comics industry.
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Before they gave her a solo movie, #Marvel killed Natasha Romanoff. What went wrong in Nat’s story, and how can the #BlackWidow movie do better for the #MCU?
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The movies we love as children tend to get a whole lot worse once not viewed through the rose colored glasses our childhoods bring. I was expecting that to be true of Independence Day, the hit 1996 sci-fi classic, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that the movie still held up relatively well.
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