Goodbye, Marvel Comics
Apr. 19th, 2017 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightTook a momentous (well, not in the grand scheme of things, but you know what I mean) decision today and decided to kick my X-Men comics habit to the kerb for good.
Reasons why behind cut.
It wasn't that hard, actually. My favourite X-Men character is Magneto - has been, ever since Chris Claremont gave him the Holocaust survivor origin story back in the '80s. Since then, the character has bounced from hero to anti-hero to outright villain (which is how he started off in the 60s) and back again at regular intervals, depending on the writer/editor. There were lots of things about his story I liked - notably his relationship with Rogue (in which I was pretty much alone, I suspect), and his relationships with his children (before Marvel ruined that with a stupid retcon)- and plenty of things I didn't like, such as when he got too megalomaniacal, when Hitler comparisons were made, etc.
Details of his past were kind of vague, until Magneto: Testament came out. That established him once and for all (so I thought) as a Jew, and detailed his suffering under the Nazis quite graphically (literally, I suppose).
I really did believe after that that Marvel would - even if they made the character a villain again - take a certain amount of care with him and at least treat his origin story with respect. Now, however, there are rumours that in the latest Marvel-wide event, Secret Empire, he's going to be revealed as having been a Hydra agent all along. Okay, they are apparently trying to make out that Hydra aren't based on the Nazis, but of course they are, for which see the first Captain America movie - not to mention endless old-school Marvel comics. So I'm kind of pissed off by this. It doesn't sit well with me at all, and it smacks way too much of the very unpleasant current zeitgeist.
'Course, the rumour could be a fake-out, or totally wrong, but I've decided not to stick around to find out. Finally, after most of my adult life, I am done with these things.
About time really, I guess?
Reasons why behind cut.
It wasn't that hard, actually. My favourite X-Men character is Magneto - has been, ever since Chris Claremont gave him the Holocaust survivor origin story back in the '80s. Since then, the character has bounced from hero to anti-hero to outright villain (which is how he started off in the 60s) and back again at regular intervals, depending on the writer/editor. There were lots of things about his story I liked - notably his relationship with Rogue (in which I was pretty much alone, I suspect), and his relationships with his children (before Marvel ruined that with a stupid retcon)- and plenty of things I didn't like, such as when he got too megalomaniacal, when Hitler comparisons were made, etc.
Details of his past were kind of vague, until Magneto: Testament came out. That established him once and for all (so I thought) as a Jew, and detailed his suffering under the Nazis quite graphically (literally, I suppose).
I really did believe after that that Marvel would - even if they made the character a villain again - take a certain amount of care with him and at least treat his origin story with respect. Now, however, there are rumours that in the latest Marvel-wide event, Secret Empire, he's going to be revealed as having been a Hydra agent all along. Okay, they are apparently trying to make out that Hydra aren't based on the Nazis, but of course they are, for which see the first Captain America movie - not to mention endless old-school Marvel comics. So I'm kind of pissed off by this. It doesn't sit well with me at all, and it smacks way too much of the very unpleasant current zeitgeist.
'Course, the rumour could be a fake-out, or totally wrong, but I've decided not to stick around to find out. Finally, after most of my adult life, I am done with these things.
About time really, I guess?