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scans_daily2010-10-03 04:07 pm
richardak) wrote in scans_daily2010-10-03 04:07 pm
Here's an X-Men comic I could really get behind.
In 2009, Marvel published with Del Rey a comic called X-Men: Misfits, reimagining the story in the style of a Japanese high-school soap-opera comic. Even though I'm not a fan of the X-Men and never have been, I liked this comic, mostly because it took the idea of a school for mutants seriously, and the conflicts between different groups of mutants played out among factions of students and faculty at the school. One of the (several) things I didn't like about the mainstream X titles was that, far too often, the interesting premise was just an excuse for conventional superhero action. Unfortunately, it appears to be highly in doubt whether there will ever be a volume 2. Oh well. Anyway, here are some scans. I've only done a handful out of the approximately 175 page first volume, so page limits shouldn't be an issue. If there's interest, I'll post more. Incidentally, this is not a Japanese comic. The writers are American and the artist is Indonesian, but it has clearly been heavily influenced in both writing and art by a number of different Japanese comics.
When she arrives at school, Kitty is in for a bit of a surprise about the makeup of the student body....
To be blunt, it was an odd decision to make Kitty the only female student. The purpose it serves in the story, so far as I can tell, is that it helps catapult Kitty quite quickly to the upper echelon of the school's social hierarchy, which is necessary for the direction the writers wanted to go to the story. Putting Kitty in a privileged position within the school enables them to tell a certain kind of story. Anyway, that's largely the subject of another post if people are interested.
One of the things I'm not sure how I feel about regarding this comic is the way they've introduced a family connection between Lensherr and the Prydes. It's clearly implied that Kitty's grandfather saved Lensherr during the Holocaust, and the fact that the writers made Kitty the protagonist creates a pretty powerful subtext, hardly new to X-Men comics, but I've never really bought the metaphor.
When she arrives at school, Kitty is in for a bit of a surprise about the makeup of the student body....
To be blunt, it was an odd decision to make Kitty the only female student. The purpose it serves in the story, so far as I can tell, is that it helps catapult Kitty quite quickly to the upper echelon of the school's social hierarchy, which is necessary for the direction the writers wanted to go to the story. Putting Kitty in a privileged position within the school enables them to tell a certain kind of story. Anyway, that's largely the subject of another post if people are interested.
One of the things I'm not sure how I feel about regarding this comic is the way they've introduced a family connection between Lensherr and the Prydes. It's clearly implied that Kitty's grandfather saved Lensherr during the Holocaust, and the fact that the writers made Kitty the protagonist creates a pretty powerful subtext, hardly new to X-Men comics, but I've never really bought the metaphor.
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