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New Comics Thread: May 25, 2016
What did the "mutant metaphor" mean in the Silver Age?
An interesting blog post by Steven Attewell at Lawyers, Guns & Money taking a fairly serious look at how the mutant metaphor worked in the Silver Age X-Men comics. Although the blog post focuses on how the fear, panic and prejudice over mutants related t...
Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Women of Marvel Podcast
Ta-Nehisi Coates (writer of the new Black Panther series and of other interesting things) was interviewed on the latest Women of Marvel Podcast. Among other things, he talks about growing up as a fan of the X-men and of Spider-man and how he as a kid res...The Threat of X-tinction: Yea or Nay?
From M-Day through AvX, there was a pretty long period when the mutants were under the serious, imminent threat of being completely eliminated. There was a siege mentality happening, with the island of Utopia and the events of Second Coming. Then the Phoe...



