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I’ve never been a huge X-Men fan. Even the original Fox Kids cartoon didn’t do much for me, so the relaunch didn’t make me miss Disney+. I hope that’s not a theme this week, but I saw an article from Bounding Into Comics where Tom Brevoort, incoming editor to the X-Books took a shot at the “Krakoa era” finale and showed that he may understand superheroes whatever his current political commentary may say. I haven’t heard anything direct, but TwitterX had turned everyone into cultural experts and activists.

Anyway, the article. Brevoort voiced his disproval for what outgoing editor Jordan D. White allowed to happen during the Krakoa Era, where all the mutants went to a private island (which is a leftover from an old horror comic story from Marvel about a living island) to get away from humanity and slowly lost their own in the process. In short, the X-Men became the Inhumans, born with great powers and cutting themselves off from society. Brevoort’s specific argument was on how the X-Men responded to an attack by some group called Orchis, an anti-mutant fantic group that tried to wipe them all out. That’s the limits of what I know outside of Just Some Guy and Comics By Perch videos on YouTube because I only watched those out of curiosity.

I’m here less to talk about the specifics about the era I didn’t pay attention to and focus on what Brevoort said about the choices made by the editor before him and the writers about why he opposed the X-Men’s gleeful killing of the extremists regardless of what they did to the Krakoan mutants. He was not happy with the turn of events, but critics of the Krakoa period didn’t like anything they did, from the “plant clones” of killed mutants to that one-shot story with Nature Girl killing a store clerk in Nevada after finding a turtle in the Pacific Ocean choking on a bad from that store and blaming the landlocked bagger…and the comic insisting she was in the right. That’s the worse crime I know of from this period, but Brevoort has other opinions.

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