Marvel Comics Editor Tom Brevoort has waded into the political debate with fans, fueling concerns that the new X-Men reboot will be another left-wing political manifesto disgusted as a comic. It began when Tom Brevoort posted a graphic with a classic X-Men logo and the text “From The Ashes” and “July 2024.” Fans replied with their concerns and Brevoort went to the comic industry pros playbook of passive-aggressively attacking X-Men readers.
The X-Men has been in bad shape for a long time. In 2019, writer Jonathan Hickman returned to Marvel Comics after years of self-imposed exile to his creator-owned work like East of West, which has gotten mostly positive reception from fans. When he returned to mainstream superheroes, he crafted an extremely cerebral House Of X / Powers Of X dueling miniseries concept, which brought the X-Men to a living mutant island named Krakoa, setting up a future timeline and some strange changes for the mutant team.
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The X-Men now have these organic plant pods, which cause them to respawn after they die, like the world is a video game. It takes all of the danger out of being a mutant. As Professor X and a council try to set up a nation and strongarm the world, the X-Men feel like a totalitarian peacekeeping force more than a band of superheroes trying to save the innocent.
Worse, Jonathan Hickman left Marvel Comics hanging as he set up this intense worldbuilding of Krakoa and didn’t finish a plotline. Marvel then assigned the series to far less talented writers who have made the book an unreadable mess over the last couple of years, spanning far too many titles for a reader to keep up with.
Now, long-time Marvel editor Tom Brevoort is back in the saddle, at least will be once July 2024 rolls around. The tease of “From The Ashes” follows Marvel’s trend of rehashing old storylines. Jonathan Hickman already rehashed “Inferno” during his tenure, and now it looks like Tom Brevoort is using this classic title to herald a reboot.
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Most fans want a departure from the Krakoa storyline that Marvel has botched, and they’re craving a complete reboot of characters like Iceman, who Marvel’s turned gay in recent years in their attempts at pushing identity politics on their readers. Tom Brevoort’s announcement was met with mostly grumbles from fans because they’ve had so much leftist politics forced on them over the years.
Tom Brevoort decided to virtue signal, boding ill for the X-Men franchise’s future in his passive-aggressive response to fans’ X-Men burnout, stating, “Well, this X-Men graphic sure brought people out in force. One reminder that I thought wouldn’t be necessary: express whatever opinion you like, but if you show up with homophobia or bigotry or hate speak of any sort, it’ll be an instant block.”
One fan furthered concern about leftist politics being central to the story, to which Brevoort implies it will be a focus of X-Men under his tenure. “It’s X-Men. The message is the premise,” Tom Brevoort tweeted.
The disdain for fans and lack of concern for their preferences for titles like X-Men has pushed Marvel Comics into some of its lowest sales in history. The comic industry has been reeling because of the rampant political rants inserted into their books by writers and editors like Tom Brevoort.
Cyberfrog creator Ethan Van Sciver made a video on Brevoort’s flippant interactions with fans and posits it’s a high school bullying situation. In his YouTube presentation, Van Sciver goes into the psychology of someone like Tom Brevoort, claiming the X-Men editor must have been bullied in high school, and this is retaliation in some kind of strange power fetish, bullying fans to make him feel better about himself.
As of yet, Tom Brevoort has not publicly commented on Ethan Van Sciver’s analysis and has been on a spree of retweets of unrelated content to try to clear his feed of any criticism for the X-Men property from fans.
From his current comments, however, it appears that Marvel Comics still hasn’t learned their lesson that their extreme leftist politics are hurting the comic industry and turning off their base of readers.
What do you think of Marvel relaunching X-Men with Tom Brevoort editing? Leave a comment and let us know.
As usual, clowns like this think they can dictate popular culture to the unwashed masses from the top down. They refuse to realize it’s a two-way street. Thankfully, we have a choice in the matter; just don’t read it, or watch it. And I doubt many people will. lol