The X-Men franchise has been embattled over the last several years with poor storylines and a complete mess in the Krakoa era ever since Jonathan Hickman left the titles to far less talented writers. Marvel Comics planned a reboot a few months ago under the stewardship of editor Tom Brevoort, who has already caused problems by disrespecting long-time fans and blocking readers he politically disagrees with on X. Now, on his newsletter, the Marvel Comics editor has doubled down to gaslight fans and confirm the new reboot will be filled with identity politics.
Warning signs have been clear for X-Men’s forthcoming reboot. Tom Brevoort teased changes with an image labeled “From The Ashes” before arguing with fans about what would come and telling them it would be a political book, saying, “the message is the premise.”
This comment rubbed fans the wrong way, who have been upset in general with Marvel and DC Comics going more woke over the last several years, seeming to make everything about the LGBTQ agenda after a decade of pushing almost all of their characters into interracial relationships to virtue signal on the skin color level.
However, it was followed up by some preview images confirming that the book would push a feminist agenda by putting Rogue and Kitty Pryde in command of the X-Men teams. This is accompanied by the fact Gail Simone is rumored to be writing one of the main titles since she is doing a Free Comic Book Day story for X-Men.
Now, Tom Brevoort has doubled down on the concepts of identity politics, confirming in his newsletter that this X-Men run will only be worse for Marvel Comics than the current Krakoa iteration.
“First off, I think the ill-defined accusation of being “woke” is nonsense,” Tom Brevoort wrote, “and I tend to turn off and tune out whenever it comes up in almost any context. The people who are using it, and who brandish it like a sword to attack whatever they don’t like, tend to be mostly, well, cretins.”
As is par for the course with comic industry pros, Tom Brevoort calls those who disagree with his insertion of leftist ideology into comics names rather than listen to their points as fans and try to create a story that will appeal to everyone. What’s left is the woke agenda, which he also makes clear he intends to put into the books despite claiming it’s nonsense.
“They aren’t making a good faith argument,” Tom Brevoort continued, “they’ve just come up with an all-purpose term, an infinitely adaptable scarlet letter that they can hang on anything they don’t like for any reason. That all laid out, I’ll tell you what I said previously on social media when a version of this question came up: for X-MEN, the message is the concept.”
Messaging will be heavy in the forthcoming X-Men, and they aren’t trying to hide it or claim they’re putting a good story first. The whole concept revolves around “the oppressed,” which in the minds of the woke always means dark-skinned or LGBTQ activism.
Unfortunately, quite the opposite is true in America these days, as anyone who disagrees with the woke agenda gets lambasted and called names by people in positions of authority in these industries, as Tom Brevoort has done here by calling his political opponents “cretins.” Instead of realizing that modern conservatives are much more in line with an outside group like the X-Men, he’s going to double down on “the message,” which is always code for leftist politics.
It would be fun to see, just once, a Marvel Comics editor taking a different tack and putting their money where their mouths are for diversity. This would require hiring someone to write who holds different opinions than the lockstep left-wing echo chamber of the Marvel Comics X-Men offices. However, with him dehumanizing those who disagree with him, Tom Brevoort seems to have more in common with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants with his ideologies than the classic X-Men.
What do you think of Marvel Comics relaunching X-Men with a heavy message? Leave a comment and let us know.
Sales keep plummeting yet the wokeness continues to be pushed…
Thank you Tom ,I won’t have to spend my hard earned cash on this dog sh** story telling you guys are pushing , the bedt xmen stories have been told and you and your ilk will not surpass them. At 4.99 an issue is an easy pass.
Tom Brevoort deserves to be sacked from the industry. Seriously he’s awful.
Tom Brevoort is a real life Mister Sinister.
You know who else used the word cretin to describe fans?
Another uncreative editor. Stan Lee.
He claimed he wrote for
“drooling juveniles and semi-cretins”
What nice editors Tom, and Stanley…
The house of no ideas.
Why do they always wear hats?
They always wear that stupid hat.
They look like some idiot that aged out of the little rascals, and still shows up in costume to do appearances.
The pork pie hat crowd, they appear so non threatening and fun.
Your comics suck Tom. Go troll a Kirby board for people telling the truth about the theft that is the marvel method.
Turd go write a long winded blog where you pick at someone far more creative than you’ll ever be.
LOL Claremont wanted Destiny and Mystique to be Nightcrawler’s parents years ago but go on with your small brain takes 😂. Claremont, you know the guy who LOVED introducing Female characters: Rogue, Psylock, Kitty Pryde, Phoenix, Lilandra, Mystique, Destiny, Selene, Siryn, Emma Frost, Jubilee, Rachel Summers, Madelyn Pryor, Moira MacTaggart, Mirage, Wolfsbane, Lady Mastermind. His FAVORITE character is Storm which you can clearly tell when reading his run. Y’all acting like you’ve never read God Loves, Man Kills where the main villain is an Evangelical televangelist which came out during the height of the AIDS crisis. U ain’t not fan. X-Men will always be an allegory for whichever group is currently marginalized, which is why it will always be relevant.
Scott, You’re a Marxist-loving Moron. Leave this Site!