In another blow to the mainstream comic industry, Marvel Comics editor Tom Brevoort has now highlighted just how few people care about these relaunches of beloved properties like the X-Men that are focused on woke identity politics. The “From The Ashes” relaunch has been mired in controversy already, but even Tom Brevoort is seeing indications that his plan might be dead on arrival.
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.”
Industry insiders then revealed that the X-Offices were a complete mess, with rumors of a culture of fear existing around the Marvel Comics bullpen where creators are afraid to speak out lest they be fired by Tom Brevoort and blacklisted.
To make matters worse, Tom Brevoort then doubled down on his message of woke identity politics for X-Men, with the Marvel Comics editor writing a sprawling blog calling critics who are opposed to such matters being in comics “cretins” while gaslighting fans claiming that woke doesn’t exist and simultaneously promising a message-heavy X-Men once more.
Once creative teams were revealed, fans groaned when they saw feminist icon Gail Simone heading Uncanny X-Men and Eve L. Ewing, from Ironheart infamy, writing another x-title. It appears that the announcement failed to generate excitement among comic book readers and that the reboots and all-new #1 issues aren’t going to move the needle this time.
Matters began to look worse as Tom Brevoort took to X to complain that people weren’t tuning in to watch the new trailer for the relaunch.
“Surprisingly not seeing many people talking about our X-Men trailer. So here it is,” Tom Brevoort posted.
The Marvel Comics editor seems completely unaware that his online antics, including lashing out at fan criticism and refusing to listen to readers’ wants from a classic franchise like The X-Men, have already caused disinterest in the upcoming relaunch.
When one fan mentioned the lead writer didn’t give him hope, which he obviously meant Gail Simone since Uncanny X-Men would be the lead title for the line of books, Tom Brevoort went back to his gaslighting ways by claiming, “I don’t have a lead writer. I have writers.”
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Fans piled on Tom Brevoort’s passive-aggressive post about the X-Men trailer, voicing their concerns over the creative teams and the books’ known direction with the woke virtue signaling that Tom Brevoort and others have done while promoting the relaunch efforts.
It doesn’t look good for the X-Men relaunch. One wonders how many times Marvel Comics has to fail before they realize Tom Brevoort’s brand of fan bashing and wokeism won’t sell.
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Just Wow, Tom is the embodiment of Skinner from that Simpsons Meme. He and Bob Igor are two of a kind when it cokes to Killing beloved IP’s. Pathetic!
“Surprisingly”
No, Tom. Not to someone with a functioning brain.
As with games, if they say they don’t want your money, then don’t give it to them.
Iger needs to hurry and shut them down same with Zaslav and DC. IDW, Valiant, Oni Press, they need to go too.
Kelly Thompson just got hired to write Scarlett GI Joe for Skybound.
I know a lot of you are enjoying Ultimate Spider-Man, but if you’re buying Marvel Comics AT ALL, then you’re propping this troll up and making it possible for him to continue the destruction of beloved franchises. You can’t win a culture war by giving your opponents money!
Can’t accuse everybody of being Alt Right, otherwise nobody is “left”… these things write themselves.