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Bluex gen han5/27/2023 ![]() In the comics, Nightcrawler is so dark blue, he’s almost black (c) Marvel/Disney Now, I get it – as the X-Men and mutants themselves are stand-ins for any persecuted group, “blue” can be a stand-in for any skin color except white, as a shorthand to indicate “difference.” That’s a no-brainer.īut this is The Science Of… not The Sociology Of… So let’s talk about blue mutants. There’s a lot of blue ink being splashed around Marvel’s comics, and its mutants have gotten a lot of it. And that’s not counting Yondu, Nebula, the entire Kree race (in the comics), and the pure-blood Atlanteans (Marvel’s, not DC’s). A quick (and wildly incomplete) rundown of blue mutants gives us Beast, Nightcrawler, Angel, Mystique, and En Sabah Nur. Given Hickman’s love of the more cosmic scope and hard science fiction concepts (check his run on Fantastic Four, Avengers, New Avengers, Infinity and Secret Wars for more), I’ll probably be talking about his work on X-Men between now and October, but I did want to hit on one topic that presents a bit of trouble:īlue has been a go-to color to indicate “otherness” in the X-Men (and other comics, to be fair) for years. Powers of X #1 hits shops/Comixology next week. The first issue of House of X is in comic shops now (find your local one here ) or can be purchased digitally through Comixology here. The storyline is bold to say the least, and world-spanning, and is already receiving high praise as the start of a new way of looking at Marvel’s mutants. Marvel’s X-Men franchise got a revitalization this week with the release of House of X #1, the first part of a 12-part relaunch of the X-Men Universe courtesy of writer Jonathan Hickman.
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