A Sense of Doubt blog post #3526 - X-Men - Too Woke? Comic Book Sunday for 2410.13
Earlier this year Ugly Twitter exploded with arguments that the X-Men were too woke, that comic creators like Chris Claremont were pushing their WOKE agenda -- before WOKE was a term for this way of being -- on impressionable young people to indoctrinate them.
And really, so many readers were already woke that Claremont and crew were often playing to the crowd.
MAGA crowd: GET A LIFE.
"Siri, show me Chris Claremont's X-Men run." https://t.co/SCsddzG9pm
— John Trumbull (@TrumbullComic) February 17, 2024
All these supposed “longtime” X-Men “fans” are suddenly being met with decades of Claremont making X-Men the most progressive comics by Marvel. https://t.co/zbGAl28CeP
— SJW Captain America (@USjwAgent) February 16, 2024
Criticising X-Men for being "woke" (a nonsense term in its own right) just makes you look like an imbecile.
— Michael O'Connor (@NoWordCount) February 16, 2024
The man who created the overwhelming majority of the X-Men's defining history - Chris Claremont - was a queer kinkster.
5 decades ago.
You simply don't know any better. pic.twitter.com/iVVOkY36qb
While never officially made cannon, Storm has been an iconic queer icon, especially after her queer coded relationship with Japanese Ninja Yukio which led to her iconic Mohawk era in The Uncanny X-Men #173 (October 1983), by Claremont and artist Paul Smith. pic.twitter.com/USjeOlOh3P
— Professor X’s Snatched Wig (@ianmichseb) February 14, 2024
(Joking aside, there are criticisms to be made of Claremont’s repeatedly inclusion of certain sexual fetishes in the “X-Men.”
— Darren Mooney (@Darren_Mooney) February 17, 2024
But, under Claremont, the “X-Men” became the queerest and most kink-positive superhero book to that point. This was part of what makes Claremont great.) pic.twitter.com/aPLpqEEZQ9
Also to counter right-wing revisionism: the white bread team got canceled. It was a failed book until it got good with the Giant-Sized reboot.
— A.J. Carey - Wearing Many Hats This Month (@AJC_DoesItAll) February 17, 2024
Here's a better example of Claremont's X-men. pic.twitter.com/B97v6CjM5z
Here’s a comment from Chris Claremont himself on the relevancy of the X-Men pic.twitter.com/j8NgklM9Ds
— Lord Edge (@cgd0911) February 16, 2024
I always remember this panel that at the time & now is just camp. This was nearly a decade into his X-Men run & by now surely someone sussed out what Claremont was doing? pic.twitter.com/GDnjdzcgyA
— Glenn Miller (@FakeGlennMiller) February 17, 2024
If you’re a consumer going into X-Men not expecting politics of any sort I’d simply recommend you just instead indulge in X-Men content pre Claremont. Which is basically just the original 5 members. No Wolverine, nothing. pic.twitter.com/EflOugO4yQ
— Prince Yakub (@Firstname272618) February 16, 2024
New X-men by Grant Morrison
— Justin (@funkypizza) February 17, 2024
Astonishing X-Men
X-men: First Class by Jeff Parker
Also someone on reddit made a great Claremont reading guide pic.twitter.com/0Eijd3gery
John Byrne and Chris Claremont created the first openly gay superhero in mainstream comics Northstar because they wanted to queer representation in their X-Men books. Despite pushback by Jim Shooter, Byrne was eventually able to portray him as gay (as originally intended) by 1983 pic.twitter.com/hvtWRG7m8A
— Lord Edge (@cgd0911) February 16, 2024
Los X-Men, desde el renacimiento del 75, siempre han ido de fetiches, sexo y perversiones. Claremont y Byrne estaban más salidos que el pico de una plancha. Claremont nunca ocultó su preferencia en la vida real por el bondage y la dominación. pic.twitter.com/7jpjSNL1eU
— Íñigo Rodríguez 🏳️🌈🗨 (@VanMaddle1) February 16, 2024
Spoken like someone who doesn't know what the X-Men actually stood for. They've ALWAYS BEEN WOKE. When they were initially created they were based on the civil rights movement, then queer rights in Claremont's run, and since 2000; LGBT rights. At least try to learn X-Men history
— Lyla (@Slipstrada) February 15, 2024
#Xmen97 ? Welcome to #Xmen82 ! Chris Claremont's X-Men Marvel graphic novel, God Loves Man Kills faced resistance from televangelist Pat Robertson and the #700club that year. ProfessorX, Wolverine are depicted & mutants are described as subhuman. pic.twitter.com/QQ7dhg4raA
— Alex Grand (@Comichistorians) February 17, 2024
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