November 23, 2024

Bad Takes From A Cable Artist And Videos From Cooler Dudes – #XMENMONDAY Round-Up

Zachary Jenkins010 mins

Every Monday Senior X-Men Editor Mark Paniccia answers fans questions and shares cool new art from the X-Line. We’ll be here compiling all those hints in one place, alongside the rest of the best stuff in X-Men Social media, so you don’t have to worry about missing a single second of it. This is #XMENMONDAY Round-Up

Jon Malin

Ok, let’s get the big thing out of the way. On Sunday evening CABLE artist Jon Malin posted this tweet in response to a question asking “Aren’t the X-Men LITERALLY Social Justice Warriors?”

This, pretty obviously, set the comics community ablaze. While the X-Men have often used the evils enacted on the Jewish people by Adolf Hitler as both a textual and subtextual point of comparison, implying that Nazis, a group whose core tenants included the superiority of an Aryan master race, were “social justice warriors” is both offensive and laughably missing the point. The X-Men, who have been used to talk about Civil Rights, the Apartheid, AIDs, and LGBTQ issues are firmly entrenched on the side of social justice, regardless on if “SJW” has become an inflammatory term or not. At best, this is a bad take, something even Ethan Van Sciver admitted when Malin discussed this with him in a live chat early Monday morning.

From that interview, Malin also shared these gems of wisdom

The bias against straight white men in the industry is clear. I don’t have to prove this.

I don’t know that SJW’s would even get so far as to gas chamber people, but their goals are essentially the same.

We are castrating a book like Cable because some Social Justice Warrior can’t handle a boob on the cover?

Malin is not solicited for any work with Marvel after CABLE #154 next month. He has indicated that he is focusing on creator-owned work for the time being. If you want the X-Office to know your feelings about Malin working on X-Men in the future, email them at OfficeX@Marvel.com and let them know.

Now onto the fun stuff!

Where’s Waldo

We know where Mark Paniccia is today, at a summit planning the next big thing at Marvel. Becuase of that I wouldn’t expect a big #XMENMONDAY from him. If I turn out to be wrong, well that is what the edit button is for.

On Monday it was announced that Jim Zub would be taking over CHAMPIONS with a revamped line-up. Ominously O5 Cyclops is not on the team any longer. Could this mean big changes for the time-displaced teens?

With many fans wondering where she is, DOMINO writer Gail Simone shared where Dazzler would appear next and teased a new look

Artist Alley

X-MEN: RED artist Mahmud Asar shared the character design sheet for Namor, showing many options for what the Prince of Atlantis could have looked like in this book. While most have them have too little bare chest by half, it is interesting to see how the style evolved.

Kelly Thompson showed us some of Pere Perez’s art for ROGUE & GAMBIT #2

Thor artist Russell Dauterman also shared this amazing Rogue drawing!

Ed Piskor also shared a sneak peek at what Kitty Pryde will look like in X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN

For his part, NEW MUTANTS: DEAD SOULS artist Adam Gorham let us know that apperently Orcs will play a part in what promises to be a buck wild book.

Sina Grace showed a sketch of a fashion-forward Michaela from his ICEMAN run.

EXILES artist Javier Rodriguez gave us a look at a joyful Wolvie

Family Video

We got a lot of process video’s this week from Sina, GENERATION X Colorist Felipe Sobreiro, and OLD MAN LOGAN artist Dalibor Talajić‏

That’s what we got this week! See you next #XMENMONDAY

Zachary Jenkins

Zachary Jenkins co-hosts the podcast Battle of the Atom and is the former editor-in-chief of ComicsXF. Shocking everyone, he has a full and vibrant life outside all this.

Related News