tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post4620861629352982253..comments2024-02-25T05:24:24.948-05:00Comments on Beyond Easy: Peter David's X-Factor: 20 best momentsPatrick Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02410016566636603639noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-62568085313023929782020-08-13T04:19:19.381-04:002020-08-13T04:19:19.381-04:00Man, I can't even conceive of a return to the ...Man, I can't even conceive of a return to the pre-Krakoa baseline, and I doubt there's much appetite for it. The last decade was an object lesson in how stale the old status quo had grown. I'm hoping this sticks for a good long while, because they've finally got new stories to tell.<br /><br />I can appreciate why some people are put off by the tribal/cultish aspects of the new mutant nation, but I'm usually only bothered when a non-Hickman writer has an X-person talking about humans the way college-aged Tumblr people used to snark about "cishets." I still think that part of what we're seeing here is a fictional unpacking of some of the implications of the radical separatism that some folks are advocating in the real world. It's probably impossible to build an identitarian society that's not insular, chauvinistic, and/or resentful of outsiders. But at the same time, its members probably have a higher happiness quotient than us atomized members of civil society.Patrick Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02410016566636603639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972120889629675714.post-2755950735095104032020-07-29T16:56:48.744-04:002020-07-29T16:56:48.744-04:00Ah, glad your still ok, its fine to bring up some ...Ah, glad your still ok, its fine to bring up some fun stuff with so much bleak stuff going on in the world these days. <br /><br />Mostly, I just wonder if everyone in X-Factor will be full cult along with all the other X -men and if it will stay that way, depends on how this acid trip all ends for the mutants though. Ah well in the meanwhile hope your book editing is going well. Darth Sephirothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12550948373161407072noreply@blogger.com