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In the current market there are no guarentees, and new titles need all the help they can get to survive their first year (or two if the comic has got its editors' support)...
But yes, District X. I picked up Strange Embrace from Dave Hine last year at a comic convention on a whim. It impressed me enough that when I saw that Hine was slated to write one of the reloaded titles my curiosity was piqued...
Forget continuity. District X isn't about an x-man from an alternative future - its a comic about the disenfranchised and marginalised - its stars are ordinary people, poor people eking out their marginal existence, often in the shadow of hideous and debilitating mutations.
Policing areas such as this are always problematic, and when you add in mutants into the mix its just another turn of the screw... As Bishop says in one issue - any crime in district X, the mutant Ghetto, effect public perceptions of mutants making the overt comparison between blackness and mutant status.
One of the current storylines has two criminal gangs vying for the monopoly of district x's hottest new drug, toad tabs. Toad tabs are based on the sweat of another poor mutant. Bishop is desperate to avoid innocent people getting caught in the crossfire of a gang war and news headlines that again link mutants to crime. But the focus is always on the ordinary people who have to live,love and make a living in the mutant ghetto.
Outside of Hine's script, there are a few problems with the comic, the glossy paper doesn't suit the dull squallor that typifies the mutant ghetto, - the colouring lacks subtlety and the artwork is often stilted and the panel transitions are not as smooth as the could be. But despite all this, and outside of the soon-to-be cancelled X-statix this comic has to be one of the most interesting x-titles out there... |
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