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Well, it did occur to me that that's Grants pop-comics thing all over, isn't it? It seems to me he wants to redefine the language of comics, make them faster, more condensed - txt-mssgy. A new, speededup approach for the internet/mobile generation. It's all about the kids for him atta moment, innit? Horusey. And X-Men's all "how do we channel this energy? What do we do w/ it?" - the school completely. Prior to Grant's run the X brand owed its bespandexed shape more to Superman (and the aspirations of the 50's) than to the weird, other, polymorphous mutations it's 1960's incarnation aspired to. X-Men was (as Mr. Fear has pointed out), until recently, a fairly standard, conventional, coca-colaey kinda sigil - hence Grant's rapid injection of nanosentinels, dead Magnetos, trans-humanism, polymorphously perverse sexuality, radical utopianism.....
The things wriggling, it's started to move...
Whether or not Grant'll succeed in warping the books/industry's memeplex (a la Gideon spraying 'King Mob' on the police van) remains to be seen. It may turn out, on closer inspection, that he only succeed's in reinforcing all sorts of redundant/dangerous/boring norms/values/narratives afterall. I'm sure, by the time his run is over, there'll be all sorts of well thought out arguments for and against. And maybe the book'll just fail to make any kind of impact on the kid's heads - maybe the mutations'll fail to mutate. Maybe none of it matters anyway (afterall, I'm just stoned and rambling. Don't listen to me).
But kudos to the scottish nutter for trying. |
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