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Introducing E For Evolution: X-Amining Grant Morrison's X-Men
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In 2001, Grant Morrison took the reins of the X-Men comics and began a run that remains controversial and impactful to this day. Now 20 years later, three X-fans look back on his run, going issue-by-issue and discussing it in depth.
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Generational Conflict in X-Men
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The X-Men became a boot. It was actually adults versus children because I felt that the whole thrust of the X-Men was actually a bit of a generational thing that people dislike their children because new ways of looking at things and adults kind of don't like that because it's threatening to them. So I saw the X-Men as being a boot and basically that's where we took it in that direction. Basically
X-Men's Impact on Hollywood
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the war between adults and youth.
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In the year 2000, X-Men took the box office by storm, igniting Hollywood's love affair with superhero movies and introducing these concepts to people who had never before read a comic book.
Challenges in X-Men Comics
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But over at Marvel, the X-Men comics had been mired in stagnation and so steeped in continuity for about a decade. So much so that it became too intimidating for any new readers. Then in 2001,
Morrison's Revamp and Controversy
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Grant Morrison took the reins of the X-Men and began a run that dramatically altered the status quo. The spandex costumes, recycled villains, and continuity references were replaced by black leather, unique threats for a new millennium, and super consistency.
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The experiment proved controversial, and fans to this day are sharply divided over whether they loved or hated it, and many of the echoes of Morrison's work continue to reverberate even in the present titles. Now, 20
E4Evolution Podcast: Revisiting Morrison
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years later, 3X fans take a look back at this seminal run, going issue by issue and reminiscing over how these issues hit at the time, and how they read all these years later.
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Don't miss E4Evolution, examining Grant Morrison's X-Men, available at e4evolution.transistor.fm, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.