![]() ![]() And the ways depowered mutants fought to be relevant and important when there was no way they could truly fight. They were about the kinship between fellow mutants when so many were no longer mutants. Storylines for nearly a decade until Jonathan Hickman’s Dawn of X, were about mutants searching for hope and answers when there were none. That’s how it felt in the storylines that followed House of M, at least the ones that were well-thought out.īut the true insulting nature of this idea and story never quite hit me before reading this book. What if people who were gay were made straight with three words, or black people made white, or women made into men. ![]() It had ended with nearly all mutants on Earth becoming human, in what I could only assume was a symbolic allegory for what if minorities were stripped of what made them minorities. Before that I only read the big Marvel Event here and there.Įven then, House of M was a storyline that the X-Men and mutants couldn’t escape. I even didn’t start reading Marvel comics until the All-New All-Different relaunch. I’ve always loved the X-Men but I didn’t start reading comics until DC’s New 52 reboot. House of M is a story that has defined the X-Men since before I started avidly reading comics. Spoilers for House of M, written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by Olivier Coipel. Tags: Avengers, comic book reviews, Marvel, X-Men House of M: A Past Best Forgotten ![]()
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