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>First of all, don't worry about new merch
I saw cool arcade cabinet of old X-Men games including the Marvel vs Capcom and it had the ugly nu season art, ugh. This kind of thing is expensive anyway, but I thought it was cool until I saw the art they use for it.
>You shouldn't be buying it anyway
I bought the Mafex Jim Lee Gambit fairly recently, he is great action figure and I'm really looking forward for their Rogue! I don't think Medicom is particularly evil, would be beyond amazing if they will able to pull proper Kirby style action figures! Their DCAU offerings are shit though (good DCAU action figures never ever, the DC Direct/McFarlane ones are meh). I will admit my sins
mostly getting Riri, she's just cool toy design unlike Miles Morales, even if her character is shit of buying few Hasbro's MLs, but I'm very nitpicky like I'm only getting pinless designs. I imagine they will never finish making OG animated X-Men designs now, Mafex still hasn't tackled it and the only option is expensive stupid Barbie size Mondo.
>politics to X-Men
You know, Kirby successfully did in Machine Man what X-Men failed to do, combining minority allegory with capeshit. Instead of being pretentious, preachy obnoxious "rubbing in your face" and having shitty "deep" political debate, he intertwined gracefully the politics with his story, in simple manner, paralleling Machine Man with minority/ies, being one of his kind, different from humans and prosecuted by the government. And while in the pics examples I gave the direct parallel is to blacks, it isn't necessarily limited to it like X-Men being almost completely, if not fully paralleled to Jews. There's no grand political debate between shitty strawmen characters, just an enjoyable story with sympathetic hero. Yes, if we take the shitlib allegory with muties, monsters, etc to its fullest, then truly minorities are destructive and dangerous and need to be physically removed. Of course I disagree with Kirby' stance, but this is well written and hence enjoyable and not cringey. Heck, I once read some alpha bet soup manga, Shimanami Tasogare, and despite my complete hatred and disgust towards faggots, I enjoyed it, because it was well written and beautifully drawn. So this is why I believe the real issue with current entertainment industry isn't that it's ruled by shitlibs, it's that it's ruled by shitty hack writers with no artistic integrity. Imagine the same quality of writing with far right politics instead of woke, it would still be insufferable cringe. If only few people can write good, imagine how even fewer people can write story with politics good.
>Stan Lee
He was mouthbreathing hack and thief. X-Men did have that allegory, but it was very vague, subtle and toned down. I haven't read much of post-Kirby drafts X-Men, but I remember they made random reference to civil rights movement which was hilarious because everyone there was still white. I know he went full politics in his shitty Silver Spoon as Dexter's lab rightfully parodied Silver Surfer.
>hard to read now
I wanted to say that Claremont' politics aged like milk, but in fact they were already complete bullshit by then. Apparently, Claremont' Magneto wasn't based on Malcolm X and Kahana, it was even dumber, he is based on Menchem Begin while Xavier is based on David Ben Gurion, their roles should've been reversed (Begin ended up as GAE Quislingstein and Ben Gurion was a racist Nigsoc), also they both were appalled by the sight of faggots. Not to mention, there was no real debate between the two as Ben Gurion ruled with an iron fist, so Claremont went full delusional with imaginary scenarios that couldn't happen like lefties do, just total lunacy and sheer ignorance by him. Must say that with this new information that Xavier and Magento are supposed to be two ugly secular Polish Jews arguing with each other, takes away almost completely the coolness that Claremont' X-Men supposed to have, it's reaching level of cringe and idiocy that shouldn't be possible. I'm just going to ignore their existence for the most part from now on while continue reading the comic.
>It should also be noted that many of his stories have nothing to do with politics
Nice, I will admit he is still leagues above the current leftie writer despite being nearly equally retarded. However, I was really disappointed to see that X-Men vol 2 isn't a reboot but spin-off of the horrible patchwork that X-Men vol 1 is, which kept switching hands between different artists and writers, it's not coherent piece at all. Furthermore, I was dumbfounded how a comic from 1991 references a comic from 1974, almost two decades apart! We need to return to the days before CCA when there was more than two main comic companies and greater variety of genres, and hopefully no shitliberalism, but that would be too much to ask.
>most acclaimed storylines in comics in general
Yeah... I don't have high opinion of big two recycled capeshit slop.