{"id":128034,"date":"2015-09-17T10:22:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/17\/mutants-vs-inhumans-fight.html"},"modified":"2015-09-18T10:34:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T16:34:32","slug":"mutants-vs-inhumans-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/17\/mutants-vs-inhumans-fight.html","title":{"rendered":"Mutants vs Inhumans! FIGHT!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supposedly Ike Perlmutter is supposed to be the mad \/ financial genius behind deemphasizing the properties that Marvel doesn't have movie rights to, which tells me much of what I need to know about any artistic merit in the idea.<\/p>\n

That said, the chance to prune the X-universe back a bit from the cruft it's accumulated over the last three decades is not necessarily a bad idea, regardless of the strategic motivation.<\/p>\n

The pages shown in the article don't strike me as particularly well-written, though. Given that "mutants" and "inhumans" both tend to look outre<\/i> to humans, why are only mutants being persecuted? What's the time frame in which this whole "mutants are now sterile" idea is coming from? Since when are mutants primarily being born of … well, mutants, vs from, you know, being mutations<\/i> from normal human stock? Further, what does "mutants are sterile" really mean, given how genetics work and that we are all<\/i> mutants in some fashion.<\/p>\n

But I digress. Conceptually the idea that the mutant population is under existential siege in some way is neither radically new nor all that disturbing, and has the potential to be a good thing, just as it was in previous outings.<\/p>\n

Like most things, I guess we'll see. If the stories backing up this new ostensible strategy are good ones, then I'll be happy. If it really plays like marketing-fobbed-off-as-art, it will be an opportunity to reduce my comic book budget. Win-win either way.<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +Les Jenkins<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I can't blame them. They're going to have a lot riding on The Inhumans movie when it arrives so I'd expect they'd try to make them front and center.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nInhumans Killing X-Men in the Comics<\/a><\/span>
\nA new Marvel Comics storyline has the Inhumans killing X-Men. Is this a response to the rivalry between Marvel Studios and 20th Century Fox?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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