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A carregar... X-Men Red Vol. 1: The Hate Machine (X-Men Red (2018))por Tom Taylor, Mahmud Asrar (Ilustrador)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Summer 2019; - Review for X-Men: Red Vol. 1 and 2 With the world in the swing of releasing the newest Dark Phoenix movie, Comixology turned itself toward a large 70% sale of all the most important Jean Grey/Phoenix series, which gave me the 'far too cheap to pass up' excuse to finally pick up and read X-Men: Red. These books pick up shortly after Phoenix Ressurection: The Return of Jean Grey, which was the reason I held off. I still have some very defined (and rather not pleased, if you remember my review) opinions about how that whole piece went. Returning Jean Grey, but dismissing The Phoenix from Jean and the X-Men books for a while. X-Men: Red, even though it must play by those rules, came out of the dark and clocked me with such surprise. Jean in these books is everything I originally fell in love with her for, during the actual Phoenix/Dark Phoenix, X-Factor, Onslaught, main books post-Xavier. She's mature, wise, driven, dedicated, and she's pursuing the greatest dream of, as non-violent as possible, peace as the X-Men books have yet to show. She's all heart, from the youngest of mutants who don't mean what they are doing to rulers who have recently killed some of her most dear family members to her actual nemesis. Jean's dream of no more division, no more war, no more 'us and them, only 'us,'' is grand, sweeping, and leaves no one behind, no matter their present or current circumstances and choices. Her interactions with Gabby are a heart-lightening constant throughout the short series, as well as her ones with Gabby & Laurel together, with her alternate timeline daughter, Rachel Grey, and her best friend across mot books, Ororo Monroe. These books are made of all heart, and it likes to showcase it in several dozen ways all at once, showing you that love has very few, if any, true limits. The art, also, is gorgeous, and while there are some gratuitous cleavage shots (in costume and professional wear) that annoyed me, in general, Jean's clothing choices as being very normal and down to earth were a massive breath of fresh air. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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"Jean Grey is back - with her own team of X-Men! Reborn into a world she doesn't recognize, Jean gathers allies old and new - including Nightcrawler, Namor and the All-New Wolverine - to face an evil that threatens to tear down Xavier's dream by any means necessary! The red squad must infiltrate a top-secret compound in order to save a mutant they've never met. They'll have to avoid guards armed with high-tech guns, protestors armed with burning hate, and Sentinels armed with...even bigger and more dangerous guns than the guards. All in a day's work for the X-Men! But as battle rages in India, the newest recruit may be the key to the whole team's survival! Gambit fi nds himself caught up the intensifying global frenzy of mutant hate - but could one of Jean's oldest friends turn foe?"--Amazon. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Ok, now the meat
Casandra Nova is straight up Cambridge Analytica (the consulting firm, partially owned by Steve Bannon, that harvested a ton of data from Facebook through loopholes and questionable means, and then was paid by the furthest fringes of Right Wing politics to use that data for micro-targeted advertising to (provably, like, this 100% happened) sway the 2016 UK Brexit vote and the 2016 US Presidential Election. They did this. In the UK, they did this literally illegally as the Leave campaign was found guilty of funnelling money to CA through subsidiaries to try to get around Campaign Finance Laws. They got caught, but it didn't matter, they'd already won and a re-vote was never called.
And in this comic, that actual company who was paid to manipulate people towards hate and intolerance, is replaced with a telepath using nano sentinels and implanted thoughts to force people into hate and rage against mutants. Fine right? It's a superhero comic, there needs to be something to fight! You can't punch the abstract concept of radicalisation. Well, I mean, you kind of can? And that Nazi fuckwad deserved that punch and 100000 more. But the problem with this, is by making it nano sentinels forcing people into these actions, you're taking away culpability for what they did. You're implying that the people radicalised by CA, by the alt-right, by gamergate and every other radicalisation pipeline that now exists and is recruiting all over social media... you're implying that those people aren't responsible for the things they do and say once they've drunk the Nazi kool-aid.
And that's bullshit. Total, complete horseshit. It's even worse when the arc ends with Jean being all "fight hate with love". It's centrist crap like that that opened the door for January 6th and has left the politicians who incited that insurrection in office with no consequences.
But the worst part? Issue #3. Gambit is in Louisiana at an anti-mutant protest. Except it's not just an anti-mutant protest. It's 100% the Charlottesville tiki Nazi demonstration, just moved to Louisiana and now about Mutants instead of Jews and other minorities. Like, there's no question that's what they're referencing. There's a bunch of white people in polo shirts and khakis carrying tiki torches! And one of them, in a car, murders a mutant in cold blood. Yeah, sure, he shoots her instead of running her over, but this is so obviously a direct allegory for the murder of Heather Heyer that making it so the man who murdered her was being controlled by a machine embedded in his brain against his will? Yeah, that's some grade A centrist nonsense right there.
And it sucks! I LOVED Jean in this until the very end. I LOVE Honey Badger always and forever, and she's great in this! And calls Namor ABS-LANTIS! Taylor clearly loves these characters and has their voices and characterisations down cold. If only the world hadn't gotten so much worse because of the same "don't punch Nazis" style rhetoric that this book ends up promoting, maybe I could just love it how the little girl in me who always wanted to be Jean Grey desperately wants to love it.
And yeah, comics are supposed to be aspirational and idealistic and show us heroes who can solve the problems that feel too big for us. But when Marvel had just that same year turned Captain America - a Jewish power fantasy created by two Jews to push the US into WWII that they were happy to profit from and stay out of - into a Nazi in Secret Empire, it just feels hollow for the book pushing that's ostensibly pushing back against that hate and aggression to have the moral of "well, can't we all just get along?" "just hug it out!" "when they go low, we go high!" etc. It's just... yeah
This got long and ranty. I wish I could love this book. I WANT to love this book. It has the heart of a book I'd love to read, but the message at the end just isn't the correct response to these situations. ( )