Cultural and racial minorities often go hand and hand. So the point still stands. And even within the gay community, I happen to be that as well, there exists racial lines so its really not possible to avoid that.

And your last cheeky lil comment exemplifies my problems with the analysis of New X-Men.

And frankly, as an African American male I’m disgusted by the idea that Morrison is the X-Writer the majority of comic fans think got the minority metaphor right.

I think that’s because you seem to assume he was writing about racial minorities… he wasn’t.

He focused it more on cultural minorities, with a big emphasis on gays and gay culture – and the point seemed to be that they weren’t a minority, they were actually taking over the mainstream.

And it doesn’t suprise me that alot of his white fandom is loving the run because it feeds into white misconceptions about minorities and uplifts those misconceptions to a level of “coolness”.

I think you need to get past the colour of your skin, that’s so 20th century, and New X-men is 21st century!

As for the whole minority thing, I am that black person that keeps getting mentioned in this conversation about Morrison’s New X-Men and subculture. And frankly, as an African American male I’m disgusted by the idea that Morrison is the X-Writer the majority of comic fans think got the minority metaphor right. Personally, I don’t think a single writer has ever really hit on it, but if people think Morrison was the closest…dear lord. Morrison’s mutants were drug users, pathetically poor, partiers, caused alot of public damage, and didn’t seem to do much actual improving. Is that what people think of when they hear minorities?

Maybe they do. Because that’s what Morrison often comes off to me as on a personal level. The guy trying to hard to get in with the “cool, avant garde” crowd. So it doesn’t surprise me that his white interpretation of what it means to be a minority shows minorities in anything but a positive light. And it doesn’t suprise me that alot of his white fandom is loving the run because it feeds into white misconceptions about minorities and uplifts those misconceptions to a level of “coolness”.

http://www.berkeleyplaceblog.com/2009/11/09/the-greatest-comic-books-of-the-decade-part-four-2005/

Because comic also means comedian?

I mean I figured you’d have to be a moron to start a Princess Diana Memorial society, but that’s beyond moronic… it’s…. I don’t even know that we have a word for stupidity on that level.

Re: Morrison: after I finished his run (just this year — I read my fill of X-Men in the 1990′s and it took about a decade for people to convince me that no, it really wasn’t that awful anymore), my first thought was that what he’d really added that the series had been lacking was subtlety. Where its stock-in-trade had been heavyhanded allegory since Claremont, Morrison managed a deep and nuanced portrayal of the characters and premise. Hell, he even did stories with shades of Columbine and 9/11 that weren’t overbearing — a far cry from the Legacy Virus.

Of course, it appears that we’ve got some guys in the comments thread here who’d rather go back to those days. No accounting for taste, I suppose. (Hell, if the Spidey books can bring Ben Reilly back…seriously, has so much time passed that people are actually NOSTALGIC for that garbage?)

What if you had a love for Diana and have less than half a brain?

[facepalm] Oh good grief.