In Week 9, I discussed the link between “the mutant metaphor” and 1950s and 1960s science-fiction. One of the most important of these links was the overwhelming presence of the nuclear threat in the ...

In his sixteen-year tenure of the X-line, Chris Claremont put his own spin on the mutant metaphor any number of ways, but one of the longest-lasting and most influential has been the idea of a Mutant ...

“You were never my age professor. 16 million mutants died in Genosha while you were planning new ways to do nothing.” All images are taken from “Riot at Xavier’s” New X-Men #135-138 (2002), Written by ...