5: Working Alongside – “Individuality leads to nothing but trouble in X-Men.” – Grant Morrison. 2) – Biology, appearance, self-image, sexuality, psychology, disability, spirituality, and metaphysics in New X-Men. Coloring, art, sartorial and writing techniques to promote freshness. 3: New As Brand – The difference between being new and feeling new. Why we remember lies & misunderstandings better than we understand truths and revelations, in fiction and outwith.
2: We Remember the Lies – Magneto and Xorn. What Grant Morrison & their collaborators inherited as the state of X-Men comics. 1: What Came Before – A hit movie, a superhero possessed by a monster, an endless Charles Xavier/Magneto fight. Here’s every chapter of Examining New X-Men: Tackling multiple angles social, contextual, sentimental, metatextual. Twenty years later, Examining New X-Men has been a weekly column that turned into a book, and that took as its purpose to dig deep into the politically savvy, fashion-forward superhero soap opera that is New X-Men. From 2001 to 2004 Grant Morrison ( The Invisibles, Batman and Robin) and team of pencilers, inkers, letterers, editors and colorists, including Phil Jimenez, Mike Marts, and Frank Quitely made a comic called New X-Men.
