Marvel's X-Men: Broad Street Notebook

A Story by Abishai100

Diorama descriptive of the uncanny Marvel franchise and why/how it's offered Earthling-IQ for juries-of-Babylon.

X-Men (Marvel Comics) has become such an iconic comic-arts inspired mega franchise in the West, with video-games and cartoons and big budget American films, I wanted to explore how this lush storytelling 'medium' offers something truly lush to the civilization concept of mutations/presence/powers driven leadership and villainy qualia (for that 'art' of muscle jardinieres/gardens). Merry Xmas, all (thanks for reading).

DISCLAIMER: This work of media characterization claims no official market representation for the Marvel company or its associations/characters and is cast as a personal 'academic' view of the relevance/placement of its avatars and broad intentionality (for open translation/review).

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Something the X-Men mega-franchise offered us in modern time, with its broad focus on mutants and villains and do-gooder self-growth and senses of leadership and anarchy for teams of black-and-white heroics or super human Earth threats is that comic-art view of non-human enterprise and psychic-powers driven Earthling fascination with 'alien' intelligence/beauty. The X-Men avatars each present special/unique qualities of intelligence or insanity and fitness or vanity for heroes/villains in the universe of mutant (secret) clubs. We may look at the contour shape/look of varied X-Men avatars as proportional to civilization storyboard views of both leadership and larceny.

ARTEMISIA: Antiheroine ancient (Greek/Spartan) war-myths character from recent film adaptations of that story-rich 'universe' who offered us special views on civilization symbols of femme-adversary hands for language richness of social choreography in power-wars and nation-vanity.

MYSTIQUE: Shape-shifting eerie villainess from Marvel's X-Men offerings creating for much infiltration and diabolical antisocial intelligence and power-complement to her villainy-mutant force devoted to making democracy-fencing in Earth world a thing of high tedium/bedlam.

ACHILLES: Ill-fated mighty battlefield ancient Greek war-legend in fabled engagements between storied forces/armies, apparently real/historical, with a fatal-flaw leading to a tragic demise and eventual war-iconography richness for war-and-peace storytellers.

WOLVERINE: Brooding wolf-sense enhanced Marvel X-Men hero-character with protruding lengthening steel-titanium claw-blades used to accent his physical muscle and will to scratch-and-wrestle with the more villainous mutants of Earth so as to defend the democratic views of Earthling charms of ambitious (if hard-won) power/governance image.

What makes X-Men 'stuff' so image-rich for adventure and contest storytelling and video-games and kid-stickers and fun film experiences for holiday-shopping, etc., is its 'uncanny' expressions of personality driven super-powers and psychic ability fantasy for human-genome mutation storytelling concerning democracy and villainy. The characters, heroes and villains, each marshaled by personal forces of motivation and ethos, reflect our Selfie-lifestyle civilization of traffic/culture oriented Blue Planet masks of behavior and simple (or cute!) ambition.

I recount the early '90s offerings of rich and bright X-Men comics issues complementing a surfacing/burgeoning TV-cartoon driven franchise expansion of richness for stories/characters of mutations and magic and heroism and villainy for democracy/anarchy superstitions for modern times. This quickly expanded/enhanced into 21st-Century broad experimentation of how live-action storytelling/movie-making would spice our reflexes and social media/Internet era curiosity about the ghost-magic of mind sensitivity concerning electric energy technology flowery and spiritual backlash of innate 'instinct' driven mutations/powers like Earthling evolution! In deeds, these X-Man characters/avatars, heroes and villains, have given us a special chemical-lab tablet for all things Jabberwocky, which is why perhaps we anticipate more and more stories and fantasies about transformative Blue Planet juice (or physical hyperbole!) for science.