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Sunday Trending Topics: The Politics of X-Men

Published Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:12:36 -0600

Last updated Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:12:48 -0600

Reading Mark Haverty's Uncanny X-Men #1 review today, and reflecting on some of the comics that have made mainstream-news headlines over the past year, it's interesting to note that the decades-long ebb and flow of comics' engagement with political and social subjects of the times is once again on the rise. And with the civilian audience noticing, you can feel that feedback loop closing and propelling the whole thing forward. Yet another reason 2012 is going to be an interesting year in comics.

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