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Mutants as a Metaphor for Immigration? Uncanny X-Men: Winter's End #1

We're all used to seeing the X-Men comics used to metaphorically address a lot of real-world issues. Mutants as a metaphor for racism. Mutants as a metaphor for homophobia. But in Uncanny X-Men: Winter's End, mutants become a metaphor for… immigrants experiencing xenophobia? Well, of all the phobias, this one at least does start with an X!

It all begins in this preview of next week's issue, which sees the titular Iceman helping out with some disaster relief. Surely, that's something everyone can get behind, right? Well, not this guy…

And he has a reason for it, as irrational as it is: he fears that mutants are trying to steal his job! That's what they call "economic anxiety," right?

Fortunately, Iceman has no time for this nonsense. This is his last solo special, after all…

Notice, he left him on the roof.

This preview was an EX-X-XCLUSIVE from Adventures in Poor Taste, as the watermarks demonstrate. Damn, first X-Men Monday, now this?!

Uncanny X-Men: Winter's End #1 hits stores next Wednesday.

Uncanny X-Men: Winter's End #1
(W) Sina Grace (A) Nathan Stockman (CA) Javi Garron
Iceman and the X-Men get a special visitor from the future! An older Bobby Drake has come to the present to tell him to give up being a super hero. But what could have happened that would change Bobby Drake from the X-Men's resident jokester to a morose mutant?
Rated T+
In Shops: Mar 13, 2019
SRP: $4.99

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