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A review by captwinghead
House of M by Brian Michael Bendis
3.0
This is an interesting story, but I think about what it seems to imply and I'm scratching my head a bit.
As Deadpool has said, the X-Men are an outdated metaphor for minorities. Mutants have been treated poorly their entire lives and are largely in the minority. Here, Wanda creates an alternate reality wherein the mutants were (and I'm not entirely clear on this) the majority and/or the superiors? So, naturally, that means they rule and homo sapiens are discriminated against, treated as lesser than and praised when they manage to be great despite that.
I'm not sure the message here? Given the chance, mutants would treat homo sapiens as poorly as they've been treated? Yikes... having grown up in TX and hearing all about people worrying about POC "taking over"... this story is a little questionable.
Anyway, on its face, it's an interesting concept. In this world, Carol's a big name superhero (despite being homo sapien), Beast is a well renowned scientist, Hank Pym is trying to start eugenics (YIKES) and Spider-Man is a beloved superhero married to Gwen Stacy. Captain America became an old man (does that mean he never became Cap? His story is told in a tie in that didn't leave a mark on me). Tony Stark is still a rich scientist. Storm is still trying to marry T'Challa (who was dressed in African garb that I didn't understand). I don't understand why Luke Cage decides to become a gangster... but I've never really liked the way Bendis wrote Luke. Sam Wilson became a cop... okay? Not sure why. There's this conversation between them about Sam being a token human and that's... a mess.
Anyway, the Avengers and X-Men join together to fix this world because it's wrong... although, honestly, it didn't seem all that bad. The worst part to me is that Jessica Drew is belittled for suggesting that it's not that bad. Like to the extent that, if superhumans really were the minority they're supposed to be, Wolverine's words to her were not only ignorant and patronizing, they were offensive. She had every right to say "hey, a world where we're not treated like shit for changes to our DNA that we can't control might not be such a bad thing."
I didn't like the art. I really, really didn't like the art. The children werehaunting, their heads were scarily shaped and at times, they looked like Whos from Whoville. The men kind of looked like Lego bodybuilders which was strange.
Also, once again, we have a story seemingly bred out of Wanda's inability to control her powers.
Its a recommend because it's a big story for Marvel history. It brought Hawkeye back, iirc, it brought Scott Lang back, it took away a lot of mutants and their abilities, it was the catalyst for things that come later and it's the reason for people hating Wanda later on. So, it's you kinda need to know what's going on, or read Wikipedia because seriously, those children were terrifying.
As Deadpool has said, the X-Men are an outdated metaphor for minorities. Mutants have been treated poorly their entire lives and are largely in the minority. Here, Wanda creates an alternate reality wherein the mutants were (and I'm not entirely clear on this) the majority and/or the superiors? So, naturally, that means they rule and homo sapiens are discriminated against, treated as lesser than and praised when they manage to be great despite that.
I'm not sure the message here? Given the chance, mutants would treat homo sapiens as poorly as they've been treated? Yikes... having grown up in TX and hearing all about people worrying about POC "taking over"... this story is a little questionable.
Anyway, on its face, it's an interesting concept. In this world, Carol's a big name superhero (despite being homo sapien), Beast is a well renowned scientist, Hank Pym is trying to start eugenics (YIKES) and Spider-Man is a beloved superhero married to Gwen Stacy. Captain America became an old man (does that mean he never became Cap? His story is told in a tie in that didn't leave a mark on me). Tony Stark is still a rich scientist. Storm is still trying to marry T'Challa (who was dressed in African garb that I didn't understand). I don't understand why Luke Cage decides to become a gangster... but I've never really liked the way Bendis wrote Luke. Sam Wilson became a cop... okay? Not sure why. There's this conversation between them about Sam being a token human and that's... a mess.
Anyway, the Avengers and X-Men join together to fix this world because it's wrong... although, honestly, it didn't seem all that bad. The worst part to me is that Jessica Drew is belittled for suggesting that it's not that bad. Like to the extent that, if superhumans really were the minority they're supposed to be, Wolverine's words to her were not only ignorant and patronizing, they were offensive. She had every right to say "hey, a world where we're not treated like shit for changes to our DNA that we can't control might not be such a bad thing."
I didn't like the art. I really, really didn't like the art. The children werehaunting, their heads were scarily shaped and at times, they looked like Whos from Whoville. The men kind of looked like Lego bodybuilders which was strange.
Also, once again, we have a story seemingly bred out of Wanda's inability to control her powers.
Its a recommend because it's a big story for Marvel history. It brought Hawkeye back, iirc, it brought Scott Lang back, it took away a lot of mutants and their abilities, it was the catalyst for things that come later and it's the reason for people hating Wanda later on. So, it's you kinda need to know what's going on, or read Wikipedia because seriously, those children were terrifying.