Meanwhile, a "mutie" is murdered on the streets of the Lower East Side of New York City in an obvious hate crime and the aforementioned advocating of "mutant deportations" by Nance is prompted by the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants announcement that they've taken the mayor of New York prisoner "in the war that has been waged between Homo Sapiens and and Homo Superior for decades" mirroring Jihadist terrorist activities.

All of this reads as incredibly "liberal" to the conservative reader and smacks of social justice storytelling. I'm not complaining, and I'm overjoyed to have my previous rant proven wrong. It appears that Marvel Comics is not abandoning their social justice story lines. Maybe, they are just re-branding them...

Think about it. The X-Men ARE being portrayed as heroes and not just as being a "struggling minority fighting for their very existence." They are standing up to hard right fascists. They are not in danger of being eradicated. They are actually stronger than they've been in several years, more in the public eye than they've been in several years, and are the heroic progressive heroes battling the evil fascist "conservatives."

I can't believe I'm saying this, but...well done Marvel. Well done. You had me fooled. The social justice story lines apparently will continue...just more explicitly as good vs. evil tales than even before. The hard right "conservatives" are the bad guys. Although, I'd like to think that real conservatives would consider these hard righties as not true conservatives.

Now, I've gotta read issue #3 and see if this anti-rant holds up, or Marvel Comics is just behaving in a bi-polar way to garner sales...