The Claremont Runさんのイラストまとめ

Jubilee, as an Asian-American visiting Asia, is forced to cope quite directly with the complex intersections of cultural heritage and nationalistic identity. 7/9

None of this is to say that the lighthouse was integrated into story planning with these relationships in mind, just that not all settings are created equal, and the Excalibur lighthouse offers a number of key resonances that make for enhanced dramatic storytelling. 10/10

Perhaps most obviously, the lighthouse creates a spatial configuration that helps to define the character’s relationships to each other within the series. It squishes them together, creating a forced intimacy that symbolizes the interior struggle of the new team to unite. 9/10

Outside of this, the lighthouse connotes a number of symbols that greatly enhance Excalibur themes, such as: trans-Atlanticism; the hope of finding your way through rough seas at dark times; and the fundamental isolation implicit in the mutant metaphor. 6/10

Building on this, Claremont and (especially) Davis would later use this aspect to symbolize Brian’s sense of being put-upon with Excalibur, of the inconvenience and intrusion the new characters represent to his nest, and possibly even the threat to his relationship w Meggan. 4/10

It has been argued that a lot of the best and most memorable Excalibur scenes take place at home. If true, the nature and potential for spatial metaphors created by the Excalibur lighthouse may play an important role in enhancing key themes of the series #xmen @GoshGollyWow 1/10

“…and with the lack of useful ordering information for retailers, such that store owners were taking gambles with the number of copies to pre-order. Hall argues that this process makes it so comic companies can use the direct market system to ‘factor out most of the risk.’” 7/9

“X-Men #1 continues to haunt bargain bins partly because, as [Chuck] Rozanski claims, there are so many copies of it that it will be some 30 years before the issue’s value has increased to anything close to even its cover price.” 3/9

“Superman’s death in Superman #75 (Jan. 1993) was more memorable to the general public, and McFarlane’s Spawn or Spider-Man titles were probably more influential, yet X-Men #1 retains a certain derelict omnipresence in all its five alternate cover glory.” 2/9

In ”Sexy Art, Speculative Commerce: The X-Men #1 Launch Extravaganza,” authors Timothy Elliott and Robert Dennis Watkins provide an insightful hindsight perspective on the X-Men v2 launch and its unique place within a “dark age” of comics history. #xmen 1/9