Heroes of X - Debut X-Men Column with Comics Bookcase

I’m writing a new bimonthly (twice a month) column about the X-Men of Marvel Comics. Check out the debut entry in the series over at Comics Bookcase! Here’s an excerpt below, hit the link to read the whole piece.

When HOX/POX was initially released, I hadn’t been collecting weekly comics for about a decade, my own lost decade if you will. I grew up as a lonely little queer child in Texas who sucked at sports and loved horror films, so naturally I saw myself in the ragtag community of misfits that were the X-Men. I would frequent my local suburban comic shop, Cybersen, on a weekly basis to collect my pull as my mom watched from the designated “parent’s chair” that she insisted the owner supply after our first few visits. 

During this era in the ‘90s, X-Men: The Animated Series was a hit and most kids my age knew the X-Men but not like I did. Long boxes and huge Rubbermaid bins of action figures filled my closet and dreams of mutant powers inundated my imagination. I was a special kind of lonely, the kind that comes from being born a dangerous kind of different. Early in life I knew I was queer and had the inklings of my abstract gender, I believed that I truly did not belong amongst my peers, so I must clearly have been a mutant.

Bi-Monthly X-Men column Heroes of X and History of X debuts on Comics Bookcase!