Ultimate X-Men - The 2001 Reboot Of Marvel’s Mutants

About this episode

This episode explores the 2001 reboot of Marvel's X-Men franchise through the lens of social and political themes.

The 90's were a bad decade for Marvel's Mutants, and it took some seismic changes and bold creative risks to save the franchise, the biggest being the 2001 reboot of the franchise - Ultimate X-Men! Marvel Comics hit the reset button and created a brand new imagining of Xavier, Magneto, Wolverine, Cyclops, Jean Grey, and the rest of the X-Men’s huge cast of characters. Mark Millar and Andy Kubert re-imagined Marvel’s mutants and positioned them in the middle of a world in the shadow of the 9/11 attacks and waging a war that violated a lot of personal rights. Social and political satire wrapped up in a sci-fi package! Every month on Patreon we take a special deep-dive into a Marvel comic book, event, or timeline to examine all the highs and lows of the Marvel Universe. To celebrate our 6th Anniversary we’re releasing this episode from behind the paywall. For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.comhttps://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvelhttps://twitter.com/marvelversushttps://twitter.com/robhaldenhttps://robhalden.comhttps://will-preston.co.uk

People in this episode

Host: marvelversusmarvel

Topics covered

• Ultimate X-Men
• 2001 reboot
• Marvel mutants
• social satire
• political commentary
• comic book analysis

Keywords

• Ultimate X-Men
• Marvel Comics
• Mark Millar
• Andy Kubert
• X-Men
• reboot
• 9/11
• social satire
• political commentary

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Organizations: Marvel Comics

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