I just finished reading the Grant Morrison run of New X-Men (3 volumes). I don’t really know much about X-Men, other than what I’ve seen in the movies. I enjoyed reading this, and I have great respect for Morrison’s writing. His creativity is amazing.

If I were back in college studying communication, I would write a thesis on how comic books in general, and the X-Men in particular, are like soap operas. X-Men is especially soapy, with all the angst and love triangles and whatnot.

Interesting sidenote…when I was just out of college, I started writing (and later abandoned) something about a group of teenagers with psychic abilities, who were attending a special school for the “gifted”. Hmmm…