Figured I'd get ahead of things and post this sooner rather than later.

This is the front cover to a new X-Men comic called 'Bishop: War College'.

The basic premise is: Bishop is the current "Captain Commander" of the mutant nation of Krakoa after Cyclops stood down to join the active roster of X-Men.

In order to prep various younger mutants Bishop has been set the task of "preparing them for war", hence the comic title.

Now, first things first.

The art is horrendous.

Hill can't draw faces.

Bishop's powers are meant to be "power absorption and redirection". This means he can take in energy and send it out in various ways, either directly or use it to power up an energy gun as would often happen in the comics, cartoons, and even the Days of Future Past movie at the start before everyone died.

Going by this comic Bishop's powers seem to be "more teeth".

For those who don't know who Bishop is, he comes from the future, it's hell, mutants are hunted, Bishop was even part of the teams doing the hunting. So he's probably an awful choice for teaching kids how to fight.

Which he gets called out on.

Anyway, a modern comic with a black lead wouldn't be anything with a suitable villain and in this case that takes the form of Andrea and Andreas Von Strucker, because evil whites who are also Nazis is just too tempting to pass up for modern writers when the protag is black, despite said protag having a history of enslaving, murdering, and attempting to kill a baby for years.

On top of that this wouldn't be a modern Marvel comic without "appropriate" representation of other minorities that are now so prevelant when the general public are asked about just what proportion they make up it's always over-estimated.

So first of all there's the whiny lesbian couple who are of course also interracial, although one of them is blue so who knows what she looked like beforehand. Ironically they almost fight about things because remember lesbian relationships still have the highest reported incidence rates of domestic abuse when compared to any other types of relationship, but still make up with a lesbian kiss that might border more on zoophilia given the appearance of one of the two, that takes up almost half the page.

Similarly there is either a non-binary or very effeminate male which further highlights just how bad the art is in this.

Seriously, look at this lineup, one of those five is meant to be a guy and you might have trouble picking out which one it is.

And of course there's the potential romance angle thrown in, or at least heavy flirting, that comes from a black lesbian last time anyone saw her, but Bishop is just that good he turns even the lesbian's heads!

Any-fucking-way. That's just the issues with the initial comic, the point of the thread title, and cover page, is this.

Due to plot reasons Bishop gets into a fight with the Von Strucker twins, the black lesbian, [the second one in the issue not the whiny, wingy one with the massive afro that would kill a stunt rider], uses her time powers and an explosion happens. Bishop then wakes up in front of the X-Mansion except when he sees "Cyclops" and "Jean Grey" both of them are very obviously black. Much like on the cover page which also makes Wolverine black and every other character.

Ironically because Beast, Iceman, and Colossus all have non natural skin tones the artist had to exaggerate the facial features of the characters so that people would know they were black.

There are several possible reasons for what has happened to Bishop which range from "X-MEN, BUT BLACK!" to "he's dreaming because he thought all the X-Men were black originally because as a child he was told stories of them and like many dumb children filled in gaps where there were none".

Regardless of what the outcome is this is a retarded comic.

Edit: And for anyone wondering, no I don't buy these. 🏴‍☠️