With the X-Men, I found characters I’d always loved right alongside new ones to discover, terrestrial adventures alongside space-faring action. Massive variety, incredible characters, all wrapped up in a complex metaphor with real things to say about the world we live in. Of course, if you’re an X-fan, you know that the late twenty-teens were not exactly a great period for the mutant metaphor. I focused my efforts on fun x-cursions like the popular Nightcrawler mini. I made it through.