Bold Fashion Choices--Child Abuse

While the recent X-Men: Schism series revolved around the morality of making soldiers out of young mutants, the series ignored the biggest danger of allowing teens to be X-Men: the costumes!!

Travel back with me to a time when young Kitty Pryde designed her own super-hero outfit (Warning--NSFHE (Not Safe For Human Eyes)):






And leave it to Magneto to make the realization it took Wolverine 30+ years to come to:

Kids should never design their own costumes!!

(Oh, and obviously, Wolverine's right, the X-Men and New Mutants never, never EVER sent teens into combat...except for every issue ever.)

Panel from Uncanny X-Men #149 & #150, art by Dave Cockrum, Josef Rubenstein & Bob Wiacek and Glynis Wein.

Great Moments In Bad Marketing

Proving that I'm not just harping on DC these days...

Axel Alonso, I know you're new to this editor-in-chief business...

...but maybe, just maybe, comparing your new big event to Civil War--the bloated, terribly late shipping, non-sensical, pretty-much-reviled-even-though-it-sold-a-lot-series--may not be the wisest idea.

Plus, it sorta denigrates Schism, doesn't it? Declaring it "the X-Men's Civil War" implies a) that it's not a terribly original idea; and b) that X-Men have to compare themselves to other events in order to sell. What's next--the X-Men's Secret Invasion? The X-Men's Armageddon 2001?

Maybe you should run the next ad by Joe Q for some advice before you sign your name to it...