People’s History of the Marvel Universe, Week 12: The Mutant Metaphor (Part IV)

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People’s History of the Marvel Universe, Week 12: The Mutant Metaphor (Part IV). It’s back! @StevenAttewell examines the comparison of mutants to Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons

Face front, true believers! In the last entry in this series, I was intending to write about Chris Claremont’s stamp on the mutant metaphor. However, recently I got bitten by a (non-radioactive) different idea and so instead I want to talk about another aspect of the mutant metaphor, a metaphor-within-a-metaphor, one that’s cropped up in many different eras of X-Men history: the comparison of…

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