#comic teams

Favorite Comic "Teams"

The 'tism hit me and I started thinking about who are my favorite comic "teams", so I had to make a post for myself logging them.

Outback Era X-Men

The John Byrne Years Alpha Flight

X-Men Blue Team

The original New Avengers

Arsenal's New Titans

The original Dark Avengers

Mike Carey's X-Men

You see, whenever I think of a team with a majority young or minority characters, I always come back to the PR situation. The media/government is always willing to tear apart anyone who doesn’t fit into societal norms, and it’s made worse by then having superpowers. So the characters would have to fight an uphill battle just to be seen as the good guys, much less equals to their more “normal” contemporaries. Because people are more willing to trust a white man with the powers of a god, than a black man with a stick.

It’s like how the comic Young Justice had to fight against a government organization, and kept accidentally making all teenage superheroes look bad, leading to them having to do a press conference to see the record straight. Or the X teams having to fight against constant abuse and intolerance. Or even the Champions doing a mix of both.