X-men: Celestial Wars Part 1
Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a massive fan of Marvel Comics, more so the group known as the X-men. They were my introduction into comic books and growing up a young gay black male in america they were more or less my role models when it came to being different. Though their line up and location have changed over the years one thing has remained constant with them and that is that they are and will always be a minority fighting for their equal rights.
This may have changed more or less in a few places but the series stays true to this concept. Or at least it used to. This series has ran for decades upon decades and many exciting, as well as terrible, stories have been told with these characters. They've had extreme highs and extreme lows. One particular low has never set right with me however and that is how this story idea came to pass.
There came a time in the year 2005 where he head editors at Marvel thought that mutant-kind had grown too big for it's britches and while some may have agreed a lot of us X-Fans saw this as a natural progression of the line. It only makes sense that at some point a minority would stop being a minority and especially so in the case of the X-men's concept. Normal people who suddenly find themselves different from others at puberty.
This natural progression was not to be however and December of that year the X-men found themselves Decimated at the hands of one of their own kind. This act reduced mutant-kind to all but 198 out of the possible 16 billion and since then things have never been the same.
