![]() And that’s when I really started to circle the drain in terms of developing content for today. I had already written about the Tri-Sentinel’s attack on New York City as part of the “Cosmic Spider-Man Saga” last year, so I wanted to avoid repeating posts. They might be Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s most terrifying creation. In terms of politics, even after being labeled a “menace” by the likes of the Daily Bugle and the New York Police Department, a Spider-Man comic rarely reads as politically allegorical as an X-Men comic.Īs such, I wanted to write about something that linked Spider-Man and the Sentinels, the government-sanctioned mutant-hunting robots that are the core antagonists of “Days of Future Past.” Having been created during the Cold War-era, the Sentinels perfectly captured the spirt of political and technological paranoia and cynicism that the 60s were famous for. The idea that these gigantic killer robots could be programmed by the government and vaporize a threat without conscious, was straight out of a dystopian nightmare. Even in his darkest moments (death of Gwen, “Kraven’s Last Hunt, etc.), Spider-Man rarely faces the kind of world-ending stakes that heroes like the X-Men run up against routinely. Part of the difficulty in connecting Spider-Man with something as dark and dystopian as “Days of Future Past,” is that the level of paranoia and political subversiveness the X-Men storyline emotes is rarely found in Spidey comics. Here at Chasing Amazing, we never do anything half-hearted (except for when we do – but that’s up to you, dear readers, to figure out). “Days of Future Past,” is such a landmark story for Marvel and the overall comic book industry (though the movie will unquestionably take gross liberties with it as part of its cinematic adaptation), I didn’t want to pick some random Spider-Man/X-men comic, jot down some half-hearted thoughts, click “publish,” and walk away thinking my work was done. It’s not that I don’t have plenty of options in terms of X-Men/Spider-Man team-up or crossover stories to look back on, but I was having some difficulty in trying to zero in on something that felt emotionally related to the iconic “Days of Future Past” storyline, arguably one of my favorite non-Spidey tales. Unfortunately, I had some legitimate struggles this time around trying to tie today’s Chasing Amazing post with the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, X-Men: Days of Future Past. I am nothing if not a slave to tradition.
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