With the Krakoa Era ending, can we agree that the Hellfire Gala was fricking embarrassing? Seeing the creators vicariously live the red carpet lifestyle through their mutant self inserts of choice was pathetic.
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>Based Logan is the only man dressed up halfway normal.
He's on security duty
>now
Yeah, now. You know, the D*sney era.
>b-b-but le metaph-
41% yourself immediately.
>Claremont writing everyone as lesbians didn’t happen, bro!
10 years ago is still pretty recent
The X-Men have been shit for a long time
>now
Hellfire Gala was the point of no return where they went from gay to obnoxiously gay. Where they went from sucking dicks in private to sucking dicks in public, in front of an unwilling captive audience, while wearing women's clothing.
It's a skintight onesie designed to look like a tux with a bolo tie.
Boring taste
I thought it was fun.
Hellfire Gala was one of the more egregiously masturbatory events in comic book history that readers don't seem to call out too often.
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absolutely disgusting, the worse part none of em look good
Fricking super models couldnt pull off these garbage clothes
>but super models wear garbage clothes all the time
Yes and i consider those clothes a defrickingmerit if even 10/10 gigachads and stacies cant make em look good.
The biggest trend in supermodeling right now is literally just the black tape project shit where even superheroines wouldn't be caught wearing by editorial.
Were we ever in disagreement that homosexuals worshipping other homosexuals for wearing moronicly expensive clothes at a super homosexualy Hollywood event was ever cool?
I hope so. I've always said that superheroes suffer whenever creators try to make them more fashionable, and this is the fullest example of that.
No it was cool and fun. Would much rather have it annually that a big crossover. Also one of the few times Krakoa seemed like it was a real place
Pixie a cute
Agreed. The amount of celebrity cameos in clear “I wish that were me shaking their hand” energy was so damn embarrassing. Although it least was as cringe inducing as the real Met Gala in terms of how hard the mutants were sucking themselves off pretending to be new world nobility while the humans awkwardly played along to their masturbatory fantasies out of a combination of pity and indigestion.
>The amount of celebrity cameos in clear “I wish that were me shaking their hand”
The same thing is most of the celebrities they got the rights for weren't even good.
x-men is now gay. i'll stick to a cooler ip or the classics
Like most things in the Krakoan era it was something that was supposed to be thought as big thing just because the writers thought it should be. One time, maybe you can get a pass because it was an elaborate way to introduce Mars being terraformed. After that it was just stupid, especially when they kept insisting an entire year had passed. Like, c’mon.
It was extremely cringy. I think Hickman wanted everyone to agree that celebrity galas are a cool and amazing thing when in reality theyre more of a spectacle for normies who live for gossip. Turning superhero costumes into fashion is just a sign of how far the medium has fallen that it's totally lost track of why characters wear things in the first place. At the very most it should have been a one-time thing.
The idea that a year passes in-universe between each gala is also literally impossible.
Oh yeah and the final one had that really shitty Nimrod massacre scene in it which only existed to for edgelords to jerk off over.
Overall extremely fricking cringe
>Turning superhero costumes into fashion is just a sign of how far the medium has fallen
Except you’ve always had ridiculous and flashy costumes. Sometimes even on purpose to be ridiculed.
Yes, but superhero costumes were meant to be ridiculous and flashy in the same way that wrestling costumes are. They're not meant to look "fashionable" or walking art shows that only look good in photos. And they're certainly not meant to be street wear.
They were meant to look like circus freaks
No, I liked these designs.
It was pretty much one of the iconic parts that leftiee x-men twitter constantly creamed itself over. the whole "gay people love fashion" thing isn't just a meme, they really do. And the idea the X-men were able to be celebrities and be worshiped also played into their idea of Krakoa.
Lots of people love fashion. The problem, as noted by people who actually love fashion who were paying attention to the books, is that comic artists aren't fashion designers.
>Lots of people love fashion.
yes we call them gay people
Then why do all the gay people I know dress mid as frick?
I fapped a lot to the female loose ones
This is probably what hot me to 100% give up X-men. I'm back now because of '97
Itt people angry at artists for art.
>you have to covet all art no matter what just because it exists
have a nice day
The celebrity gala thing was a bit weird and self-indulgent the first time. Repeating it was cringe asf
It would have been fine as an annual that set up plot points for the next year but making it this big thing really hurt it.
The Hellfire Gala was just a microcosm of everything wrong with the Krakoa era in general. Self-indulgent, narcissistic, boring, misguided nonsense.
The entire Krakoa story seemed to be setting up the X-Men as villains, subverted by some unseen force into becoming depraved orgy fascists... but it never had any payoff. There was no villain revealed, no corruption, no brainwashing. They just decided to be buttholes for a few years and then got their shit pushed in.
What a waste of everyone's time.
Hickman has confirmed in interviews Krakoa was never going to be a dark story. He says people are just reading things into his comics that aren't there.
Which really made me think. Like seriously.
Can we admit that the dominions stuff is just as shit as the Orchis stuff yet? Or are we still pretending that it's cool world building?
>can we agree
no, frick off and die
you first
This shit reeked of tumblr, another symptom of untalented writers using the characters like fricking puppets to live out their fantasies of being coastal city elites.
Havok looks good. I wouldn’t mind his costume in the future becoming a simpler version of this. The white bands on the shoulders look better than them being on his head.
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>SEX with Selene
You will LITERALLY die.
I liked it
I like superheroes, parties and colorful clothes and seeing superheroes throw parties and dress in colorful clothes is fun.
It's something I'll miss with the end of the hellfire gala but I hope it left enough of a mark on the X-men brand that it'll eventually make future appearances be it in comics or other mediums.
You paid for the floppies right? Post proof. Otherwise you didn’t like it. At best you were mildly amused by it.
I have no problem with the designs or the desire to showcase them. I'm mostly into comics for the art anyway, and the oitfits were novel. And a yearly book to set the tone or direction is a good idea. The gala idea itself is gay tho, and the execution of the books wasn't ever mindblowing.