i feel like bishop was always one of the best character design and power set x men to be created, i felt he was never truly utilized right.
I agree on both parts but I'm not surprised at not being used right given his editorial origins; Marvel at the time in the late 80s in to the 90s had no clue of the huge African-American fan base the X-Men had until a convention. The E-i-C then decides there needs to be a new African-American mutant to join the X-Men (he may have even specified it be a guy). They had Portacio and Lee create Bishop, two Asian guys (nothing wrong with that) but Portacio and Lee ended up making Bishop vaguely black. No doubt most fans assumed he was but it wasn't clear right away and he easily could've been a dark skinned Filipino with hair to match as opposed to a black guy with a jerri curl
No help with his sister being blonde. At the least speculation began that he was half Filipino maybe quarter that and quarter Korean.
Took years until an appearance change made it clear Bishop was black (dreadhead era) and heavy hinting that Storm was related to him.
To compound all that Bishop was from the future and not in the way Cable was raised in the future so he could've been sent back at any time, making his presence possibly temporary. Plus the future he was from did not make it clear he was even African-American
Sure he worked in the XSE in some future New York but nothing concrete more than that.
Other than Storm under Claremont and a few other writers it's been weak on repress ration given they made such use of the racism metaphor until they went to closer mirror the lbgt metaphor. The lack of black mutants always disturbed me but I did that rant already.
^ The only time Hope really mattered in X books to me. That Cable book was great even though I wasn't that happy with how Bishop was handled after that book.
I pretty much knew once the story kicked off, with Bishop accidentally shooting Professor X and then chasing Cable, that Bishop's character probably wouldn't go anywhere great after the story was over.
Yeah. In my head with the whole Bishop is a villain issue. I would've blamed the whole thing on Fitzroy. Back in Bishop: The Last X-Man he "died" and got dispersed through the time stream. I would've just said he possessed Bishop the entire time waiting and plotting revenge.
Cuz when you think about Bishop's motives during that event and that Cable book its revealed that the whole mutants in a prison camp cuz Hope grows up to kill ppl and make the world hate all mutants while possessed by the Phoenix. That **** came out of nowhere. While reason he came to the past was to find the traitor in the X-Men. First thought it was Gambit, then Prof. X, then he basically gave up (detective with Sage in Mutant town, joining the X-Men full time after his team was long dead) cuz he changed the past so much it was no longer in the path to his time.
Just blame Fitzroy, I say. Then you got Bishop as a good guy again.
Even more importantly, does anybody really care? Do you? I thought Hope's character was terribly boring to follow, though the intro storyline where Cable was running through time from Bishop (Messiah Complex?) was great.
Well, I agree. Her story following Complex was really bland. I guess, since that was the book that re-started my interest in comics, I figured that she was going to be a key character for Marvel and X-Men moving forward.
But yeah, I guess it really isn't a big deal? I mean, where did her storyline end up? Just doing some random things like Gambit? lol
She did some things but nothing that ever lived up to her alleged and forced on importance.
While creating an important character, they never created a popular character. Word to Generation Hope.
Even worse after she served her purpose.
Master Zik Sounds really good. Whats your thoughts on it so far tho? Without giving any spoilers away of course lol
And im on like issue 31 for Preacher. 90s Vertigo stuff is fire. I love how dark most of it is lol
