Despite being Marvel’s “wokest” franchise, the X-Men comics have been riddled with problematic storylines over the last few years. While Gail Simone’s run of the Uncanny X-Men mainlinehas delivered some of the most egregious missteps — many of which stand as an antithesis to X-Men’s storied history as a comic book that explores themes of prejudice, identity, and persecution — Jeph Loeb’s redux of Age of Apocalypse, X-Men of Apocalypse just dipped its toes into controversy with a promise that it plans to double down on a rather troubling trope.
