...with all this in-breeding.
Once upon a time, a good friend of mine and I spent time setting up a relationship diagram connecting Chicago's "popular" gay men and their "relationships." It was epic, but we...um, I mean they... had nothing on the X-Men.
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Of course, Marvel's X-Universe had 40+ years and our time frame was smaller, and the misadventures we were capturing weren't captured in a comic book (but oh what fun that would have been! talk about your graphic novel), so we didn't know everything about everyone, but still, if you've ever wondered (a) why getting started in comics reading can be a daunting task, (b) why they feel they have tons of stories to tell on the big screen, no matter how many times they screw-up and need to reboot the franchise, and (c) why the comics feel the need to wipe the slate clean, reboot, create the Ultimate series, or other fun "what ifs?" like Exiles.
