The Marvel comic, XMen, has been a successful, long-running series since 1963. The popularity is so wide-spread, it has seen growth in every area of popular culture, television, video games, movies, music, and more. Besides being one of the first comics to feature strong female heroes, it is also part of pop culture literature of science.
Mutant cells, gene-splicing, evolution, these are all early concepts used heavily in the very premise of the continuing comic series, and still used today. Science and experimentation, and the ethics implied, are also EXTREMELY important to the underlying realism in the Marvel monster.
It's medical narrative, science fiction, and literary science, an examination of bioethics, all rolled into one practically perfect medium. And that medium is highly accessible, making the many, not the few, more familiar with those literal life-altering concepts.
More on this as we continue. Good nightm fellow Alchemists. The Literary Scientist bids you farewell, and good health, until next time....
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