As a longtime comics and X-Men fan (since 1980! I was 13 when I discovered the comic, just as Kitty Pryde--also 13, also a genius, also of Jewish heritage--joined the team!), thank you.
As an interesting side note, the X-Men were influential in both my interest in literature and my actual conversion, both stemming from X-Men Annual #4, 1980, "Nightcrawler's Inferno," which got me--yes, at 13--to read The Divine Comedy in its entirety ( I did a book report on it in 8th grade--and then turned it in again in 9th grade in high school, sneakily, but it was all my own reading and work)--I later wound up getting my MA in Medieval/Renaissance Literature, and of course, Kurt's Christian faith (the one who looks like a demon and yet is grateful to God for who he is) helped inspire me--as did Narnia--and I became a Christian a few years later. <3
As a longtime comics and X-Men fan (since 1980! I was 13 when I discovered the comic, just as Kitty Pryde--also 13, also a genius, also of Jewish heritage--joined the team!), thank you.
As an interesting side note, the X-Men were influential in both my interest in literature and my actual conversion, both stemming from X-Men Annual #4, 1980, "Nightcrawler's Inferno," which got me--yes, at 13--to read The Divine Comedy in its entirety ( I did a book report on it in 8th grade--and then turned it in again in 9th grade in high school, sneakily, but it was all my own reading and work)--I later wound up getting my MA in Medieval/Renaissance Literature, and of course, Kurt's Christian faith (the one who looks like a demon and yet is grateful to God for who he is) helped inspire me--as did Narnia--and I became a Christian a few years later. <3