06.24.07
Writing Superheroes: Sixth Post (Girl’s Stories)
I like the girls’ X-Men stories a lot. Not only did they achieve their stated goal of letting more girls play and incorporate the relationship-based concepts they had previously been focusing on in their stories, but they also managed to stay more true to the source material. The themes and characters’ personalities were far more faithful to the X-Men seen in the cartoon of comics than anything the boys had written. I’m really not sure why that is, but it was certainly an interesting and unexpected phenomenon.