Professor X’s depression beard makes him look like Steve Jobs

polygon.com:

Marvel’s mutants may be in a pretty bad place right now, but it’s been a while since the X-Men have been true underdogs — and frankly, their return to beleaguered status has given the line a lot of energy. It’s fun to be four years into the Krakoan era and still encounter things that surprise me, like Charles Xavier’s horrible beard.

Outside of the comics, the X-Men world was rocked this weekend by the announcement that Tom Brevoort — one of Marvel Comics’ longest-serving and highest-ranking editors — is leaving his longtime post at the Avengers office to take over the X-Men line from Krakoa-era editor Jordan White. But according to Brevoort himself, the changeover won’t happen for at least a year, not until he puts a 2024 Avengers crossover event to bed and White’s team completes its current storyline, which has only really just kicked off with Fall of X.

What this mean for the future of mutants and Krakoa? We don’t know! Brevoort has said that his plans will “grow directly out of” what White’s team is doing now. But still, the question of whether the changes to the X-Men have anything to do with their conspicuous absence from the Marvel Cinematic Universe hangs eternally over Marvel’s X-Men office.

But you know what? It would be absolutely Cocoa Puffs for Marvel Comics to start making “movie-motivated” changes to the X-Men right now. Currently, Marvel Studios’ X-Men-less movie slate reaches out to 2027, with the looming specter of delays and cancellations related to Hollywood’s double strike. At this point, I’d be surprised to see an X-Men movie in theaters before the year 2030. And that’s just fine, because comic books rule.

So let’s all sit back and enjoy Professor X’s awful depression beard while we have it.

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