![]() ![]() ![]() This continued proliferation of stories about people who don’t fit the mold such as mutants who have long subbed in for all kinds of repressed minorities has reach saturation point in recent years hand-in-hand with the ascendancy of superhero cinema and while it has been a welcome development it has meant that it has become challenging, as it does with so much popular genres, to find a fresh way to tell the many stories that fit neatly within it. The creative arts have often celebrated and held up those who differ from the norm since those working in the various industries are not your average products of the cookie cutter mold, an identity very much borne of inherent Otherness which ha, quite naturally, had a profound and understandable effect on their storytelling. Rather ironically for an age in which difference has rapidly become villified by far too many people looking for a quick, greasy populist win, pop culture is more obsessed with the Other of all stripes than ever before. (cover image courtesy Hachette Australia) ![]()
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