Yesterday, I commented on Nathan Branford’s blog about his topic of Harry Potter. He was gushing about the J. K. Rowling series, and, seemingly, everyone shared his enthusiasm. But after I posted, I reread my comment, and I thought maybe I shouldn’t be raining on everyone’s parade. It wasn’t that bad of a comment, really, but you never know how some people might react. I’ve found that sometimes if you don’t agree with someone, especially on forum-like platforms, they take it so personally, and you make an enemy forever. That is not the purpose of my internet presence. So I figured discretion was the better part of valor in this instance. Besides, I never read any Harry Potter book. I can only go by the first two movies I saw with my two sons, but I’m sure the premise is true to the book, and it is how I based my opinion of what Rowling did with Potter.
But my opinion is not in par with everyone else’s, who, like Nathan, raved about the books and the characters of the Potter series. No. My opinion was about how Rowling ripped off the X-Men. And since it was the only negative comment, I deleted it. If anyone is interested, I cut and pasted it for my own blog. The comment was as follows:
Never got into Harry Potter.
IMO, Rowling ripped off the concept of the X-Men. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the X-Men, they are not witches or sorcerers, but youngsters born with special abilities, not unlike Harry Potter, who are recruited to enroll in a special boarding school, much like Harry Potter, to learn how to develop their special abilities, exactly like Harry Potter.
Of course, like Harry Potter, they run into all kinds of bad types of their ilk.
In case you think the movies are the first appearance of the X-Men, no they aren't. The first X-Men comic came out in 1963 and even then the Xavier School for Gifted Youth was the established premise of the series.
TV's "Heroes" was another rip off of the X-Men, btw.
Back to now. I have talked about the X-Men only a little bit on this blog. I do like the concept. It was completely original, and as a kid it was my favorite comic book. I still have issues one through three hundred something. Don’t collect comics anymore. I was thinking about passing them to my sons, but they never got into comics. Maybe I’ll put them up on eBay.
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