"Comics accurate" costumes don't guarantee a movie will be successful

Or that they're based on the traditional designs of decades past. The Inquirer wrote about the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday film, which appears to add the X-Men to the Marvel film machine:

When I read comic books, I prefer issues drawn and written by proven artists with an excellent track record. I approach the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) with the same level of scrutiny. Let’s be honest: after some recent experimental phases, we’ve all been longing for that “all-time great story” feeling to return. On January 6, 2026, Marvel Studios didn’t just release a trailer; they delivered a seismic shift with the third teaser for ‘Avengers: Doomsday.’ This teaser alone blows out of the water every other teaser that came before it. This hits hard!

Once I saw this specific teaser, I felt goosebumps because I knew when things were about to change for the better. And if only they had done this long ago, but who are we to bring that point up or even complain? What matters is that finally, and I will be using that adverb a few more times throughout my newest pop culture piece because it is about damn time, they showcase what a true (Jim Lee era) X-Man looks like (the classic blue and yellow costume) and embrace their comic book origins from that specific timeline (early ’90s) in Marvel Comics. It is a sight to behold no matter how fleeting it was for me to see it.

If the earlier teasers featuring the returns of Chris Evans as “Captain America” and Chris Hemsworth as “Thor” were just the appetizers, this X-Men-centric reveal is the main course we’ve been craving since Disney acquired 20th Century Fox in 2019. Finally, they are pulling the trigger, incorporating the best of the X-Men into the fold, and are giving what the longtime fans have been clamoring for, which is to have the X-Men as part of the MCU, because, let us all be honest here with the situation, to have no mutants in the MCU is as dumb as a box of rocks. It is silly, illogical, and senseless because the X-Men are one of the biggest reasons why Marvel Comics became the titans they are in the comic book industry, and why adapting comic book characters from Marvel Comics to the big screen became a thing in the first place.

Umm, even Spider-Man is one of the reasons why Marvel once became a titan...but the columnist is oblivious to how they fell since the turn of the century, dragging their creations into increasingly pointless directions that only served as political statements with no entertainment value involved. He's also oblivious to how Lee watered down his art style in the past decade for the sake of woke points. And the part about the blue and yellow outfits is confusing, because wasn't that the original outfits the first 5 X-Men had in the Silver Age? Within a few years, the artists were drawing them distinctive outfits instead, so I'm not sure what the columnist is lecturing us about here.

And I for one am not clamoring for the X-Men to be incorporated into the Marvel movieverse proper after all the wokeness that ensued in the past several years. Unfortunately, they're awfully late, and the X-Men's addition alone does not a talented movie make. Whether the costumes are verbatim to what was seen in comics in any era is moot. And, how isn't it silly and illogical to force political correctness upon the films that only proves divisive, as the 4th Thor movie did?

Some would-be entertainment writers sure know how to obscure the crucial issues of merit. This puff piece from the Inquirer is no different.