Despite the incredible story and meaningful message, Evangelical Christians unsurprisingly took offence to the novel. As shown in this CBN segment, they claimed that the novel was critical of evangelicals and thus blasphemous. The fact the X-Men were willing to go so far is incredible. As stated by Joseph Darowski in X-Men the Mutant Metaphor “This willingness to embrace a socially relevant metaphor actively is significant especially within the comic book industry.”(Darowski, Joseph, Pg.136). At the time, comics were generally conservative, especially within Marvel’s competitor Detective Comics. Detective Comics general did not enjoy taking risks. Generally, they kept to themselves and did not get into politics. When it came to kids however, they loved it. It was extremely popular, much like the rest of Claremont’s run. The edgy nature of the comic seemed to be what sold it most of all.