Northstar's Boyfriend Coming In January!
You guys may recall I was a bit cranky about Northstar and his lack of lovin' about a year and a half ago. In fact, at the time, I issued a challenge to Marvel to get him a kiss by June 2009 or I would declare him not really gay.
I have not forgotten about this.
However, when the X-men moved to San Francisco this year, we were teased with the existence of what looked to be Northstar's boyfriend (and manager), so I delayed judgment until we could see more.
Since then, Northstar hasn't had a lot of major appearances, as there have been about a thousand major crossover events in the Marvel universe in the last six months, and each one tends to disrupt the normal storyline for most books, including the many X-books. So I waited.
Our patience seems to have been rewarded! Artist Tim Fish revealed on his blog that his upcoming story in Nation X #2 (which comes out in Jan.) is a story about Northstar, and will feature Kyle, his boyfriend in an 8-page story. I'm not sure if an actual kiss is in it, but it's implied that there is some lovin' going on. Check out some sketches of Northstar, Kyle, and Aurora below, and we'll keep you up to date when we get closer to Jan.
NATION X #2 1/6/10 [TimFishWorks]
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Posted to Comic of the Week, Comics, Hot Stuff, Superheroes on 7 December 2009
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YES! I love Tim Fish's work. just finished his latest AND IN COLOR BOOK, 'Trust/Truth' and I loved it. I hope he brings his wit, charm to this story. It is great also that Marvel is using an out artist/writer to do this story.
Not really caring for his boyfriend. At least not from the little we've seen so far.
I do hope they get to kiss though.
I mean, Peter David really screwed over Northstar, who as first confirmed gay character in the MU should have had the first gay kiss. And if they don't get to kiss after Marvel already had one gay kiss anyway, it would be even more pathetic.
It was bad enough that PD had that idiot Shatterstar kiss Valerie Cooper a few issues later out of the blue.
No, he wasn't going to undo the kiss or anything. He just wound up making it meaningless by having the psycho kiss anyone he just met as if the action is completely insignificant.
And what about a kiss between Northstar and Colossus? *.*