Geekscape Comics: First Look At Astonishing X-Men #51 Wedding Variant

Next months issue of Astonishing X-Men is sure to stir up some controversy. Well… it already has but that’s for another time. Today we get a first look at Marko Djurdjevic’s fantastic variant featuring Northstar and Kyle ready to seal their wedding with a kiss.

Axel Alonso and Majorie Lu also went on to comment about the issue.

“When gay marriage became legal in New York State, it raised obvious questions since most of our heroes reside in New York State. Northstar is the first openly gay character in comics and he’s been in a longterm relationship with his partner Kyle so the big question was – how would this change his relationship?,” Marvel’s editor-in-chief Axel Alonso told Rolling Stone “Our comics are always best when they respond to and reflect developments in the real world. We’ve been doing that for decades, and this is just the latest expression of that.”

“Here are two people, trying to live their lives – mutant and gay, black and gay – empowered in their own ways, but also fringe-dwellers,” says Astonishing X-Men writer Marjorie Liu. “And they’re making it happen. They’re living life on their own terms. It doesn’t matter that it’s a superhero comic, the message is: You can do the same thing.” For the rest of the interview, in which Axel Alonso addresses the fact that one of Northstar’s fellow team members aren’t too happy with this wedding… click the link below.

Astonishing X-Men #50 featuring Northstars proposal is on shelves now.

Sources: Rolling Stone, Marvel