Let's ignore the tension between rainbow capitalism and 'no Avengers at pride' to enjoy some of my favourite moments of Marvel deciding exactly how much queerness is profitable and not a tiny bit more! It's always a good sign when they remix decades-old coming out panels, except twinkified by 250%! Seriously though, I love the characters and by making a collage of pirated content I'm asserting queer fan ownership of (and participation in) trillion dollar IP. Praχis! BGDC
Age difference? What age difference? (~80 and<18.) Pseudo manga yassification can make an ancient bisexual reformed mass murderer and gay lizard boy seem like peers. It's not like that plays into harmful propaganda and stereotypes about gay men and bisexuals! Obviously I'm overthinking it 😅
The body positivity and self actualisation is sweet plus if you squint you can see Logan hugging his boyfriend Scott in the background. It's literally the closest physical contact the two have ever been depicted displaying. Lunar polycule content is pretty rare, so please - think queer thoughts with me in defiance of Tom Brevoort claiming it 'never happened.'
You know Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes? Here's him NOT being a homophobe while blackmailing Irene Adler. The couple he's dehumanising and threatening just happen to be WLW. He does this to cis and straight folks too. Diversity win!
Here's his dumb ass being murdered for it by an immortal sapphic shapeshifter, his lifeless body tossed out a train window. See ya, hater. Love wins!
How did this get here? Oops, that's my bad. Almost as awkward as the year Marvel celebrated allies for Pride, completely ignoring queer characters! Let's just assume they fuck on the last page, hey? Loves summertime/hates summertime - the two genders.
Lest we think queerphobia is exclusively an Earth thing, here's a tale of closeted self loathing on Arakko. I know I feel seen when Solem murders his former lover with a blade that canonically sends you to hell - a place that isn't loaded at all in this context!
I do enjoy the intersectionality of the story and the willingness to show that acceptance isn't a binary. It would be easy to just make Kobak-Never-Held the only voice, proclaiming that a culture of violence doesn't care who you love or fuck. It's also pretty great that noted social Darwinist Apocalypse has a daughter who married a closeted bisexual man. Mass murdering war criminals can be widows to dead queers and homophobic at the same time. It's the duality of the human condition!
Happy ending! Instead of killing each other they have an identity affirming one night stand off-panel. The red planet is woke, you heard it here, but don't worry - Solem the ravenous, insatiable bisexual will be back to stalking Logan before you know it! In a digital only comic of course Negative, or exaggerated stereotype representation is important too! 🏳️🌈
That Storm impression is pretty funny. Does that mean the animated X-Men series exists in universe? Comics released before 2002 do, but I'm not sure what the deal is these days. I'm not sure what Ororo's problem with Bobby's jokes is - they're better than usual and he seems pretty happy. 'Guncle' - I hadn't heard that one before but it's pretty intuitive. Yeah okay, I get what Ororo's getting at. Bobby's basically just saying 'I'm gay' repeatedly in different ways. Applies to most of his publication history tbh. Closeted young people who cope with humour rejoice - you can still do that when/if you come out and your friends will still treat you with the same mild annoyance as ever!
I don't think Bobby will ever recover from that one. Pretty bold to be so plain about Ororo as a queer icon without saying why. The comics code no longer forces innuendo and insinuation. I'm a little surprised Al Ewing didn't go beyond coding when he had the opportunity. Maybe he wasn't allowed, idk, MCU properties have different rules. At least he undid Axel Alonso's 'Hercules is straight' bullshit.
Lastly, confirmation that Destiny knew the Sisterhood of Evil Mutants would fail at everything but the commitment to 'be gay, do crime' was too powerful. Doesn't really explain working for the government as mutant catchers but I guess arresting Magneto for trial of Crimes against Humanity was a win for everyone. Hmm, it even led to Chuck bouncing to space for a few years. Thanks for your service, ancient lesbians!
I'm not really into porcupines or whatever he's supposed to be, but he has a nice ass and that's all that really matters.
#10: That one Betsy Braddock variant who has a beard
Okay I know this one's kind of a stretch but I always get excited to see this guy in the background when the Captain Britain corps shows up. If Betsy is a mutant her variants would be too, right? So this counts?
#9: Wolverine (Logan Howlett)
Pretty basic, I know, but he's popular for a reason and that reason is that he's sexy.
#8: Forge
Mustache <3
#7: Sabretooth
I'm pretty sure he was my first crush as a kid lol. And as stupid as it looks the Corsair cosplay here is really doing it for me somehow.
#6: Manifold
I'm usually not into yellow for clothing but he manages to make it look good, and I love a character who has a signature color.
#5: Nightcrawler (with the horns, from Legion of X)
He's a sexy little demon man :)
#3 (tie): Magneto & Fisher King
I'm not the only one who kind of ships them, right? Like, there's something there.
#2: Jon Ironfire (as seen in Sins of Sinister)
It's a shame this version of him is from a timeline that no longer exists, because he's sooooo cool. He's got sick horns and a huge beard and he's missing an eye and he can turn his blood into metal, like come on.
#1: Colossus (in his 2022 Hellfire Gala outfit)
Obviously. I'm still mad they came up with this amazing design and then he was in the background of like 3 panels throughout the entire event and that was it.
These deal with Bei's actions and feelings in the final days and aftermath of the Genesis War.
Lots of friends lost.
The battle expressed poetically as only Bei does.
Roberto was concerned that she was taking too much upon herself, but Bei was not dealing with Doug's getting snatched up by Krakoa very well.
Information we knew, but it's a pretty rad stylisation of how Bei sees it. Krakoa's 'facial' expressions are hard to read but I think they look a bit cruel here.
Of course.
Awww. Pretty sure we're switching into Berto's viewpoint here with the visuals, or maybe they're both tight with the New Mutants. Either way it's nice to see them.
She asks if Arakko is observing the Blood Dawn this year. Kobak Never-Held has his perspective on it.
Bei has a more romantic explanation.
In what I believe is a moment of closeness, she sticks a knife in Sunspot's face and asks him if he's down.
Room for one more picture, so here's her impromptu wedding vows. I really wish we got to see Bei interact with Magneto, Exodus and Storm. Her sense of poetry and drama is legendary. A true romantic!
