#lunar polycule

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Just Four Teammates

Team Fuck from Sex Island, that is.

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Good friends hanging out

They look so happy. Seems like they've got really strong chemistry. No wonder they decided to become housemates - with adjoining rooms in case someone needs support or they want to have a pillow fight.

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Happy Pryde Month from bi-curious Cyclops. And his wife's boyfriend.

Not from Rogue though, who is obnoxiously allo and heterosexual. Surprised she's allowed to be an X-Man, frankly, while her lesbian terrorist mothers aren't. UNhappy Pryde Month to Marvel; can't wait to dunk on the dreck you publish for the occasion. Maybe we'll learn something about Ben Liu! I want to see him topping Magneto on panel. Or a sloppy headjob. Do it, cowards.

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Lunar Polycule enjoys a snow day

Look at these Camelot motherfuckers chilling in the snow. For once Logan is the sensible one rocking a scarf. Protect ya neck, etc. Jean looks like she's wearing a kimono - no wonder Weebverine is checking her out. I had something clever to say about their temperaments and choice of jacket colours but melancholic Jean is the only one that kinda fits. Scott is far from Sanguine and Logan is only occasionally phlegmatic. Maybe they're swapping clothes

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Queer Krakoan Dancefloor

Little bit embarrassing that the Pride issue had to include the queer coded but not confirmed mutants to fill the d floor, but that's Marvel for you. So many mutants missing here too. Tag yourself, I'm fist-pumping Cyclops!

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Cyclops considers Magneto and Polaris family

MAGNETO!

Returning from a mission of liberation, Scott and Lorna hang back to let Magneto soak up the adoration. The old man really leans into it and the crowd love him in his flowing white cape. They love his grandiose speechifying and so do I.

It's not an isolated incident either - Magneto encourages this hero worship and loves it. That and they have waged a long campaign to free mutants from captivity on Earth. Lorna finds it a bit embarrassing, but Scott frames Krakoa as what they've all been waiting for. He invites her for family dinner but she passes on that. Scott continues - talking about his family and his fear of the suffering they'd endure - which they absolutely did. He goes so far as to say he nearly gave up.

Contextualising Krakoa as an end to and reward for that suffering without giving up, Scott explicitly considers the presence of family as that bounty. He doesn't name every member, but the ones he does are significant. Magneto, Polaris and Cable - with the other members implied. Krakoa has ended with everyone scattered to the four winds, but for a time they did live together as family, and Scott particularly loved it. They do superhero stuff next to the domestic, fighting monsters with his kids and going on holiday to Chandilar. Vulcan lives there, though he needs help badly. Even Corsair drops by every now and then.

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X-Men Krakoan Pride Month Highlights 🏳️‍🌈

Happy Pride Month, folks!

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!

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Scott and Jean reunite after Age of X-Man

After each thought the other was dead, Jean in Nate Grey's idiot world and Scott in the real world, wife and husband are delighted to see each other. Jean strolls dramatically and purposefully past Logan and Emma (whose haircut is 🔥🔥🔥 IMO) who are both pretty salty about what that means.

She walks right up to Scott and makes out with him, as per usual. Normally I'd be so bored with the two separate love triangles and the dynamic that entails, but this is just a really sweet moment after a terribly depressing run. House of X was right after this issue, so while there's no discussion of it, I choose to believe they all had a nice chat and negotiated the terms of polyamory. Scott and Jean are each others' primary partners of course, but the sex aside, they all got along for once. Friends even. It was great.