X-FACTOR #45
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It's a good week for gay characters in comics.
Detective Comics #854 features the first openly gay lead solo character in a flagship title in the DC Universe -- Kate Kane, Batwoman -- with a backup feature starring a second lesbian character, Renee Montoya. Guardians of the Galaxy #15 has lesbian couple Phyla-Vell and Moondragon being open and affectionate -- and kicking ass. Runaways #11 features the always-awesome gay character of Karolina. Uncanny X-Men: Utopia touches on the classic mutants-as-gays metaphor by featuring a Proposition 8-like anti-mutant law, San Francisco riots, and the rhetoric of the anti-gay movement ("Adam and Eve, not Atom and Eve"), all the while including gay characters like Northstar, Karma, Anole, and Graymalkin among its cast.
And in X-Factor #45, Rictor and Shatterstar, long rumored to be a couple since an aborted storyline during Jeph Loeb's 90s X-Force run, kiss on-panel.
This shouldn't be as big a deal as it is. But to my knowledge, this is the first male/male romantic kiss ever to appear on-panel in a Marvel comic. I don't know where the storyline will go from here, and I don't know if the two men will be a couple. But the fact remains that this panel, this kiss, exists. That a barrier has been broken that even Marvel's most prominent gay couple -- Hulkling and Wiccan of the Young Avengers -- have not managed to break. Kudos to Peter David for taking that leap of faith (in an issue that is, frankly, awesome and entertaining regardless of the kiss).
It's a small step, but it's a step. And put into perspective with all those other titles, the chances for equality in representation are looking just a little bit brighter this week. Color me pleased.
Detective Comics #854 features the first openly gay lead solo character in a flagship title in the DC Universe -- Kate Kane, Batwoman -- with a backup feature starring a second lesbian character, Renee Montoya. Guardians of the Galaxy #15 has lesbian couple Phyla-Vell and Moondragon being open and affectionate -- and kicking ass. Runaways #11 features the always-awesome gay character of Karolina. Uncanny X-Men: Utopia touches on the classic mutants-as-gays metaphor by featuring a Proposition 8-like anti-mutant law, San Francisco riots, and the rhetoric of the anti-gay movement ("Adam and Eve, not Atom and Eve"), all the while including gay characters like Northstar, Karma, Anole, and Graymalkin among its cast.
And in X-Factor #45, Rictor and Shatterstar, long rumored to be a couple since an aborted storyline during Jeph Loeb's 90s X-Force run, kiss on-panel.
This shouldn't be as big a deal as it is. But to my knowledge, this is the first male/male romantic kiss ever to appear on-panel in a Marvel comic. I don't know where the storyline will go from here, and I don't know if the two men will be a couple. But the fact remains that this panel, this kiss, exists. That a barrier has been broken that even Marvel's most prominent gay couple -- Hulkling and Wiccan of the Young Avengers -- have not managed to break. Kudos to Peter David for taking that leap of faith (in an issue that is, frankly, awesome and entertaining regardless of the kiss).
It's a small step, but it's a step. And put into perspective with all those other titles, the chances for equality in representation are looking just a little bit brighter this week. Color me pleased.
Story: 5 - Excellent
Art: 4 - Very Good
Art: 4 - Very Good
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