COMICS: "Create Your Own Wedding" ASTONISHING X-MEN #51 Variant Unveiled By Marvel

They are milking this for all they can get

Here come the twelve year old homophobes...

No homo, but I want my wedding picture on a comic book cover....but i dont even buy comics anymore

okay, someone needs to put a stop to this.

What's next a new hero, RAINBOW MAN! Good grief...

This is just sad...

OH NORTHSTAR IS INTO GUYS?

Bigot is a great word though. It seems to imply that one is tall. So I guess I've been called a tall man. Or king of the mountain! Hmm, that's cool! I'm king of the mountain!

@Firg - I understand what you are saying. I just disagree that most readers would want to see it in a comic. But if they must, then I would agree again that they should introduce a new character with that persuasion instead of mucking with the past on an already established hero. It's just not cool to do to the fans of that character. They should have more sense than to do that.

@StormLogan - Is the issue about how gay marriage is bad? Are you equating gays to drugs? Both seem harmless but are actually bad? Look, you can point to 100 things in comic history to try to justify this move. I simply think it's a bad idea and unfair to fans of comics and that hero. Stay on course if you're looking to debate my response. It's just an opinion. I promise you they aren't making comic policy on my views.

WTF....SMH!!!

^^^, yes if they made a character I love a cartoon pedophile bear interest meme, I'd be pissed!

Mugwamp, that's fair enough (although I disagree with that too) but that's not what you originally said is it?

"I feel bad for the fans of Northstar some of which no doubt have a tattoo of their favorite hero who now stands for gay marriage. Through no fault of their own they are walking skin, billboards for the LGBT movement. A subject that has no place in comics made largely for kids."

When this book sells everyone will buy it. Then marvel will give Northstar his own comic and it will sell 3 issues and be cancelled due to lack of sells. Everyone will cry why no gay support from comics.Sexual preferances don't sell comics. Good stories and characters do publicity stunts do not.

@ROR - Ok, I'll address that. I was serious about that. The tattoo part was an extreme example but for instance. I really dig the Thing as evidenced by my avatar. Anyway, I'd be burnt if they suddenly decided to make him gay. Not because I'm a homophob but because I've come to know that hero and his story and really enjoy his journey in comics. It would be wrong for them to so fundamentally change that hero story as so many fans have identified with him in the way he's been written for years.

If Northstar has always identified himself as gay then the fans of that hero know him as such so no harm done I guess. That's his reality. I just meant that it would be a shame for them to have done this out of the blue to a hero that is otherwise known as straight.

Just as a LGBT reader may identify with that hero partly for his sexual identity a hetero reader would likely do the same with their own favorite hero. So imagine a person that dug a gay hero because maybe he helped them get through some difficulties in his/her life and they can see that you can be strong in the face of public scrutiny. Then the writers changed their minds and wrote him/her as straight and that hero married and started a more conventional life? How would that be fair to the person who idolized a comic hero and their ability to identify personally with that hero's struggles?

That's the long winded version of the Tattoo remark. But that's the thought, not intended to be a blast on gays just on radical changes of well founded characters. Not wanting to read stories about gay heroes is a separate matter. Hope that clears it up some. Feel free to disagree.

@mugwamp well no one can take that you are not pc and love the whole LGBT movement. You can not think freely and have your own views you must think like all the other sheep on this site.

@Dudelove - Fair enough if he's always been gay. I admittedly don't know that character very well. I don't want to read a comic about a gay wedding or a straight one for that matter. That's not what I enjoy about comics. My blast was about a perceived fundamental change to a character. If you recall recently a writer had Superman renounce his U.S. citizenship. A small issue for some but a radical change for those of us who grew up reading Superman standing for Truth, Justice and the American Way! Like it or not, that's his origin and when you get attached to a character for certain reasons it angers you when writers get a wild hare to change in huge ways.

@TheRabbit - You're initial post was dead on. 3 issues and a cancelled title. For the reasons you stated.

@mugwamp...I have a long time friend who just recently came out as gay and I didn't get upset and demand he not be gay cause I've known him for ever as a straight person it didn't change my view on him at all and he is still a good friend so why would anyone get upset at a beloved character for suddenly being gay it doesn't change who the hero is just who the hero dates if they have a problem with it then they clearly have a problem with that life style and nothing else!