Rictor and Shatterstar Are Totally Gay For Each Other

If you’re anything like me, your first reaction to that headline goes something like this:

“Say WHAAAAAAA?????”

That’s what I did when my wife told me about it. She apparently got the info from Perez Hilton at 9:15 this morning…the day Perez gets the drop on me when it comes to geek culture (gay or no) is a sad day indeed. Some people are trying to say its a publicity stunt, but  writer Peter David says its the real deal.

“It’s not a fake out. A number of people seem to be concerned that Star is still under Cortex’s control. Or that Rictor is going to freak out the next panel and say, ‘Dude, what the hell?’ That would be cheap. I don’t do cheap. Okay, sometimes I do, but not this time. I’m not interested in having people say, ‘Peter David introduced this and then chickened out.’"

Apparently there have been hints to their relationship before now, and the latest issue of X-Factor confirms suspicions. Not to shit in anyone’s cereal here, but I don’t think this is going stick. It’s not going be David’s fault. Kudos to him for having the stones to pull this shit off. But anyone who reads my blog knows that I don’t read Marvel because they have continuity issues. Some writer will come along after David’s moved on to other projects, and either explain the whole incident away or ignore it completely and give one or both of these characters female romantic interests.

Still, this fact does not cheapen the fact that mainstream comics has addressed the gay issue. Way to deal with the elephant in the room, guys.

The groundbreaking moment takes place in X-Factor, 45 which went on sale today. I’ve uploaded an image of the last page for your convenience.

On an unrelated note: Does it annoy the fuck out of anyone but me that Rictor’s name is misspelled??? His mutant ability is to generate seismic energy waves (basically the guy can create earthquakes.) One would assume his name is taken from Charles RICHTER, the man who invented the RICHTER magnitude scale that we use to measure earthquakes, but Marvel insists that his name is RICTOR. Sorry about that. The English major in me reared his ugly head.

DS Out.

[Source: Peter David]