Or it’s a dumb retcon regardless of what his orientation was. It’d be just as stupid if Northstar suddenly “became straight”.

I’m still not sure I’m sold on Bobby suddenly being gay (yeah, yeah, Family Guy called it).

Except it is?

See, here’s the bit: The X-Books have a long, long history of being incredibly inclusive and diverse. Always have been. No one is complaining about that, what they are upset about, and rightly so, is an author coming in well after the character’s creation and saying, “Teehee, he’s totes gay now.” I’m bi,…

The last issue of X-Men was Uncanny X-Men 300. Bishop had just recently come, they had just defeated Apocalypse. The Saturday morning cartoons were airing highlighting their adventures from about issues 200-300. Yep, that was it. Everyone lived happily ever after. All these schisms, vs. battles, Utopia, Evil Cyclops,…

bigot noun

It’s not at all bigoted to not be on board with such a drastic character change that had nearly zero build-up and ignores about half a century’s worth of established character growth. It’s pretty clear that Bendis shoehorned it in to fit his own narrative, and it’s not the first time he’s done stuff like this with…

I can’t stand Bendis’ work. No idea how or why he has become so pivotal within Marvel.

The word you’re looking for is “subjectively”.

All I really want to know is: Does your ship work better when you kick it?