I haven’t kept up with any X-Men related comics in a few years. The storylines always seem never ending. X-Men comics are rarely written for the casual fans as I’m always feeling lost by just reading through a random issue. Now I see Rictor and Shatterstar, two characters that date back to the days of New Mutants, have come out of the closet. I’m shocked that Marvel even went this route. Northstar, a character from the superhero group Alpha Flight, was Marvel’s first openly gay character. But that character was never as popular as these X-Men related characters are. Peter David is the scribe on X-Force and he has always been among my favorite writers in comics. Looks like he is shaking things up in the comics world once again.

Tags: Comics, Peter David, X-Men