Marvel Comics plans wedding for gay hero Northstar

Associated Press ^ | May 22, 2012

[Free ThinkerNY]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Wedding bells will ring this summer for Marvel Comics’ first openly gay hero, super speedster Northstar.

The New York-based publisher said Tuesday that Canadian character Jean-Paul Beaubier will marry his beau, Kyle Jinadu, in the pages of “Astonishing X-Men” No. 51. That’s due out June 20.

[RexBeach]

My word, is nothing sacred?

[massmike]

They’re sure making up for Bert and Ernie not getting married,aren’t they?

[TurboZamboni]

Mark Dayton will be so excited. (Northstar is also the nickname of MN)

[dfwgator]

No wonder they shortened the name to “Stars” when the hockey team came here from Minnesota.

[2ndDivisionVet]

So their “alternate lifestyle” must spread its tentacles to every media and entertainment venue, lest one American miss their message? Imagine if Christians or the Tea Party tried this.

[Perdogg]

At least Wonder Woman is not lesbo.

[Olog-hai]

Bleh. Northstar’s a minor Marvel character anyhow. He and his split-personality fraternal twin sister Jeanne-Marie (aka Aurora); Marvel gave them a real unstable family background too.

[cuban leaf]

Never heard of him.

[dfwgator]

At least Wonder Woman is not lesbo.

Yet.

[Misterioso]

Well, that’s IT. I’ve cancelled my subscription.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Earlier articles inferred that it would be a major superhero ( Batman, Superman, etc ) who would be outed. I never heard of this one. Think the backlash stopped them from career killing a biggie?

[trailhkr1]

At least Wonder Woman is not lesbo.

Well, she is hot and if her "partner" is equally as hot, sales will go through the roof.

I don't have a problem with hot lesbos.

[BO Stinkss]

I guess his super powers aren’t the only thing that makes him a mutant. Being Canadian makes it more believable, eh?

[LostInBayport]

These are the death rattles of a once thriving and proud industry that told tales of heroics and wonder for kids and adults without getting mired in politics, liberalism and overt sexual issues. In other words, they were escapism. Now, most thinking readers have escaped the comics instead!

Today, a title is considered successful if it sells over 50,000 copies. In the 90s, it was 100,000 copies. In the 80s, 250,000 and so on, back to million sellers like Superman, Donald Duck and Captain Marvel in the 1940s. I would not be surprised if Disney (Marvel) and Time-Warner (DC) cut their losses and eliminate the publishing divisions and mine the characters for multi-million dollar movies for years to come.

I bet they won’t take the “courageous” stand and put a gay character in Avengers II. Not when there is a risk of losing actual money by offending the audience. That’s not the case in comics.

[Bitsy]

At least Wonder Woman is not lesbo.

I’m sure they will get around to “fixing” that problem.

[TheBigB]

This is actually Marvel Comics, not DC Comics. DC is the one with the upcoming outed character. Northstar has been around and has been out for a while now.

[blueunicorn6]

An “Ex-Man” is homosexual? Tie some tin cans to his bumper.

[RedStateNotShirt]

“At least Wonder Woman is not lesbo.”

Next month’s issue written and edited by Howard Stern.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Got it. Wondering if DC is going to see how well this does to gauge how far they go forward with their plan.

So it looks like all other flying superheroes will now have to check their six more than before.