
We don't own any of this stuff, we do the best job that we can." There are times when people are totally happy with how it went, that's just life in the corporate lane as far as I'm concerned.

I think, for the most part, we're moderately happy with what we've gotten on the page, and moderately happy with the process. And if I have to talk to the bosses for them, or with them, I'm happy to do that and. I like to think that we have creators who want to tell stories that are very important to them as creators, and I think the most that I can do - and I feel like the most that I did while I was there - was, I support them wholeheartedly. I like to think that we push it as far as we possibly can. "So, in regards to what we're allowed to show on the page, obviously we serve a lot of masters - we serve Disney, and Marvel, and we have our own editorial group, and we have our own proofreaders group. Hickman spoke to the Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men podcast ahead of his departure and directly addressed the apparent queerbaiting. Jonathan Hickman has been responsible for the current wave of X-Men books, although he's departing now that X-Men: Inferno has wrapped up. Related: Rogue's Most Iconic Costume Returns in Dark X-Men Cosplay It feels as though Marvel's writers are being extremely careful not to develop this particular theme. Meanwhile, after years of queerbaiting Kate Pryde finally kissed a girl - but that scene happened in a comic published in September 2020, and the apparently-experimental kiss hasn't been followed up on at all. A plan showing adjoining bedrooms suggested Cyclops, Wolverine and Jean Grey were in a polyamorous relationship, but it's never been openly discussed.

The mutants certainly seem to have rejected human patterns of relationship at least - but, curiously, this has typically been done quietly. There, the mutants have created a new civilization - one that often rejects human norms. The last two years have seen the mutant race transformed, with heroes and villains alike welcome on the living island of Krakoa.


Comic book writer Jonathan Hickman, who has helmed the X-Men line through their popular relaunch over the last two years, has finally discussed the range's queer subtext and Marvel's oversight.
