Rogue and Gambit!!

Before I say anything else, if you have not read "X-Men: Gold" #30, do not read on. If you have or have no idea why I am making this post, join me!

As is my way, I only really post my random comic book thoughts if something significant has happened. I don't want to oversell it, but this is that kind of post.

In X-Men: Gold #30, we were SUPPOSED to get the marriage between Kitty Pryde and Colossus. For long time X-Men fans, this is a relationship that has been off and on for about thirty years. It's one of those marriages that you figured would have happened already by now and only made sense when it finally did. Instead, Marvel gives us a weird swerve where they do NOT get married. Instead, we get Rogue and Gambit?!

Although this relationship is not as old as Kitty and Colossus, it has had it's up and downs as well. This relationship is the epitome of 90's X-Men comics. I mean, it made it into the cartoon! They were characters in X-Men vs. Street Fighter! Their relationship was a central conflict in the Age of Apocalypse story line. Or rather, hinted at what could have been. This was a pairing that I was always down with and I was saddened when the events of Uncanny X-Men #350 made it seem like this relationship would never happen again. It is only coincidence, I swear, that I quit reading Uncanny X-Men and comics in general after that.

For a few years, I gave up on the X-Men and didn't follow the paths of those two characters. When I came back to the X-Men, Gambit was not showing up as often in the books I was reading. Then he appeared in X-Men: Gold at the beginning and occasionally elsewhere. It wasn't until the Rogue & Gambit mini-series a few weeks ago did I get to see them together. Not only was that mini-series really good, but it rekindled my love of this couple. They always seemed to gravitate back to one another. It's good to see the "will they/won't they" finally end.

As a cynical comic fan, they always find a way to break up marriages, so I don't foresee this lasting very long. Need examples? Look at Jean Grey/Cyclops, Pater Parker/Mary Jane, Black Panther/Storm and Wolverine/Mariko. There are plenty more examples, but these are the ones that popped into my mind.

All this is to say, let's enjoy this while we can. Hopefully it will last longer than a year. Seriously, the X-Men could use a relationship that actually lasts.