A new generation of readers cheer for #StarKat but long before Kitty Pryde fell for Star-Lord of Guardians of the Galaxy, she was in love with Colossus.
What if Kitty and Colossus married and had a child?
When Secret Wars launches this summer X-fans will return to the nightmare future of Days of Future Past and a married Peter and Kate.
Marguerite Bennett and Mike Norton return to this timeline created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne. In the classic two-part adventure Kate Pryde travel into the past, took over her younger body and stopped an assassination that led to a future in which mutants were hunted, imprisoned or executed by giant Sentinels. This is one of the most powerful and influential X-Men storylines and the inspiration for last year’s hit movie.
In Years of Future Past, Bennett goes back to a moment in the original story as part of her Warzones book.
“One line that always killed me when I read and re-read the original issues—and can I just say, isn’t it astonishing that the arc is only two issues? In my memory, the run is always enormous—was a line that Kate Pryde drops to Colossus. It’s maybe once or twice in the whole thing; she talks about having been a mother and her grief because of that. Our story focuses on Kitty Pryde and her daughter, who is the youngest mutant, the last ever born before the forced sterilizations. Her daughter is the hope of her people, and Kate must guide her through this horrible world, balancing her love of her child against the danger in which she must place her for the rescue of their people,” Bennett told Marvel.com.
Bennett says to watch for a confident, heroic Pryde leading the resistance.
“Hearkening back to the source material, this is Kitty Pryde as a grown woman, now called Kate Pryde,” she added. “She is no longer a desperate girl with nothing left to lose; she’s a mother and wife with more to lose than ever before. On her shoulders rest not only the lives of her family and friends and a solitary mission, but the survival of her entire people, who are dwindling to nothingness through the purges of the Sentinels and the abuses of the regime in power. She fights every day to keep her bitterness at bay, to instill the greatest virtues in her daughter, even as she knows that cynicism might be the better weapon. She is a projection of what we might become, if we do not act in the present to save the future.”
Years of Future Past #1, #2 arrive in June.
Fans will see a very different Kitty Pryde in Star-Lord and Kitty Pryde as Peter Quill meets the Age of Apocalypse Shadowcat.
By Editor