Happy One Year Anniversary to Northstar and Kyle Jinadu! It was one year ago the X-Man married Kyle Jinadu in Astonishing X-Men #51. The marriage was heavily promoted, protested and celebrated. Openly gay X-Man Northstar married Kyle Jinadu with the X-Men and Alpha Flight watching in New York’s Central Park. The big event inspired some gay X-men fans to tie the knot…in a comic book store on the day of the wedding issue’s arrival! The wedding of Jean-Paul and Kyle was huge for mainsteam comics but continued the tradition of diversity in the X-Men history.
Jean-Paul and Kyle are still together, still trying to cope with the pressures and dangers of being a super couple targeted by villains. Northstar’s wedding was a major milestone in comic books. Back in the 1980’s John Byrne (Jean-Paul’s creator along with the rest of the Canadian supergroup Alpha Flight) wasn’t allowed to let Northstar be an openly gay man because of editorial policy at that time. In 1992 Jean-Paul finally came out under writer Scott Lobdell’s Alpha Flight run. Northstar and Kyle’s relationship became a central element of the Alpha Flight run by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente. Marjorie Liu wrote the wedding issue and continues to tell their story in Astonishing X-Men.
Astonishing X-Men: Northstar collects the first arc of Marjorie Liu and Mike Perkins on the book. Along with the wedding – this team of X-Men (Gambit, Northstar, Wolverine, Iceman and Warbird) are in New York City when a new version of the Marauders attack. This arc brought back Cecelia Reyes and Karma of the New Mutants.
Here’s a link to Astonishing X-Men: Northstar if you missed those issues or would like to have the entire collection in this hardcover edition.
By Editor