Pride Of Place

Wedding bells ring for Mystique and Destiny in this year's Marvel Voices: Pride

- STEPHEN JEWELL

PROMISING “SOMETHING NEW, also borrowed and especially blue”, Kieron Gillen is bringing his stint on the Merry Mutants to a close with X-Men: The Wedding Special. Centring on the marriage of Mystique and Destiny, the special coda issue takes the lead in this year’s Marvel Voices: Pride, which also features contributions from Tini Howard, Wyatt Kennedy, Tate Brombal and Yoon Ha Lee.

“Given how bleak most of my run was, perhaps it’s the after-credits-have-fun-withthe-cast sequence,” Gillen tells Red Alert. “It’s also the interstitial between the Krakoan age and the next as it grows from everything I have done with Raven and Irene, but it also sets up where they’re going next. Marriage is about endlessness, but so is the Marvel Universe.”

Many Marvel characters have tied the knot over the years – most memorably Northstar and Jean-Paul Beaubier’s first same sex nuptials in 2012’s