We were promised a major Marvel wedding in June of 2018. All signs led to it being between Kitty Pryde and Colossus, and it almost was. As we all know, those nuptials were canceled and the wedding was stolen by master thief Gambit and his new Mrs. X, Rogue. Well now we know how it all happened.
On the podcast This Week In Marvel, editor-in-chief CB Cebulski explained the situation to Agent M.
This is another one of those ideas that came out of […] encouraging creators to speak out at the retreats. Because, pulling back the curtain here for fans, […] Kitty and Colossus were supposed to get married, that was the plan. We were in the room, we were talking about it, and we were moving onto the next topic, and it was Donny Cates who
said “you know guys, wait, what if…?” And he’s the one who threw it out there. And we percolated on it for a while and we ran it by Marc Guggenheim who was like “That would be absolutely amazing, but can we keep it secret?” And we worked all the magic based on one idea where a creator just threw it out secondhand at a retreat and it changed the course of the X-Men publishing plan for six, seven, eight months.
It is an interesting look at how these publishing decisions come together. Especially as it came from a creator with no history on the X-Line. CB Continued with a tease.
And we will be revisiting that wedding very soon, in 2019. Spoilers for something coming up. There was a secret in that issue that we have never revealed.
Could this have something to do with Wolverine’s surprise, secret appearance at the wedding? Perhaps tied into the upcoming
Wolverine: Infinity Watch? Only time will tell.
Zachary Jenkins co-hosts the podcast Battle of the Atom and is the former editor-in-chief of ComicsXF. Shocking everyone, he has a full and vibrant life outside all this.
