And all the anxiety I've been feeling this week just melts away.
To be fair, although I expected the worse, I guess Marvel was trying to set everyone up to think that a marriage proposal was going to happen. So of course that couldn't happen, nope.
Instead, a break up. An open ended break up, as they always are in the comic book world, but a break up none the less. Even if Rogue doesn't get back with Gambit, I'm just kinda happy to see her trying to do what she wants and not what she thinks other people want. I guess that's what this whole issue was about. Rogue feeling empathy towards this dying man who just wanted to do what was right for himself in his life.
In the end the whole decision to be with Magneto and try to start a relationship makes sense when you think about it how Rogue explains it while breaking up with him. She was expected to just follow everyone's orders all her life and although she was free to make her own choices, she never did. After she was in control of her powers, and in essence, control of her life, it was logically expected for her to just end up with Gambit. Instead she pushed the other way. Even if she wanted to be with him, the pressure of conforming to what was expected was too much and so she pushed herself in another direction. But instead of taking control of that situation, she just fell back into her old ways and waited for Magneto to take control. Realizing that this would be an ongoing issue, she finally took some control and wants some time to herself.
Or something.
I'm just really happy this whole relationship is over for now.
Bring on the Rogue Shots:
This issue was centered around Rogue, so I just took the best few shots I could get and here they are -
