X-Men Legacy #274 - Rogue Shots

*Spoiler ahead, maybe...*

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 -

An Offer to Leave Her Speechless...

I have to wonder if I am one of the only Rogue fans almost sick with anxiety over the new X-Men Legacy coming out next week. Probably not.

I get that it's just a comic and I get that the storyline is pretty much set in stone at this point. But I think it's kinda like watching a friend make a really bad choice and not being able to say anything about it.

I have been reading comics for 15 years now. I first fell in love with Rogue when I was 7 years old watching X-Men: The Animated Series. I'm from a small town with no comic book stores, so the first time I ever picked up a comic book I was 11 years old and at the corner store, looking to spend some hard earned bottle depot refunds on candy, when I came across Uncanny X-Men #341 -

Missing the television series, which by this time had been cancelled for a few months, I quickly flipped through the comic book in the store and saw this amazing artwork featuring Rogue and instead of loading up on candy that day, I bought my very first comic book. Ever since then I have been in love with the Rogue of the comic book world. Of course, at that point in time there was a strange love triangle set up involving Rogue, Joseph & Remy, but always I felt Rogue should be with Remy.

But it's not even that I'm a hardcore ROMY fan (which I most certainly am), it's just this connection Rogue seems to have with this older, slightly creepy, somewhat of a jerkwad man bothers me. I just plain don't like Magneto. It wasn't so bad when it was just Rogue with her little girl crush and he just ignored her, but now he's this old and angsty guy chasing after a girl the same age (maybe younger?) than his own daughter. Bleh >.<

I would rather see Rogue with Iceman or Cannonball or even Pyro (you know, if he wasn't dead). But with this "offer" that the previews are eluding to, I find myself thinking it could be the worse case scenario for a fan like me: a marriage proposal.

The reason for all the anxiety I think stems from the fact that I just got back into the story line after a year long hiatus and I seriously don't know if I could continue reading if this is the case and Rogue says yes. I dunno, maybe I'm just being too sensitive about the story line, I mean it's not like there hasn't been bad story lines and horrible character depictions before. And it's not like I haven't gotten through them before either. So maybe I'll get through this one as well.

I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who feels this way about the strange relationships Rogue is involving herself in right now. I'm also pretty sure I won't be the only one going through old comic books to reread favorite story lines in order to get through the next few comic books until the Marvel Now! relaunch.