A fun read with fun questions and answers. I'm going to highlight Brevoort's answers below but they're all great.
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/02/12/x-...s-day-special/
It’s here, X-Fans, my favorite time of year: Valentine’s Day. The holiday itself, I could care less about. But the opportunity it presents to ask creators ridiculous questions about the X-Men’s messy personal lives and character flaws — that’s the type of thing that makes my heart swell with joy.
Also, this edition’s something of a collector’s item as it features Marvel Executive Editor and incoming X-Men editor Tom Brevoort making his first-ever X-Men Monday appearance.
AIPT: In your opinion, what is it about the X-Men franchise that makes it such fertile ground for iconic romantic moments, heartbreak, messy love triangles, fan shipping, and so on?
Tom Breevort: Over the last few years, it’s been a few hundred mutants all crammed together in close quarters on an island with nothing else to do but Make More Mutants. I mean, Krakoa doesn’t even offer cable packages. Prior to that, it was a series about young people boarding together at a school. The “fastball special” is an unofficial Xavier Academy tradition.
AIPT: Who, in your opinion, is the most romantic X-character? (And why?)
Tom Brevoort: Back in the day, it was the Beast, before he threw over human needs and desires in favor of science. Nightcrawler also had some moves, but he doesn’t really use them as often anymore. So these days, Gambit is the clear winner. Angel wants to be, but he’s mostly all talk. But Gambit thinks about this stuff.
AIPT: Which X-character does everybody go to for relationship advice?
Tom Brevoort: I think most everyone turns to Storm for her level-headedness — to the point where she kind of wishes that they’d stop. But she’d never turn away someone in need of advice. Everybody steers away from Professor X because he thinks he has all of the answers but he really doesn’t, as his own dating history proves. But the person they avoid asking ever is Cable, due to his straight-ahead tendency to jump ahead into the future and then come back and tell them how the relationship all went wrong. (95% of the time, it’s all Apocalypse’s fault! APOCALYPSE!!!)
AIPT: Comic books only have so many pages and there are just so many mutants to focus on. So with that said, which X-character would you say has the most active off-panel love life?
Tom Brevoort: Beak. Beak f*cks.
AIPT: Well, on that note, it’s time for the final and most X-rated question in X-Men Monday history! Which X-Couple has the best sex life?
Tom Brevoort: Rogue and Gambit pretty well have to be a lock on this one. Emma and Scott worked hard and tried their best to go beyond them, but could never quite manage it, and Havok and Madelyne are surprisingly vanilla. (And Wolverine tends to get all weepy after doing the deed, which makes him kind of a downer in the bedroom.)
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