X-Men: The Wedding Special (2018) #1

by Marc Guggenheim, Kelly Thompson, Chris Claremont

One of the biggest milestone events in X-Men history is almost here! Kitty Pryde and Colossus are finally about the tie the knot...but what's a wedding without the respective bachelor and bachelorette parties? Join Marc Guggenheim and Kelly Thompson for two parties that can only be celebrated Marvel style! All this, plus, a Kitty and Colossus story by legendary X-Men scribe, Chris Claremont!!!

Genres: Comics, X Men, Marvel

32 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 16, 2018

About the author

Marc Guggenheim grew up on Long Island, New York, and earned his law degree from Boston University. After over four years in practice, he left law to pursue a career in television.

Today, Guggenheim is an Emmy Award–winning writer who writes for multiple mediums including television, film, video games, comic books, and new media. His work includes projects for such popular franchises as Percy Jackson, Star Wars, Call of Duty, Star Trek, and Planet of the Apes.

His next book, In Any Lifetime, coming from Lake Union Publishing on August 1st.

Guggenheim currently lives in Encino, California, with his wife, two daughters, and a handful of pets.

Keep up to date on his latest projects with LegalDispatch, a weekly newsletter where he shares news and notes about writing, comics, and the entertainment industry.

Reviews

[Kay ☾ · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars for sure. But I didn't feel right giving it 3 stars. Another #1 I read where I do not care to read more about it.

Fun fact: This takes place after the whole Rogue & Gambit comic series that I tried to read earlier today. Also, they got back together even though Gambit was problematic. But toxic relationships are apparently normal in this universe. More on that later.

3 short stories that intertwine all in one comic. We see Kitty Pride having issues with the dead men in her life, Peter at his bachelor party, and Kitty at hers. None of the characters seemed interesting. Kitty Pride in this piece didn't seem as selfish as she was in Rouge & Gambit. I don't care for these romances and I won't be continuing to see if they make it to the alter.

Also, not sure if this was meant as a joke but Peter seemed to have a lot of double standards in this relationship. Why was he allowed to have a bachelor party in Vegas but didn't have any faith in Kitty when she was going to her karaoke bachelorette party? Like I said, toxic.

[Simeon Scott · Rating 2 out of 5]

Reading this really thought me that I need to pay more attention to solicitations, I've always been interested in Kitty and Peter but have never really read anything about them so I picked this up hoping it would give me a better sense of where they are right now in the comics and maybe even get me to read the rest of the wedding story but man was this all over the place, the first story was kind of informative but felt like it was leaving a lot of important details out and had a wired fucking ending that I still don't get after reading it a second time, the second story felt like I was just reading half of an issue of X-men Gold especially because it didn't even have a proper ending and the third had some cute book ending stuff but the middle of it was just confusing as hell for someone who hasn't read a lot of X-men comics. So not bad, probably real enjoyable for big X-men fans, but not for me.

[Kristin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was really looking forward to this one: saved it for a stretch of quiet time to enjoy it and… it fell flat for me. My experience of it feels lower than three-stars to me, but I think that is because this issue contained three separate but related stories, and the opener…left me cold. So much internal dialogue, but nothing much happened. Maybe it is just that I am newish to reading the X-Men, but it didn't resonate with me at all.

I don't know how accurate my perceptions were with the other two stories: I reacted better to both of them, but…the content, to me, did not fit the title of The Wedding Special. Maybe that's just me (an occupational hazard of having been part of many weddings in a professional capacity), but it felt like there was far too little about love for a wedding-related issue. I expected the obstacles and conflict, that's what makes a story, but this didn't feel to me like there was a wedding at the heart of it.

[Silas · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am not entirely current on X-Men books, but had heard that Kitty Pryde and Colossus were getting married, and saw this, so I thought I would check it out. This doesn't actually cover the wedding, itself, which I suppose will probably show up in an actual X-book, but does have some lead up stories featuring bachelor and bachelorette parties, which were amusing at times, and are something I have really missed in comic books lately, a story about the relationships between the characters, not just solid fights from cover to cover. It harkened back to days I quite enjoyed in comics. It also went over a bunch of the history of the characters, which was a good way to bring a reader up to speed, and brought back fond memories for me, because I have read most of those stories before. I do think it would have been nice if the wedding were actually included, and that would have made it a 5 star book, I think, but as it was, I still very much enjoyed this book.

[J. Sterling Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kitty Pryde is and always has been my favorite mutant. It's nice seeing her take centerstage and have more storylines revolving around her and the mess that she's been through.

I'm not sure I'm enjoying this new take on Kurt, and the art for Remi is downright atrocious, and what happened to his signature accent? It comes across now as something confused and a bloody mess. Still all of that couldn't mess up the beauty that is more Kitty and Lockheed.

[Rangga Sukmawijaya · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nomor ini berkisah tentang para X-Men sebelum hari-H pernikahan Kitty Pride dengan Colossus. Pembukaannya adalah penceritaan riwayat hidup Kitty dengan sudut pandang Kitty sendiri mengenai perjalanannya bersama X-Men. Setelah itu, para X-Men pria dan, kemudian, para wanitanya mendapatkan bagian sendiri-sendiri dalam pesta bujang/lajang masing-masing.

[Jessica · Rating 2 out of 5]

This comprised 3 stories leading up to the wedding of Kitty and Colossus:
1) Kitty is visited by the ghosts of her past
2) Colossus's bachelor party
3) Kitty's bachelorette party
As I am not a fan of either character, these did not hold my interest.

[Derek Neveu · Rating 2 out of 5]

A lot of pre-wedding cliches, and I’m not really sure this book was necessary.

[Siona Adams · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the first and last story in this, but none of them were really all the special to me.

[Fiona · Rating 3 out of 5]

that one tiny emma/kitty moment made my day