Uncanny X-Men #273

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Comments

[katefan]

Teen love can be a touchy subject especially where the perceived and actual ages of the characters were concerned. Kitty was 14, Peter was at least 19 since he was able to drink at a bar in NYC and that was the legal drinking age there then.

If Jim was the editor in chief at the time the romance started then I can see where Chris might have been upset if his boss yanked the rug out from under him, changing his mind about the whole thing. But maybe Jim got a talking to from his bosses about the whole affair and had to play bad cop. But honestly if Jim signed off on it, what the hell was he thinking? I don't care how innocent the relationship was supposed to be, prudish Americans were gonna squawk.

[zylly]

I've always heard it being down to Shooter's personal distaste for it, but it's entirely possible that there's more to the story than meets the eye. Either way, I think he was probably right to end it, since it was moving way beyond a one-sided teenage crush.