Its Valentine’s Day again, and love is in the air (for better or worse). We decided to get into the spirit by highlighting five of the best couples in comics, the relationships we love to read about and can’t help but root for. There are plenty of great relationships in comics to choose from, so if we missed one of your favorites, feel free to tell us about it in the comments.Colossus and Kitty PrydeColossus and Kitty’s relationship goes way back to the early 1980s, when Chris Claremont and John Byrne first created the character. At the time, her “relationship” with Piotr felt more like a schoolgirl crush than anything else, and it remained mostly flirtatious, with an innocent mistletoe kiss at Christmas every now and then (which is probably for the best since, you know, it would have been pretty statutory otherwise).The two split up eventually, after Colossus cheated on Kitty with a space nurse during the Secret Wars crossover. Then Kitty joined her Excalibur and developed significantly lower standards, dating Pete Wisdom for a while. Then Colossus died to cure the Legacy virus, and everyone was sad.But then he came back, in the hands of Joss Whedon and John Cassaday in Astonishing X-Men. Kitty Pryde finds Piotr and their romance is rekindled in a much more legally consensual way. Whedon handles the dialog very well and nails the hesitation and then, ultimately, the joy of finally coming together after so many years. Cassaday draws their scenes with a perfect sense of intimacy, and then, of course, there is the final tragic ending.Sure the whole thing is awfully similar to the relationship dynamics of Whedon’s Buffy and Angel, but why not? The X-Men have many great relationships, but this one stands out in our minds. The two characters feel forever tied together, and their relationship casts a shadow on all others that they enter into, be it Kitty dating Iceman, or Colossus shacking up with Domino.
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