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karenxmenfan · 9 months

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Kurt Wagner, Nightcrawler (2/x)

#bw #fan art #x-men #nightcrawler #kurt wagner #excalibur #giant size x-men #dave cockrum

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smashedpages · 25 days

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On this date in 1975, the all-new, all-different X-Men debut in Giant-Size X-Men #1, introducing Storm, Nightcrawler and Colossus! Also debuting: Thunderbird and the future Magik of the New Mutants. Oh and some guy named Wolverine might’ve been there, too. By Len Wein and Dave Cockrum!

#len wein #dave cockrum #comics #comic books #marvel #comics to remember #x-men #giant size x-men #wolverine #colossus #nightcrawler #storm #professor x #banshee #thunderbird #sunfire

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nightcrawlys · 8 months

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Giant-Size X-Men (1975) #1 pt. 2

#giant size x men #nightcrawler #x men comics

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theredqueenandthebloodwyrm · 7 months

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Nightcrawler

I don't have an obsession with Nightcrawler, you do--.

Nah but for real, if I had to pick just one X-Men / Mutant character as my favorite? Can't go wrong with Nightcrawler! (ugh the torture of just having one favorite. I have 100s of favorites at a time, I like every character--with some exceptions). It's the ears and the tail. definitely the tail is like 50% of the appeal plus his personality. also his fur must make him so soft, I wanna hug him please. sulking because I want what I can't have. Can someone Gwen Poole me into Marvel Comics please?

Anyways I'm skipping to good stuff, the classics, the one and only CLAREMONT ERA WOOOoooo. But first (according to my reading guide) I need to read Giant-Size X-Men (1975) issue 1 and woooo I'm lovin' it! The one, the only KURT WAGNER.

I'm really digging the art? Dave Cockrum (the illustrator) + Glynis Wein (the colorist) do great art. WOAH Glynis Wein is a lady? a woman? that's so fucking cool!

Look at that art! Those flames! the lines and the colors! it's beautiful!

#dave cockrum #glynis wein #nightcrawler #kurt wagner #giant sized xmen #giant-size x-men (1975)#issue 1 (1975)

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graphicpolicy · 6 months

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X-Men Krakoa Era Reading Guide Part 1

X-Men Krakoa Era Reading Guide Part 1. Get caught up with the X-journey! #xmen #hox #pox #comics #comicbooks

So you want to read the Krakoa Era of X-Men? Well, you’ve come to the right place! We here at Graphic Policy are going to be publishing a series of (mostly) comprehensive reading guides for the Krakoan Era. We’re starting with House of X, Powers of X, Dawn of X, and finally X of Swords. Now before we dig into the reading guide let me preface this all by saying that we’re gonna be covering a lot…

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possessionisamyth · 2 years

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Several things we learn about nightcrawler from this spread

1) he makes his face shadowed on purpose so hes a huge dork who loves drama

2) he does have fangs in his mouth on the top and bottom, but theyre subtle, no venom or fucked up vamp fangs here

3) he's tall, 5'10", but has a hunched posture

4)his hands are normal sized, but the thickness of his fingers would be equivalent to making the vulcan gesture with your hands

5) when drawing him make sure his prehensile tail is coming from his spine and not his butthole thanks

In other news, i love him your honor❤️

#kurt wagner #nightcrawler #xmen #x-men #giant sized xmen hardcover

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x-istential-crisis · 9 months

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I love when he’s mean it’s so hot

Giant-Sized X-Men #1

Len Wein and Dave Cockrum

#Giant-sized x-men #more like #giant-sized sex man #xmen #uncanny x men #x men #x men comics #comics #nightcrawler #kurt wagner #dave cockrum #len wein

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marvelousmrm · 1 year

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Giant-Size X-Men #1 (Wein/Cockrum, May 1975). This issue really does feel like such a big deal, with implications that stretch back and forth from this point. Professor X recruits a new team of mutants to find the original X-Men, who’ve gone missing on a mysterious island. A thrilling adventure; mismatched teammates with distinct powers and problems; and even a giant monster! It’s a perfect synthesis of everything Marvel’s done well for the past fifteen years… and a proposal for what comes next. Fantastic.

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merrymarvelite · 2 years

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Cover of the Day: Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May, 1975) Art by Gil Kane, Dave Cockrum, & Danny Crespi

#Marvel #Comics #Giant-Size #X-Men #Storm #Ororo Munroe #Colossus #Piotr Rasputin #Nightcrawler #Kurt Wagner #Thunderbird #John Proudstar #Cyclops #Scott Summers #Wolverine #Logan

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cyavillaarts · 2 years

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Giant Size X-Men

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racefortheironthrone · 5 months

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What did you think of X-Men Blue Origins?

(I may turn this into a People's History of the Marvel Universe later today, so keep an eye on this space.)

X-Men Blue: Origins and the Power of the Additive Retcon

(WARNING: heavy spoilers under the cut)

Introduction

If you've been a long-time X-Men reader, or you're a listener of Jay & Miles or Cerebrocast or any number of other LGBT+ X-Men podcasts, you probably know the story about how Chris Claremont wrote Mystique and Destiny as a lesbian couple, but had to use obscure verbiage and subtextual coding to get past Jim Shooter's blanket ban on LGBT+ characters in the Marvel Universe.

Likewise, you're probably also familiar with the story that, when Chris Claremont came up with the idea that Raven Darkholme and Kurt Wagner were related (a plot point set up all the way back in Uncanny X-Men #142), he intended that Mystique was Nightcrawler's father, having used her shapeshifting powers to take on a male body and impregnate (her one true love) Irene. This would have moved far beyond subtext - but it proved to be a bridge too far for Marvel editorial, and Claremont was never able to get it past S&P.

This lacuna in the backstories of Kurt and Raven - who was Kurt's father? - would remain one of the enduring mysteries of the X-Men mythos...and if there's one thing that comic writers like, it's filling in these gaps with a retcon.

Enter the Draco

Before I get into the most infamous story in all of X-Men history, I want to talk about retcons a bit. As I've written before:

"As long as there have been comic books, there have been retcons. For all that they have acquired a bad reputation, retcons can be an incredibly useful tool in comics writing and shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand. Done right, retcons can add an enormous amount of depth and breadth to a character, making their worlds far richer than they were before. Instead, I would argue that retcons should be judged on the basis of whether they’re additive (bringing something new to the character by showing us a previously unknown aspect of their lives we never knew existed before) or subtractive (taking away something from the character that had previously been an important part of their identity), and how well those changes suit the character."

For a good example of an additive retcon, I would point to Chris Claremont re-writing Magneto's entire personality by revealing that he was a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. As I have argued at some length, this transformed Magneto from a Doctor Doom knockoff into a complex and sympathetic character who could now work as a villain, anti-villain, anti-hero, or hero depending on the needs of the story.

For a good example of a subtractive retcon, I would point to...the Draco. If you're not familiar with this story, the TLDR is that it was revealed that Kurt's father was Azazel - an evil ancient mutant with the same powers and the same appearance (albeit color-shifted) as Kurt, who claims to be the devil and is part of a tribe of demonic-looking mutants who were banished to the Brimstone Dimension, and who fathered Nightcrawler as part of a plot to end this banishment.

I don't want to belabor Chuck Austen, because I think that Connor Goldsmith is right about his run actually being a camp cult classic in retrospect. However, I think we both agree that the Draco was a misfire, because of how the retcon undermined Kurt's entire thematic purpose as established in Giant-Size X-Men that Nightcrawler was actually a noble and arguably saintly man who suffered from unjust prejudice due to the random accident that his mutation made him appear to be a demon, and because of how the retcon undermined the centrality of Mystique and Destiny's relationship.

X-Men Blue Origins

This brings us to the Krakoan era. In HOXPOX and X-Men and Inferno, Jonathan Hickman had made Mystique and Destiny a crucial part of the story in a way that they hadn't been in decades: they were the great nemeses of Moira X, they were the force that threatened to burn Krakoa to the ground by revealing the devil's bargain that Xavier had struck with Sinister (and Moira), they were the lens through which the potential futures of Krakoa were explored, and they ultimately reshaped the Quiet Council and the Five in incredibly consequential ways.

This throughline was furthered after Hickman's departure, with Kieron Gillen exploring the backstories of Mystique and Destiny in Immortal X-Men and Sins of Sinister, and both Gillen and Si Spurrier exploring their relationship with Nightcrawler in AXE Judgement Day, Sins of Sinister, Way of X, Legion of X, Nightcrawlers, and Sons of X. One of the threads that wove through the interconnected fabric of these books was an increasing closeness between Kurt and Irene that needed an explanation. Many long-time readers began to anticipate that a retcon about Kurt's parentage was coming - and then we got X-Men Blue: Origins.

In this one issue, Si Spurrier had the difficult assignment of figuring out a way to "fix" the Draco and restore Claremont's intended backstory in a way that was surgical and elegant, that served the character arcs of Kurt, Raven, and Irene, and that dealt with complicated issues of trans and nonbinary representation, lesbian representation, disability representation, and the protean nature of the mutant metaphor. Thanks to help from Charlie Jane Anders and Steve Foxe, I think Spurrier succeeded tremendously.

I don't want to go through the issue beat-by-beat, because you should all read it, but the major retcon is that Mystique turns out to be a near-Omega level shapeshifter, who can rewrite themselves on a molecular level. Raven transformed into a male body and impregnated Irene, using bits of Azazel and many other men's DNA as her "pigments." In addition to being a deeply felt desire on both their parts to have a family together, this was part of Irene's plan to save them both (and the entire world) from Azazel's schemes, a plan that required them to abandon Kurt as a scapegoat-savior (a la Robert Graves' King Jesus), and to have Xavier wipe both their memories.

Now, I'm not the right person to write about what this story means on a representational level; I'll leave it to my LGBT+ colleagues on the Cerebrocast discord and elsewhere to discuss the personal resonances the story had for them.

What I will say, however, is that I thought this issue threaded the needle of all of these competing imperatives very deftly. It "fixed" the Draco without completely negating it, it really deepened and complicated the characters and relationships of both Raven and Irene (by showing that, in a lot of ways, Destiny is the more ruthless and manipulative of the two), and it honored Kurt's core identity as a man of hope and compassion (even if it did put him in a rather thankless ingénue role for much of the book).

It is the very acme of an additive retcon; nothing was lost, everything was gained.

I still think the baby Nightcrawler is just a bad bit, but then again I don't really vibe with Spurrier's comedic stylings.

#xmen #xmen meta #raven darkholme #kurt wagner #irene adler #xmen blue #nightcrawler #mystique #destiny #chris claremont #si spurrier #krakoa #retcons #xmen spoilers #hoxpox

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heckcareoxytwit · 6 months

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The Introduction of the All-New X-Men of the second genesis by different artists

1st pic = Intro page by Alex Ross

2nd, 3rd and 4th pics = Nightcrawler pages by Kevin Nowlan, Chris Samnee, Matthew Wilson, Marcus To and Sunny Gho

5th and 6th pics = Wolverine pages by Siya Oum, Stephen Segovia and Rain Beredo

7th and 8th pics = Banshee and Storm pages by Marguerite Sauvage, Carmen Carnero and David Curiel

9th pic = Storm, Sunfire and Colossus page by Bernard Chang and Marcelo Maiolo

10th and 11th pics = Colossus pages by Aaron Kuder, Jordie Bellaire, Takeshi Miyazawa and Ian Herring

12th pic = Colossus and Thunderbird page by Juan Cabal and Federico Blee

13th pic = Thunderbird page by Gurihiru

14th pic = Professor Xavier and the All-New X-Men recruits page by Mark Brooks

15th pic = Professor Xavier, Cyclops and the All-New X-Men page by Kris Anka

--- Giant-Size X-Men: Tribute to Wein & Cockrum, 2020

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xmencovered · 8 months

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ALL 15 X-MEN ALEX ROSS TIMELESS VIRGIN SKETCH VARIANTS / Published: 2020 / Artist: Alex Ross

Giant Size X-Men 1 - Storm

Rogue and Gambit 1 - Mystique

Sins of Sinister Dominion 1 - Apocalypse

Hellions 5 - Phoenix

Excalibur 13 - Nightcrawler

Marauders 13 - Iceman

X-Men 20 - Dark Phoenix

X-Factor 4 - Angel

X-Force 13 - Beast

Wolverine 6 - Wolverine

Scarlet Witch 4 - Magneto

Wolverine 31 - White Queen

Captain Marvel 47 - Juggernaut

X-Men 13 - Cyclops

New Mutants 13 - Colossus

#cover set #2020s xmen #alex ross #xmen #marvel

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nightcrawlys · 8 months

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Giant-Size X-Men (1975) #1 pt.1

#nightcrawler #x men comics #giant-size x-men

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comicbookhyperfixationtime · 8 days

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Hello. You don’t have to answer this if you don’t want to, but you seem pretty knowledgeable on the subject.

I wanted to know if you have any suggestions on how to start reading Nightcrawler’s comics? I’ve heard that Giant-Size X-Men and the Excalibur series are the good places to start?

I’m only familiar with Kurt through the animated TV series (X-Men Evolution, Wolverine and the X-Men, etc.), so any help with getting into his comic-verse self would be appreciated.

There’s literally no better question to ask me! I do 100% recommend starting with Giant Sized X-men and moving on to Claremont’s run. Depending on your patience, you can read through the entire X-men run until Excalibur like I did, but if you just want Nightcrawler and nothing else and don’t mind missing out on some context, skip around to focus on storylines where he’s featured (I can’t remember specific examples atm). You can also start by reading his 1985 miniseries which is a fantastic introduction to his comic character (it’s Kurt in his purest form) if, again, you don’t mind not having all the context.

#comic books #marvel comics #nightcrawler #kurt wagner #First anon ask! So glad it’s a nice one.#asks

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graphicpolicy · 5 months

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People's History of the Marvel Universe, Week 21: X-Men Blue Origins and the Power of the Additive Retcon

People's History of the Marvel Universe, Week 21: X-Men Blue Origins and the Power of the Additive Retcon #comics #xmen #comicbooks

(WARNING: heavy spoilers for X-Men Blue: Origins) Introduction If you’ve been a long-time X-Men reader, or you’re a listener of Jay & Miles or Cerebrocast or any number of other LGBT+ X-Men podcasts, you probably know the story about how Chris Claremont wrote Mystique and Destiny as a lesbian couple, but had to use obscure verbiage and subtextual coding to get past Jim Shooter‘s blanket ban on…

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#charlie jane anders #chris claremont #chuck austen #comic books #Comics #destiny #featured #giant size x-men #jim shooter #jonathan hickman #kieron gillen #marvel #mystique #nightcrawler #si spurrier #steve foxe #uncanny x-men #x-men #x-men blue: origins

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