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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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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 · 22 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 · 7 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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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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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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heckcareoxytwit · 5 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 · 7 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 · 7 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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karmirage · 10 months

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some fun facts for the @tournament-of-x voters

The oldest contestants currently in the match (and by oldest, I mean “the date of their first appearance”, not their actual ages) are Magneto, Jean Grey, Bobby Drake/Iceman, and Scott Summers/Cyclops. All four of them first appear in X-Men #1 in 1963.

The youngest contestant currently in the match (again, in terms of the dates of their first appearance, not actual age) is Gwendolyn Poole/Gwenpool, who first debuted in Howard the Duck #1 in 2015.

Of the contestants, only Laura Kinney/Wolverine appeared first on screen -- her first ever appearance was in Season 3, Episode 10 of X-Men: Evolution in August of 2003. This would be later followed by her first comic appearance in NYX #3, in December of 2003.

As far as classic teams go: the 33 characters remaining include three of the original five X-Men (Jean, Bobby, Scott), four of the classic nine New Mutants (Xuân Cao Mạnh/Karma, Dani Moonstar/Mirage, Roberto da Costa/Sunspot, and Illyana Rasputin/Magik -- Dani, Xuân, and Roberto are also founding members), and two people who have two first appearances (both Illyana and Nathan Summers/Cable appear in canon continuity as babies/toddlers prior to appearing later under their aliases -- Illyana appears in Giant-Sized X-Men #1 in 1975 and Nathan appears in Uncanny X-Men #201 in 1985). Two contestants are also part of the iconic Giant-Sized X-Men team created in 1975 -- Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler and Ororo Munroe/Storm. Two members of the original Generation X remain (Monet St. Croix/M/Penance and Jubilation Lee/Jubilee), as well as two from the Academy X era (David Alleyne and Megan Gwynn, from the New Mutants second generation team and the Paragons, respectively), three if you choose to count Laura Kinney/Wolverine, who joined the remaining students of New X-Men vol. 2 just after M-Day.

All the contestants save nine made their first appearances in X-books (X-Men, Giant-Sized X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, New Mutants, X-Factor, X-Force, Generation X, X-Men: Evolution and New X-Men). The ones who do not first appear in X-books are Mystique (Ms. Marvel #18 in 1978, though she technically had a cameo appearance two issues prior), Xuân Cao Mạnh/Karma (Marvel Team-Up #100 in 1980), Anna Marie Lebeau/Rogue (Avengers Annual #10, 1981), Dani Moonstar/Mirage and Roberto da Costa/Sunspot (both in Marvel Graphic Novel #4 in 1983), Billy Kaplan-Altman/Wiccan (Young Avengers #1, 2005), Tommy Shepherd/Speed (Young Avengers #10, 2006), Eden Fesi/Manifold (Secret Warriors #4, 2009), and Gwendolyn Poole/Gwenpool (Howard the Duck #1, 2015).

Demographically speaking, four characters in the tournament are canonically Jewish -- Magneto, Kate Pryde, Billy Kaplan-Altman/Wiccan, and Bobby Drake/Iceman (thanks for the reminder, @/ant-ifascottlang!) Though it hasn’t been confirmed, one might assume that Tommy Shepherd/Speed and Lorna Dane/Polaris are also Jewish, being related to them.

The 70s and the 80s are proving themselves to be the most popular -- 8 candidates that were created in the 70s are still in the tournament (Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler, Ororo Munroe/Storm, Illyana Rasputin/Magik, Mystique, Jean-Paul Beaubier/Northstar, Jeanne-Marie Beaubier/Aurora, Kitty/Kate Pryde, and Emma Frost/White Queen), and 8 characters created in the 80s are still in the tournament as well (Irene Adler/Destiny, Xuân Cao Mạnh/Karma, Anna Marie Lebeau/Rogue, Dani Moonstar/Mirage, Roberto da Costa/Sunspot, Nathan Summers/Cable, Julio Richter/Rictor, and Jubilation Lee/Jubilee).

Of the other decades: seven characters were introduced in the 2000s (Eloise Phimister/Negasonic Teenage Warhead, David Alleyne/Prodigy, Laura Kinney/Wolverine, Megan Gwynn/Pixie, Billy Kaplan-Altman/Wiccan, Tommy Shepherd/Speed, and Eden Fesi/Manifold), five were introduced in the 60s (Magneto, Jean Grey, Bobby Drake/Iceman, Scott Summers/Cyclops, and Lorna Dane/Polaris), and four were introduced in the 90s (Remy Lebeau/Gambit, Lucas Bishop, Neena Thurman/Domino, and Monet St. Croix/M/Penance). Gwendolyn Poole/Gwenpool is the only character remaining in the tournament to be introduced after 2010.

One character is canonically Muslim -- Monet St. Croix/M/Penance.

Eleven characters are canonically LGBTQ+: Bobby Drake/Iceman, Mystique, Jean-Paul Beaubier/Northstar, Kitty/Kate Pryde, Irene Adler/Destiny, Xuân Cao Mạnh/Karma, Julio Richter/Rictor, David Alleyne/Prodigy, Billy Kaplan-Altman/Wiccan, Tommy Shepherd/Speed, and Gwendolyn Poole/Gwenpool.

Laura Kinney/Wolverine, Remy Lebeau/Gambit (thanks for the reminder, @/souldagger!) and Megan Gwynn/Pixie have been confirmed by writers to be queer, but there has been no on-panel confirmation for any of them beyond Pixie’s appearance/alternate dimension self in Secret Wars.

Without counting the upcoming Uncanny Avengers, at least three characters have been recurring Avengers -- Anna Marie Lebeau/Rogue, Roberto da Costa/Sunspot, and Eden Fesi/Manifold. Rogue and Sunspot also notably led teams of Avengers. Several other candidates have been Young Avengers -- David Alleyne/Prodigy, Billy Kaplan-Altman/Wiccan (who was a founding member), and Tommy Shepherd/Speed.

Ten characters are mutants of color -- Ororo Munroe/Storm is Kenyan-American and grew up in Cairo, Xuân Cao Mạnh/Karma is Vietnamese, Dani Moonstar/Mirage is Indigenous American, specifically Cheyenne, Roberto da Costa is Afrolatino and from Brazil, Julio Richter/Rictor is Mexican, Jubilation Lee/Jubilee is Chinese-American, Lucas Bishop is Aboriginal Australian/Black American (according to Chris Claremont, who confirmed that Bishop is indeed descended from Aboriginal Australian mutant Gateway), Monet St. Croix/M/Penance is Monacan-Algerian, David Alleyne/Prodigy is a Black American, and Eden Fesi/Manifold is Aboriginal Australian.

While Laura Kinney/Wolverine first appeared as a visibly brown girl in X-Men: Evolution, her design has since been lightened and she does not have a confirmed ethnicity.

Only eight of the remaining contestants have never appeared in live-action adaptations -- Irene Adler/Destiny, Xuân Cao Mạnh/Karma (though her name is shown on a computer screen in X2: X-Men United), Jean-Paul Beaubier/Northstar, Jeanne-Marie Beaubier/Aurora, David Alleyne/Prodigy, Megan Gwynn/Pixie, Eden Fesi/Manifold, and Gwendolyn Poole/Gwenpool. Of these, only Karma, Penance, Prodigy, Manifold, and Gwenpool have no on-screen appearances at all -- the others appear in the various animated series (Destiny has a recurring appearance in X-Men: Evolution, Pixie pops up in Wolverine and the X-Men, and the Beaubier twins appear in the X-Men cartoon of the 90s). While Penance is listed on Wikipedia as being in Wolverine and the X-Men, it does not cite an episode, though her twin younger sisters appear in Season 1 Episode 10 “Greetings from Genosha.” **this post has been corrected -- Monet St. Croix/M/Penance appears in the direct to TV Generation X movie (thanks for the reminder, @/cranechel!)

#tournament of x #long post #this isn't propaganda this is just some fun facts :) for anyone who would like to see it #i spent way too long on this #edit to add: now updated. more fun facts. peace and love on planet hyperfixation

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