Man, inverted Nightcrawler fights dirty! (and is kicking...

Man, inverted Nightcrawler fights dirty! (and is kicking Sabretooth’s ass rather handily)

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Nightcrawler

I’ve been reading interviews with Jason Aaron about Amazing X-Men and it has fully put me at ease. I already trusted Aaron a lot, I love WATXM, Thor, and a bunch of his other stuff, he’s never let me down, one of my favorite writers to be sure. But there was always the problem with Nightcrawler of which version of the character he would use. Nightcrawler was for years a fun and adventurous type who also happened to be Catholic, then it got all flipped around and all the fun aspects faded to the background for the most part and it was all religion and angst. bleh. I never liked that. I always liked him best in Excalibur, which remains to this day one of my favorite series of all time. (despite the fact that I normally don’t like Claremont, it’s weird. But I liked later runs too, Warren Ellis’ in particular, even if Kurt’s costume was bizarre) But it sounds like Nightcrawler is the favorite X-character of both him and Ed McGuinness (who described himself as a ‘Nightcrawler superfan’) and both of them loved Excalibur in particular. I kinda figured that may be the case, given that WATXM has much the same tone as old school Excalibur, but it’s a relief to have it confirmed. The cast lineup also intrigues me, but I feel Kitty Pryde needs to be in the book. But he said that anyone who taught at the school could also show up in Amazing, so she (and Rachel! we could have an Excalibur reunion of sorts) could pop up. I think what he has planned for Northstar sounds interesting, said he was going to be the voice of dissent, and wanted to get creative with his powers.

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(via Nightcrawler’s Back In Amazing X-Men - First Look And...

(via Nightcrawler’s Back In Amazing X-Men - First Look And FOC Special - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors)

*squeal!* with swords! so the FUN Nightcrawler! (I dislike him in angsty priest mode)

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When people are like "Kurt had a great life as a kid!"

wow, this must have happened during the few years I stepped away from reading comics. That’s a horrible retcon to his backstory for all the reasons listed above. I’ll just keep his original backstory in my headcanon.

Yeah, it was pretty bad. I remember looking forward to it because it had been such a long time since ANYTHING had been done with the character. That story felt like a slap in the face to everything that came before. What’s the purpose of having serialized storytelling if we’re not going to abide by literally anything that came before? Though, comics have been doing that a lot lately…

Yeah, well, kinda standard practice with superhero comics in general… I love the characters, and still like reading the books, but the constant retconning can be a bit much at times (though sometimes a retcon can fix a previous problem… but usually just serves to make the backstories needlessly complex) sometimes you just have to pick and choose what to accept in your personal canon. I’m not going to accept this.

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