Is Marvel Comics anti-Christian? Or is it just an accident that Christians (or thinkly disguised Christians) have been portrayed as villains since before Messiah War; or that California is lionized for its “tolerance”; or that the token Catholic was killed protecting the mutant messiah?
In any case, religion or ideology aside, Nightcrawler (along with Logan and Rogue) was always one of my favorite characters, just as Cyclops (a colorless piece of cardboard, no matter how bada_s they try to make him, even in the Age of Apocalypse) will always be was one of my peeves. Nightcrawler always refused to be as flat as his teammates, in part because his demonic appearance contrasted so sharply with his character.
Which rather makes me wonder at the times that Marvel would magnify characters without substance or with poorly contrived back stories while ignoring those with better narrative potential. I mean, seriously, they gave Psylocke a shout-out pseudo-Kill Bill miniseries when Rogue or Gambit or Nightcrawler himself sure as inferno deserved a solo title better–especially now that there are so few mutants to go around, and they have a chance to shine.
DC, for its part, initially cast aside Barbara Gordon (without first seriously considering, for instance, how she adjusted growing older with her planned-to-be-outgrown hero role), but at least that felix culpa gave us Oracle. What do we get from Nightcrawler dying–that is, aside from trading emotional space for time, after Marvel wrote itself into a trap with the persecution-myopic post-Decimation storylines?
Deus vobiscum.
Bitch, please.
X-Men Legacy IS a Rogue solo title. And Nightcrawler’s one shot sold waaaaaaay less than Psylocke. He’s just not that popular. Get ur facts straight.
Thank you for the correction, Lovelyless.
Though I have reservations about citing the popularity of Nightcrawler vis-a-vis Psylocke’s as a counter-argument. My point was that Nightcrawler had more narrative potential, or otherwise stated, that he had more character depth, and not that he sells more copies. Besides, I rather doubt myself that Psylocke’s popularity is entirely due to the literary merit of her conceptualization.
God bless you.
I thought these things were more graphic than literary?