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Nightcrawler (2014) (Single Issues)
Nightcrawler #2
Someone is hunting down Nightcrawler's loved ones...and Nightcrawler and Wolverine are determined to find out who and to what ends!
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19 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 14, 2014
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Chris Claremont
3,283 books896 followersChris Claremont is a writer of American comic books, best known for his 16-year (1975-1991) stint on Uncanny X-Men, during which the series became one of the comic book industry's most successful properties.
Claremont has written many stories for other publishers including the Star Trek Debt of Honor graphic novel, his creator-owned Sovereign Seven for DC Comics and Aliens vs Predator for Dark Horse Comics. He also wrote a few issues of the series WildC.A.T.s (volume 1, issues #10-13) at Image Comics, which introduced his creator-owned character, Huntsman.
Outside of comics, Claremont co-wrote the Chronicles of the Shadow War trilogy, Shadow Moon (1995), Shadow Dawn (1996), and Shadow Star (1999), with George Lucas. This trilogy continues the story of Elora Danan from the movie Willow. In the 1980s, he also wrote a science fiction trilogy about female starship pilot Nicole Shea, consisting of First Flight (1987), Grounded! (1991), and Sundowner (1994). Claremont was also a contributor to the Wild Cards anthology series.
Claremont has written many stories for other publishers including the Star Trek Debt of Honor graphic novel, his creator-owned Sovereign Seven for DC Comics and Aliens vs Predator for Dark Horse Comics. He also wrote a few issues of the series WildC.A.T.s (volume 1, issues #10-13) at Image Comics, which introduced his creator-owned character, Huntsman.
Outside of comics, Claremont co-wrote the Chronicles of the Shadow War trilogy, Shadow Moon (1995), Shadow Dawn (1996), and Shadow Star (1999), with George Lucas. This trilogy continues the story of Elora Danan from the movie Willow. In the 1980s, he also wrote a science fiction trilogy about female starship pilot Nicole Shea, consisting of First Flight (1987), Grounded! (1991), and Sundowner (1994). Claremont was also a contributor to the Wild Cards anthology series.
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June 3, 2014
The description to this issue is a bit misleading since Wolverine is nowhere to be found but it's what was on the Comixology page of that issue.
If anything, this series has excellent covers so far by some accomplished artist. Chris Samnee did the first issue and now, Jamie McKelvie does a pretty striking minimalist cover.
Since the first issue was relatively sparse of words, I was thinking this may be the issue Claremont goes back to his verbose ways. Not yet it seems and none of his dependable lines that peppered his X-Men run with.
I'll probably spend the next issue, if I can get a copy, looking for such Claremont-isms.
If anything, this series has excellent covers so far by some accomplished artist. Chris Samnee did the first issue and now, Jamie McKelvie does a pretty striking minimalist cover.
Since the first issue was relatively sparse of words, I was thinking this may be the issue Claremont goes back to his verbose ways. Not yet it seems and none of his dependable lines that peppered his X-Men run with.
I'll probably spend the next issue, if I can get a copy, looking for such Claremont-isms.
November 13, 2016
Wow, so this issue the author remembered to address Margali as Kurt's mother, and apparently since he did not refer to her as a gypsy anymore the artist did not use the stereotypical clothes seen so often and Margali already has her green-skinned and horned form in the flashback... this actually works much better than the usual version if you ask me. Since due to that we are not presented with the usual stereotypical gypsy look that we usually got and so their clothes and caravans got an update to a more contemporary look (not that their looks ever fitted west-German Roma).
However, "Der Jahrmarkt" is still neither a name nor term for a circus!!!
Also Winzeldorf changed locations once more. It is "high in the mountains of Bavaria" (which could be anywhere) and has a big river. Which as far as I am aware off, exists nowhere in the Bavarian Alps.
Also apparently the story goes with Amanda having been useless against the attacker and even though it has Kurt say that it is fate that he is in Winzeldorf again, I would say it is simply a sign of laziness/uncreativity on part of the writer. As it is pretty clear to me that writers simply refuse to use any other location.
But still, there is a plus point that the artist actually does let teenage Kurt and Amanda look like teenagers. But in the Winzeldorf crowd there are only white people with two Africans (even these are tourists than East Asians would be more likely) and the writer apparently completely forgot that back in the day "Amanda" was still called "Jimaine". Plus why is this small travelling circus (with thousands of customers apparently) always in this one place?
But this is the least problem this story has. I mean Amanda should have had the chance to save Kurt. Weren't both of them in Excalibur? Did she never save his ass there or did Claremont just ignore that? And why is Amanda so far pushed into the helpless damsel role? She ruled Limbo once.
And then there are the names of their circus friends (albeit the conjoined twins are not around anymore), which seemed to have been chosen because they somehow sounded good to the writers originally. And instead of fixing that (because Marvel had so many retcons already they might as well use it) they stuck with the same dumb names. Just to illustrate how dumb they are, there are:
1) Haus: that name could not have sounded fitting in English either
2) Feuer: a name never chosen for a stage performer because it simply means "fire" and has no special connotations in German, "Brand" would have been fitting as it stands for Firebrand and is an actual name
3) Gummi: That name (meaning "rubber") could have worked if she acts as a sort of comedic performer.
And the things, they did retcon two of them, they kept the names but Feuer can now also shot fire from his eyes and Gummi is not simply dexterous but has powers like Mr. Fantastic... so where is the consistency regarding what they kept and what not? And why is Amanda already helpless again?
Then suddenly there were only 3 more pages of fighting and suddenly Haus, Feuer und Gummi no longer attack because... Haus now suddenly recognizes Kurt even though Feuer previously claimed Kurt was dead and all. And now everything is fine and everyone is chatty? Was a page left on the cutting room floor?
This was really not written well.
However, "Der Jahrmarkt" is still neither a name nor term for a circus!!!
Also Winzeldorf changed locations once more. It is "high in the mountains of Bavaria" (which could be anywhere) and has a big river. Which as far as I am aware off, exists nowhere in the Bavarian Alps.
Also apparently the story goes with Amanda having been useless against the attacker and even though it has Kurt say that it is fate that he is in Winzeldorf again, I would say it is simply a sign of laziness/uncreativity on part of the writer. As it is pretty clear to me that writers simply refuse to use any other location.
But still, there is a plus point that the artist actually does let teenage Kurt and Amanda look like teenagers. But in the Winzeldorf crowd there are only white people with two Africans (even these are tourists than East Asians would be more likely) and the writer apparently completely forgot that back in the day "Amanda" was still called "Jimaine". Plus why is this small travelling circus (with thousands of customers apparently) always in this one place?
But this is the least problem this story has. I mean Amanda should have had the chance to save Kurt. Weren't both of them in Excalibur? Did she never save his ass there or did Claremont just ignore that? And why is Amanda so far pushed into the helpless damsel role? She ruled Limbo once.
And then there are the names of their circus friends (albeit the conjoined twins are not around anymore), which seemed to have been chosen because they somehow sounded good to the writers originally. And instead of fixing that (because Marvel had so many retcons already they might as well use it) they stuck with the same dumb names. Just to illustrate how dumb they are, there are:
1) Haus: that name could not have sounded fitting in English either
2) Feuer: a name never chosen for a stage performer because it simply means "fire" and has no special connotations in German, "Brand" would have been fitting as it stands for Firebrand and is an actual name
3) Gummi: That name (meaning "rubber") could have worked if she acts as a sort of comedic performer.
And the things, they did retcon two of them, they kept the names but Feuer can now also shot fire from his eyes and Gummi is not simply dexterous but has powers like Mr. Fantastic... so where is the consistency regarding what they kept and what not? And why is Amanda already helpless again?
Then suddenly there were only 3 more pages of fighting and suddenly Haus, Feuer und Gummi no longer attack because... Haus now suddenly recognizes Kurt even though Feuer previously claimed Kurt was dead and all. And now everything is fine and everyone is chatty? Was a page left on the cutting room floor?
This was really not written well.
June 16, 2014
Artist, Todd Nauck, is inking his own pencils, to great effect.
Story-wise, Claremont is completely engaged, mixing Nightcrawler up with characters Claremont introduced more than thirty years back, his East European girlfriend Amanda Sefton and their mutual mother figure (!) Margali Swardoz. Hope I spelled that right.
Recommended.
Story-wise, Claremont is completely engaged, mixing Nightcrawler up with characters Claremont introduced more than thirty years back, his East European girlfriend Amanda Sefton and their mutual mother figure (!) Margali Swardoz. Hope I spelled that right.
Recommended.
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