Re-thinking Excalibur lately and, well, honestly, what do you really think about Alan Davis' characterization of Kurt? There's a definite high point somewhere in the first two arcs of Excalibur for me, but just before he takes his first leave from title so much of the hesitant reluctant would-be leader who lives like a heart on the sleeve, unsustainable when he's too out in the open keeps bulking up, transitions into this sort of - well, I don't blame Davis really, it's hard not to crush on Kurt and turn him into this shinning knight but he's not that guy to me...and the more I read Kurt post Mutant Massacre all the way through his death in Second Coming...the less I really feel like my Nightcrawler is there at all.
In panels and pages and short bursts wonderfully present. Like in Vol 3. by Aguirre-Sacasa / Robertson, kinda sorta in X-Infernus, in various Logan moments, often in battle or fight scenes he's stunningly in motion...but um,
So really I'm, for the sake of discussion mostly, I'm arguing that
the Kurt spiritually perished in Mutant Massacre and that in the first two runs of Excalibur his shinning spirit rekindled epically and somehow vanished and that the Nightcrawler who emerged was different, an imposter made to fit the big guns and big event arenas the became the X-franchise from the late 90's on through.
But then Aaron's Amazing is AMAZING.
And so, since then, well, I didn't like Red at all, from note one it clanged with a shallow sort of agenda that Kurt and his shadowy depth doesn't fit. And well, Hickman's HoXPoX Kurt fits so well to me in the complexity of ambiguity...he shines in that sort of...oh,
My goal here is to generate a discussion and reflect upon listening really...and responding.
It's been awhile since the thread has had discussion.
I've changed. I can put a finger almost on the panel and page where
something happened. And I didn't notice then, didn't know.
Comics are important. Ephemera, diaries, scraps, fragments, pocket-stuff, photos, the things we keep and return to...stuff we find, stuff, you know...fandom, randomness, meticulous forgotten-forget-me-nots that remember us before we say we know...so we don't, and do...um, yea.
And for me personally, AOA Nightcrawler was incredible because his bitterness flawed by that same good heart, felt so right. He wasn't a simple inversion. No he was a Kurt that had been seen in spirals of minor apocalypse, that defensive angry elf...only Kurt Darkholme embraced that...while Wagner resisted until it consumed him...nearly suicidal in MM...
So there...anybody have thoughts?
Also, now that it is over, Kurt Age of X-Man was one wonderful first issue with a really ugly cover (for me).
The rest of the 4 issue run couldn't possibly tell the story began in #1 and maybe condensing the whole thing into a single one shot would have been better. I'll most likely never revisit it and began backing out of it before AofXM ended.
I'm very interested in this guy now in this Dawn.
I believe in this beginning. (I think)
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One way to ask something about what I'm asking would be to ask what your favorite Kurt appearances (arcs, single issues, anything) are post Excalibur Cross-Time capper up to HoX/Pox.
And how do you feel about Hickman's Kurt and his role, characterization, place in this new dawn.
Where do you go to get your Kurt?
Maybe it's just a really good moment to be a swashbuckling shadow absorbent idealistic good hearted teleporting ex-trapeze cute freaky brave and empathetically flamboyant big hearted sensitive swinger? A lil wounded, and with resurrection as a guarantee, securely fit into a big family, a seat at the council...well, no net needed!