Giant Size X-Men: Nightcrawler

[ericng]

The team went back to the old mansion through the Krakoa gateway. There they found some images of Rachel and Warpath. They followed Rachel down a tunnel.

In the tunnel, Rachel disintegrated into a bunch of Sidris. Cypher was absorbed by the tunnel into another section.

While the rest of the team fought the Sidri, Cypher managed to communicate with the Sidri as to what was happening.

Magik managed to find Cypher and found Warlock too. She teleported Cypher back to the rest of the team.

Cypher explained that the mansion was infested by the Sidri after they left for Krakoa.

Soon after, a mutant Lady Mastermind wanted to use the gateway but was trapped by the Sidri thinking she was a threat.

Lady Mastermind used her illusion powers to call for help invoking images of Rachel and Warpath.

Lady Mastermind was freed by Cypher and ?Warlock? and invited to Krakoa by the team.

This really should be called Giant Size New Mutants instead. Nightcrawler didn't do much.

PS: Can somebody put the spoilers and discussion to the title?

[Veitha]

This was... Not amazing for me. It was very quick, it didn't have enough Nightcrawler and was kinda random.

I loved the art though. And I'm curious about what the heck Cypher and Warlock are doing.

[Ferro]

i loved it but it certaintly wasnt too focused on kurt, but it was nice to see warlock! The story threads are moving considerably faster than hickman's previous work

[Steroid]

Didn't like this at all. It's pretty much the weakest issue Hickman has put out since taking over the franchise. Alan Davis did great though on the art side of things.

[pkingdom]

I'm confused. What was the point? Did Lady Mastermind really need a Giant-Size issue to get her to Krakoa? And why was this called a Nightcrawler story?

[Woozie]

Biggest issue with this issue is that it's decompressed to all hell.

Like this story realistically could have been told in 4 pages tops.

[Tycon]

Biggest issue with this issue is that it's decompressed to all hell.

Like this story realistically could have been told in 4 pages tops.

Lay out the four pages for us.

[Woozie]

Lay out the four pages for us.

Page 1:
The Team enter through the gate remarking about the odd mutant signature they took note of.
Kurt requests Eyeboy to do a scan.
Eyeboy notes that while he can't pick up any singlular person, he does see movement all around them
Lockheed goes wild
Kurt goes to calm him down, but is then sees something

Page 2
Panel 6: Confronted by the illusion (That everybody sees and not just Kurt)
Panel 7: They try to dogpile Illusion rachel, but she dodges out of the way
Panel 8: Run after her down the hall way
Panel 9: Second attempt, this time they succeed
Panel 10: Illusion fades and the sidri scatter

Page 3
Doug goes through the wall
Doug confronted with the alien tech
Illyana follows immediately after him (rather than just fucking around and not)
Kurt and Eyeboy fight off the sidri alone
They're pushed into the area where Lady Mastermind is being stored

Page 4
Warlock reveal
Doug requests Magik keeps it a secret
Warlock interfaces with the tech
Cut back to Nightcrawler and Eyeboy fighting
Magik and Doug appear
Fight disolves

Page 5
Whoops lady mastermind all along
Leave

Give it a leeway wind of about 3 or so pages so somewhere between 4 and 8.


edit: And that's not even me Claremounting it.

[pkingdom]

Biggest issue with this issue is that it's decompressed to all hell.

Like this story realistically could have been told in 4 pages tops.

Seems to be a running theme for these giant sized stories. Jean Grey/Emma Frost took an entire issue to tell a story that normally lasts a single panel, one page at most.

[ericng]

Biggest issue with this issue is that it's decompressed to all hell.

Yeah, agree.

Hickman should have explained why the Sidri decided to migrate to X-Men mansion and to Earth and also why Warlock had to hide inside Cypher's arm.

That would have made the story more interesting.

[PetPigeon]

They pretty much already said these Giant-Size issues are mainly to be artist show cases with a small story. The art here was beautiful and I really enjoyed it.

[scouse mouse]

I love Lady Mastermind and I'm gutted my comic shop is closed in the UK so I cant pick this up. But wasnt Regan already on Krakoa? They made a point of showing her next to Sinister when all the former villains arrived. Or had she left, and then couldn't get back?

[Godlike13]

This was a miss for me. Not sure why it was titled Nightcrawler.

[JB]

Not my favorite but there were some nuggets of intrigue.

First of all, Kurt is a sexy stud.



Warlock! So that explains that scene in the Crucible issue. I guess he's hiding because he's not a mutant?

This batch of Sidri now live in the mansion. Lovely.

Eye-boy was great here, I gotta say.

[Havok83]

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