Originally Posted by
NicoPony
Thanks for the intel, Mal. No wonder Gambit is a caricature, if XTAS is the source material. That explains the falling down, butt of every joke, third-person speak crap. Liu is a big XTAS fan too, but she took the time to know Gambit and grow him into a big brother/good friend with emotional maturity. I remember fans panning Liu’s writing then, saying it was fanficy self-insertion. Especially if Gambit looked at anyone who wasn’t Rogue. Now where are we? “Self indulgent” is the description I can come up with about the last two years of Excalibur.