I wonder what Kurt is doing there. Maybe he’s an overseer for Krakoan teams. He makes sure nothing funky is going on, provides orders/instructions/guidance, and can pull rank on team leaders.
I wonder what Kurt is doing there. Maybe he’s an overseer for Krakoan teams. He makes sure nothing funky is going on, provides orders/instructions/guidance, and can pull rank on team leaders.
Whats "it" Sungila? I dont think he was ever a stand in for actual minorities with Storm, Karma , Dani, Rictor and both Thunderbirds who we had even back then before more modern comics. If anything Kurt may be for those who look different and I don't mean poc but people with RL physical mutations. The kind that were put in sideshows. Cockrums school friend may be happy to know his three-fingured hands inspired an iconic Marvel character and those who wrote in to the letters collums who had there own deformities for lack of a better word. He is also the only iconic character right now that has this. Characters like Chamber, Eyeboy etc. didn't catch on yet. Plus he is the first and a senior member and has wisdom that the younger characters dont have yet. This way these people don't have only Elephant Man and Quasimodo to relate too. But they can be a hero and live life like normal people where it doesn't end in tragedy.
Also, another point, Kurt looks like a demon and gets mistaken for one. Demon can mean demonization the demon is the ultimate fear of many people and the most evil thing. There may be a black person who doesn't feel like he can fit into his own community or even a gay person or a woman. That person that may feel like an outcast among outcasts and loathed and feared for whatever reason and seeing someone that looks like them isn't enough. Does that make sense to you? As a woman I have my own thoughts that I will not get into right now and there are plenty of X-Women.
Is Harry a Bear? Love this one, Vegan! You almost don't need words John Boltons art almost tells it.
It might be nice to see Kurt have some friction with someone. I know he practically gets along with everyone but he's warmblooded still. When was the last time Kurt had friction with anyone? Brian? I'll most likely going to stick to scans. The only one I'll probably buy is the Davis one-shot.
Harry is definitely a bear . Honestly, sometimes I think Bolton was better than Byrne and Cockrum. *runs away*
I agree it would be nice for Kurt to have some drama. At the same time I’m glad he didn’t take the bait when his mother(father?) made some jabs at his faith in HoX.
Bolton is exceedingly good, the four process colours in the old comics don't do him justice. Byrne and Cockrum were better at doing the colour-by-numbers line work needed at the time. His painted work is particularly fine.
So, so, so want Mystique to be daddy! So bad I can taste it.
We have no proof of what Mystique’s original gender is, nothing to say that she wasn’t born male and just chooses to look female, which is another reason to run with the idea as you can touch on gender politics in an interesting and superhero way.
I agree that the time is right to establish Kurt's real parents as Raven and Irene, especially with the characters being so prominent now in the comics. The whole Azazel travesty would need to be retconned away into something that makes sense though.
I have this great idea,why don't we always get a Kurt data page like he's the priest on Krakoa they go to confessions for.He logs everyone's inner highs or lows aspirations expectations or doubts and fears.It would be so much fun it would be like a peek into the ordinary life of Krakoans not beast's spy melodrama but actual heart to hearts to kurt.I don't want the data pages to be long just a paragraphs but mix in a few words of wisdom or contemplations by Kurt on every individual.Hickman should try this.It would be possible to give a few hints around the direction of story developments how Krakoa makes mutants feel a pulse on the nation that way we can know how the QC matches the true feelings of its citizens
Azazel is also on the Island, he was one of the villains Wolverine greeted at the start, which I hope is deliberate.
I don’t know how you could retcon it away, but I’m positive you could, neither Raven nor Azazel are reliable narrators.
I’d read that! Not sure I want him in a priestly role; personally I hate religious Kurt almost as much as son-of-a-demon/mutant Kurt but the idea of his diary, full of insights into Island life would be fun. Because you just know that he’s out there, talking to everyone, unlike the rest of the high and mighty Council in their palaces, fortresses and moonbases.
UK members of parliament have ‘surgeries’ where they meet their constituents, that’s what we need to see.
I think one could easily get away with retconning The Draco... if Aaron hadn't brought back Azazel in Amazing X-Men for an encore. That makes it a bit more troublesome to say it's all been a lie. But both Mystique and Destiny are master manipulators so a creative writer who's keen on righting this wrong could leverage that to retcon the retcon.
Hey no need for that Cockrum and Byrne were great but Bolton was in a league all his own.
I too am happy Kurt didn't let it get to him I guess but a part of me would have liked to have seen him insult her back. Maybe take a shot at her obsessive nature with certain people. *whistles* Kurt rarely snarks but he has it in him.
Just here for a second to say that I like Bolton a lot more than Byrne and Cockrum. Actually, I think Cockrum is a superb designer --not a very gifted drawer nor storyteller, though.
Bye!
*kisses Kurt*
All three are very good. Bolton’s best work is painted, I’ve been following him since his days in Warrior, back in the early ‘80s. Cockrum’s work now looks quite dated, but he’s streets ahead of what we got through most of the ‘90s. And, as you said, he was an absolutely first class designer. Byrne’s style also looks a bit dated now, but he was such a colossus in his day and I am a total sucker for Byrne/George Perez/Alan Davis school of detailed and stylish art and the ability to draw just about anything, civilians, backgrounds, technology, monsters, aliens, superheroes, the whole kaboodle.
Alan Davis art from Giant Sized, out in March.
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So, X-Men 7 is out... in which Kurt has All the Questions. But none of the answers.
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He wants to set up a mutant religion, to explore this. Krakoa has even grown him a cathedral, at the moment, only he can enter. This ties in with those tarot cards back in POX 1 and the mention of Cardinal being the last priest of the last religion. And with Kurt’s spiritual bent. So I’m not surprised.
There’s a lot more than this in the issue, it’s the most dense with ideas and concepts since HoX/PoX and there’s loads to debate and think about spoilers:end of spoilers
such as mutants fighting to the death in The Crucible, an idea which Kurt opposed but was defeated on the Quiet Council
He’s also, briefly, in X-Men/Fantastic 4, spoilers:end of spoilers
where he gets to put his head in his hands and comment on the lack of communication. It’s a very Kurt moment. And one punch, but it’s a crowded book, it’s not his story.
Lukas Werneck saves the day.
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