I know Bachalo isn't everyone's cup of tea, but that Gambit image was what always popped in my head when I thought about him for the longest time.
I know Bachalo isn't everyone's cup of tea, but that Gambit image was what always popped in my head when I thought about him for the longest time.
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It seems Tini mentions where the cards from more as a to confirm what we suspect and assume. It’s not a twist or something that seems to lead somewhere. More just info that matters if you are into cataloguing magic.
The reveal of what the card does is just wasted. The biggest scene. The one you build up to is not there. It’s not subversion, it’s lazy or sloppy.
Why mention that it’s the arcana? Remy can just have a line like: “the next card is wild”.
Then let him charge it to activate it mutant magic style. A slight charge.
Perhaps a scene where the card transfers all valuables to him. Everyone in the room is affected. Or perhaps it transmutes one or all of his opponents to gold. Just something unexpected that shocks them all.
That way you still get the humor and the focus on what the card does. Just in a way that makes some sense.
You are giving Tini too much credit. Was there a reason for Rictor and Apoc pairing? Blue guy left a book with his ancient family.
Excalibur is a book about Betsy and after 23 issues we don't even know what is her powers as CapBrit.
I doubt that we will have anything for Gambit in last 3 issues.
> EXCALIBUR #26
They are probably just referring to the storyline but I do find it interesting they used the phrase “the fantasy ends here”TINI HOWARD (W) • MARCUS TO (A)
Cover by MAHMUD ASRAR
Variant Cover by BETSY COLA
OTHERWORLD FALLS! Merlyn and King Arthur have taken the Starlight Citadel. Saturnyne still lives – but not for long. Betsy Braddock must decide once and for all where her loyalties lie. It's all been building to this – the fantasy ends here and reality rushes in. There is no haven for the witchbreed. Can they hold on to their champion, here at the twilight of an age?
Idk. It sounds like a finale to me, especially because other books are ending the same month.
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That ending doesn't feel properly built up. There has been too much sideplots and other distractions for that to be the endgame. Merlyn himself and Arthur wasn't introduced until after 20+ issues.
I know people have mentioned it before but if Excalibur ends at 26 issues it will be hard for future readers to define what that book was about. It will be one of those "well they started out with plot A and B but then they got distracted and never really resolved them".
It is dead, finally.
Lets hope that 2022 will be a good year.
The cover for 26 has Betsy stabbing the image of Gambit in the head. I think maybe the artist doesn’t like him.
Goodbye Fantasy, goodbye Magic!Emma Frost, goodbye firehose of nonsense plot threads that do not logically proceed to the next issue to create some fake suspense that doesn’t actually culminate in anything rewarding.
Now I guess we wait until next March before seeing Gambit in a book again. I picked a real bad time to come back to this hobby, methinks.
If Claremont really is writing a Gambit book and it set in past with No connection to Krakoa than no reason to wait for March to publish it.
Sabretooth solo probably will be an outcome from Inferno so it can be set on January.
The same can be done with Claremont's Gambit.