Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Only Swashbuckling Nightcrawler Can Lift My Spirits Now

It continues to annoy me that Marvel (or Jonathan Hickman, whichever) went to the trouble of making a pirate-themed X-Men book, and didn't include Nightcrawler in the cast. He's the most pirate-enthusiastic X-Man there is!
Hmm, maybe Kitty was enforcing a strict dress code for her crew and Kurt wanted to show too much fur. Could make it difficult for anyone to concentrate on what they're supposed to be doing. Looks like Kurt raided King Conan's wardrobe or something.

As far as I know, the book is all about Kitty and her crew running around rescuing mutants who can't make it Krakoa and similar positive acts. Kurt wouldn't even have to be bummed out about doing some of the more historically accurate pirate stuff that he was reminded of when he was on that pirate crew in his 1980s mini-series.

Plus, Kurt wouldn't want to lend his friend Kitty a helping hand with the swashbuckling? I mean, who's she got on that crew? The new Pyro? Iceman? Boring. I have no idea what he's doing currently on Krakoa. It didn't seem like he had a lot of pressing business based off that one-shot I bought at the end of March. Might as well enjoy the some sea air and do something useful.

2 comments:

thekelvingreen said...

I've only been following the new X-books from a distance but I believe Nightcrawler is now too depressed to buckle swash because he's been resurrected by Krakoa and that clashes with his religious views.

CalvinPitt said...

But he'd already been resurrected once, when Jason Aaron brought him back 7 years ago. Wait, what am I saying? Marvel's not going to pay any attention to that, let alone Jonathan Hickman. Still, you think Marvel would eventually figure out nobody likes Mopey Nightcrawler. That's what Cyclops and Rogue are for, and Logan when he's questioning whether he's an Animal or a Man.