I don't know if they've done as many lately, but I feel like I bought a bunch of variant covers at the start of this series. I usually don't, but c'mon. From 2024,
Uncanny X-Men #3 (LEG #703) "Red Wave, part 3: the Inside Man" Written by Gail Simone, art by David Marquez. Variant cover by Mahmud Asrar.
This was early in Simone's run, and we get to know the new mutant kids a bit: there's also a mention of the prophecy, that one of them could be the last mutant; I'm not sure that's come up recently. The kids all have horribly sad stories, which is why Rogue is gung-ho to not only protect them, but give them a home. She gets Nightcrawler, for a bit of outdoors Danger Room tag with them; and Kurt gets surprised by the 'manga kid,' as Logan calls him: Deathdream. Still, charitable as always, Kurt feels like the kids have good hearts...even the ones literally without them!
Rogue's disappointed Logan doesn't stick around to learn the kids' names--he probably knows, he just acts like he doesn't--but he has to take off, I think for his own new book, as seen on the cover here! But, he's not done, as later here he throws down with new villain, Sarah Gaunt. She's stalking the kids, and we don't know much about her yet, except that she has some kind of history with Charles Xavier.
Uncanny is one of like three Marvel titles I'm reading now, and this run has been pretty good...but has it been everything I want in an X-book? Of course it hasn't met my completely arbitrary and unfair expectations. A recent issue finds the kids living out a What If--?! style scenario, with them as the first class of New Mutants; but I wonder if these kids will have any staying power. Who was the last mutant kid to catch on any...Glob Herman? Yeesh. (That and I don't like Kurt's girlfriend in this series; feels like we've been told how great she is, but we haven't really seen it?)
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He probably does, if he even bothers to put em back in the bags at all. Bit of a 50/50 chance considering I don’t he’d be a stickler for proper comic book bagging etiquette given his circus background and all, but who knows.
So Kurt’s not banging Silver Sable anymore? Huh, honestly Kurt doesn’t get enough credit for being such an underrated ladies man.
Silver Sable was never going to work long term, 'cause she can't leave Symkaria (sp?) and Kurt isn't about to go join the Wild Pack...Although, that would've been a fun plotline, since Sable would probably be surprised if her country was more or less mutant friendly than she maybe thought.
I don't think most recall Bloody Bess, from the Claremont Nightcrawler series--she was a pirate baddie with the usual heart of gold, and maybe might've been a clone of Psylocke? (An internet theory, that I'm not sure has gone anywhere.) It would be fun to do it completely for laughs, though: Kurt's date night goes awry when Silver Sable, Bess, Cerise, and finally Amanda Sefton show up. (Amanda's due for a comeback!) Jubilee and Gambit would eat drama like that with a spoon; while Rogue tries to keep the kids out: "Nah, y'all don't need to see that."
Can’t or won’t? What’s with the limitation? And you’re probably right bc she might’ve been into Kurt more so due to the fact that he was dressed up like Spider-Man rather than bc of Kurt’s animal magnetism 🤷♂️
Cerise REALLY is long overdue for reunion with Kurt but apparently no one outside Davis or Claremont are interested in using her. Shame really.
Wait, is Kurt’s tail really prehensile? I don’t think I’ve seen it do more than swish and maybe stand up when he’s angry. Why doesn’t he use it to grab things more if it is?
Silver Sable's merc work--ooh, rebrand the Wild Pack as "Merc Work"--is apparently her country's main economic driver. It might even be generational, but their only export is high-end semi-legal thugs? I don't know if anyone's tried this, but she would be in direct competition with things like Blackwater. "Sure, you could hire a bunch of beardy American cowboys for this job, or you could get professionals."
And H, you've never seen Kurt use three swords?! Maybe when that fancy Mezco one shows up. Maybe he doesn't grab as much stuff with it because it's not considered polite?
No, though I’m woefully undereducated about most Marvel stuff. I only remember two during one of his pirate things but I feel like putting a sharp weapon so near your crotch is a good way to get castrated or at least lose the end of the tail.
@H: That fact alone should tell what a master swordsman Kurt is
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