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Jason Powell
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| Posted: 26 September 2006 at 12:08pm | IP Logged | 1
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Just remembered something:
I recently read Alan Davis' run on Excalibur (when he
both wrote and drew it), and there's an explanation
there for why Nightcrawler has this second ability
seemingly completely unrelated to the teleportation
power. The exact details escape me, but it was
something to do with the fact that Nightcrawler is
surrounded by some kind of field that warps time
and space, thus allowing him to teleport. A side
effect of this field is that it occasionally creates a
visual warp around him and causes him to seem
invisible.
Davis was more eloquent than I am above. I thought
it was interesting, because it's the only time I've ever
seen anyone try to give a credible explanation for
those two unrelated powers of Nightcrawler's to be
tied to a single mutation. Sort of a "unified field
theory" for Nightcrawler. Literally!
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Greg Kirkpatrick
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| Posted: 26 September 2006 at 12:34pm | IP Logged | 2
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He's not "hard to see". He's invisible. You can
see thru him. (See pages above.)
****
Now a victim of retcon.
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Ian M. Palmer
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| Posted: 26 September 2006 at 3:21pm | IP Logged | 3
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I didn't know they'd invented all those silly extra powers for Superman since Crisis. Dear God.
IMP.
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Matt Timson
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"My take on Kitty was that she did not render anything other than herself
intangible"
*cough, cough* How does that work with her clothes then? *cough*
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Brendan Howard
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| Posted: 26 September 2006 at 3:32pm | IP Logged | 5
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Jason Powell wrote:
You're correct. Classic X-Men 10, which redoes
Uncanny X-Men 102, draws an outline around the
"invisible Nightcrawler" shot, so that he just seems
"nigh-invisible." (Claremont also used this issue to
excise the references to real-life historical events in
Storm's origin.)
In Classic X-Men 11, which redoes Uncanny 103,
Claremont eliminates the page with Nightcrawler's
hand going invisible. That whole scene is just gone.
Chris Claremont: He's the original George Lucas! |
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A-ha! That's why I thought the page looked so bizarre. I first read these stories in Classic X-Men, and haven't sat down to read the Masterworks reprint to see the original pages.
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Gerry Turnbull
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| Posted: 26 September 2006 at 4:07pm | IP Logged | 6
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heres the panel from classic X-Men 10
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Jason Powell
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That's it!!!! Thanks, Gerry!
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Ian Evans
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Gerry, do you just own every comic ever published???
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Landry Walker
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I liked that Nightcrawler power better on "Silver Shadow".
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Andrew Hess
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So Claremont was responsible for undoing this Nightcrawler bit, or was it
editorial?
Did Claremont stop using/refering to that power when he was writing
solo?
I stopped reading X-Men after Byrne left, tho I picked up the Paul Smith
issues. And haven't read them since the 80s, so I don't have those in my
memory as firmly as I do the original Cockrum, and Byrne issues.
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Gerry Turnbull
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Ian,Yes!
well thats what the wife says!
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Ian Evans
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| Posted: 26 September 2006 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | 12
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Cool - your scans are a real plus, please carry on....:-)
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