#wagnerine

[why-i-love-comics]

Nightcrawlers #3 - "The Sacred Heart" (2023)

written by Si Spurrier art by Lorenzo Tammetta, Phillip Sevy, & Rain Beredo

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The Tournament of X

Announcement!

The following five characters will be receiving new portraits for their future matches! On the left are their old portraits, and on the right are their new portraits.

X-Man | Nathaniel Grey

Askani | Rachel Summers

Wagnerine

M / Penance | Monet St. Croix

Surge | Noriko Ashida

If you have any complaints or criticisms regarding this decision, feel free to make them known.

[comicwaren]

From Nightcrawlers #002, “The Apostate”

Art by Andrea Di Vito and Jim Charalampidis

Written by Si Spurrier

[thebuhonerodazorrow]

Nightcrawlers #3 (2023)

The sacred heart

Marvel

[fuckyeahxclub]

Nightcrawlers #2

[baambastic]

Wasn’t sure initially whether or not to include Rasputin IV and Wagnerine in the Tournament of X on account of the inevitable timeline reset. Thankfully it’s no longer an issue.

[girlscarpia]

The way I went from the figlia/mio padre duet straight to wotan's farewell.......

[pickleslice]

so crucial that sinister give all of his chimera’s silly little names

[ernaehrunghandbuch]

Die Wagnerin: Ayurvedische Küche lieben lernen

Ayurveda, die traditionelle indische Heilkunst, ist vielen bekannt. Wie unkompliziert und tatsächlich alltagstauglich diese Küche ist, zeigt uns “Die Wagnerin”.

[racefortheironthrone]

Hi! Rookie X-Men question, given how every so often characters tend to die (and then come back), have any of the more specifically religious members of the group, like Nightcrawler, had to wrangle the theological implications of that, or having to deal with dying in-Marvel being very different to how they expect?

Theology is a tricky concept in the Marvel Universe more broadly. Start with the baseline weirdness of what it means to believe in a monotheistic deity when the gods of various pantheons walk the earth as heroes and villains, and where many beings of ultimate cosmic significance can be met in the vastness of space:

Reed Richards is actually lying here. He's gone to the actual Heaven (to retrieve the soul of Ben Grimm) and met the "One Above All" in Fantastic Four #511, and it turns out that in the Marvel Universe, God is literally Jack Kirby, drawing everything into existence:

How this fits in with the existence of multiple gods, multiple Heavens and multiple Hells, is left up to the reader to untangle - just another continuity wrangle to No Prize.

The X-Comics haven't always done much better. As you point out, Kurt Wagner is a faithful son of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church - although I'm sometimes annoyed by writers who can only remember this one detail about him and forget the dashing swashbuckler stuff that's actually way more fun - and his belief ought to be tempered that he's actually died, gone to the explicitly Christian Heaven, and been resurrected by bamfs (it was weird). On the other hand, in the infamous "Draco" storyline, Kurt has also found out that angels and demons are tribes of mutants and that he's the son of the demon Azazel. And in the equally infamous "Holy War" storyline, Kurt became a Catholic priest as part of a theologically-unsound plan to make him Pope so that he could be revealed as the Antichrist and convince people that the Rapture had begun - even though Catholics don't believe in the Rapture.

However, things got a lot better with Jonathan Hickman's House of X/Powers of X and the advent of Krakoa, because all of the sudden there were much more interesting questions to ask. Were mutants the new gods, as Magneto had proclaimed? What did the Church's promise of immortal life mean, now that mutants had defeated death and brought about immortality in this life? What would be the new commandments of the mutant Eden?

As a member of the Quiet Council and the X-Men's resident philosopher, Nightcrawler would be the one asking and answering these questions. In my absolute favorite issue of Hickman's run on the X-Men, Kurt is pushed to seek answers to these questions by the new mutant tradition of "Crucible" - by which depowered mutants must face [A] in the arena to win their right to be reborn into glory through enduring a slow and violent death - and his discovery that Krakoa had built for him a cathedral that only a mutant who can teleport could enter.

In Si Spurrier's run, Kurt investigates these questions by interrogating the laws of Krakoa and how they shape the nascent mutant culture being born on the island. The danger is, that in a world in which life extends forever and death has no meaning, that mutants will fall into sadism and apathy. Kurt's new religion, "the Spark," seeks to combat spiritual neurasthenia with a commitment to the relentless pursuit of the new.

But questions remain: why, in both Moira's Ninth Life and the Sins of Sinister timeline, does Kurt Wagner become the originator of a new sub-species of chimeras with his mutant powers and his appearance and a common commitment to the last religion in existence? What happened to the Golden Child miraculously born to his genetic descendent Wagnerine? Did she survive the destruction of the timeline?

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From Sins of Sinister: Dominion #001, “∞ Deadly Sins”

Art by Paco Medina, Lucas Werneck and Bryan Valenza

Written by Kieron Gillen

[thebuhonerodazorrow]

Nightcrawlers #3 (2023)

The sacred heart

Marvel

[fuckyeahxclub]

Nightcrawlers #2

[nfcomics]

NIGHTCRAWLERS no.001 • cover art • Paco Medina [Feb 2023]

Ten years into a twisted future, MR SINISTER unleashes his private army of assassins: THE LEGION OF THE NIGHT. Meet WAGNERINE, commanding this killer crew of brainwashed hybrids, each one a genetic mix of NIGHTCRAWLER and another one of Marvel's most murderous mutants! Mysterious forces seek to break Sinister's control over these fatal fanatics - to turn them AGAINST HIM. But who are they? And what are their true motives…?