Deus Again
December 11th, 2005
Filed under: Comics
More deus ex machina, this time from Nightcrawler #10 (story by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, pencils by Darick Robertson):
I don’t know what it is about Nightcrawler. I like the character, I like the artist, and I like the work Aguirre-Sacasa has done on Marvel Knights 4, but Nightcrawler just isn’t working for me (or most anyone else it seems).
- Having a character admit that it’s a deus ex machina does not excuse including one in the storyline.
- There are entirely too many captions. Seriously — this book puts Claremont to shame. As a rule, if you have a parenthetic aside in your caption, then you’re writing way too many.
- Nightcrawler works best when he’s a fun swashbuckler. A few darker stories here and there are OK, but this entire series has been way too dark.
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December 13th, 2005 at 7:58 am
Nightcrawler is my favorite super-hero, and I was disheartened by his solo book. You know, Greg Rucka wrote two excellent Nightcrawler guest appearances (in issues of Wolverine and X-Men Unlimited), and Bill Willingham wrote a fun Nightcrawler story in an issue of X-Men Unlimited. I wonder if the book would have succeeded if one of them wrote it.
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