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Marvel comics of 1991. New Mutants ends, Deadpool begins, and X-Force by Rob Liefeld & Fabian Nicieza is here!

Our guest today is Jeremy Greer. Find more from Jeremy:

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On this episode we cover the following issues (all available via Marvel Unlimited):

Up Next: My Marvelous Year – 1991 Pt. 4

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This week on Creannotators, I talk with comics legend – seriously he’s one of my favorite creators of all time! – Jim Starlin and inker Jaime Jameson about the upcoming Dreadstar Returns, an all-new graphic novel from Ominous Press. We talk about the team’s approach to relaunching the Dreadstar universe, why Starlin continues to escalate cosmic stakes in work on Thanos and now Dreadstar, and whether Marvel Studios has appropriately compensated Starlin for his many Marvel Cosmic creations, including Thanos, Drax, Gamora, & Shang-Chi (among many more!).

On Comic Book Herald’s ‘Creannotators’ I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. Creannotators is an audio annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics!

Dreadstar Returns is:

Creator: Jim Starlin

Inker: Jaime Jameson

Publisher: Ominous Press

The easiest way to collect Starlin’s complete Dreadstar in order is through the Kickstarted Omnibus editions released by Ominous Press in 2020.

Dreadstar Omnibus Vol. 1

Collects: Metamorphosis Odyssey, The Price, Dreadstar Graphic Novel #1, Dreadstar in Epic Illustrated #15, Dreadstar #1 to #8

Dreadstar Omnibus Vol. 2

Collects: Dreadstar #9 to #24

Dreadstar Omnibus Vol. 3

Collects: Dreadstar #25 to #40

If you’re reading via back issues like myself, you’ll want to follow the following order!

Metamorphosis Odyssey

The Price

Dreadstar Graphic Novel #1 (This doubles as Marvel Original Graphic Novel #3)

Dreadstar in Epic Illustrated

This is probably the hardest to track down – at least that has been my experience – as there’s a short story in the pages of Epic Illustrated #15 by Starlin including Dreadstar and Darklock that sets the stage for the ongoing to follow.

Dreadstar #1 to #40

After Starlin’s final issue (at the time), Peter David took over writing Dreadstar from issue #41 to #64, when the series ended in 1991. To my knowledge, these are uncollected, and only available via back issues.

Dreadstar Returns OGN

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Zack & Dave continue their coverage of the Ultimate Marvel line of comics!

Topics discussed include:

* Why is Ultimate Gah Lak Tus such a disappointment?

Comics covered in this episode:

-Ultimate Extinction #1-5

Up Next for Episode Fourteen:

-Ultimate Spider-Man #78-85

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Zack & Dave cover your questions as we read through the Marvel Comics of 1991!

Topics discussed include:

Up Next:

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X-Men: Curse of the Man-Thing is the finale of a three part “Curse of the Man-Thing” miniseries, spanning the worlds of Marvel’s Avengers, Spider-Man, and now X-Men. In “Curse of the Man-Thing” the adopted niece of Hordeculture – remember them? – is magically manipulating the abilities of the Man-Thing so the entire world, and possibly multiverse, always remember that whatever knows fear BURNS AT THE MAN-THING’S Touch!

Today I’ll Answer:

+ What does the Man-Thing have to do with Krakoa and the X-Men?

+ Who is on Magik’s new X-Men team, the Dark Riders?

+ What happens to Hordeculture here that might have major ramifications for the Hickman era of X-Men?

Writer: Steve Orlando

Artist: Andrea Broccardo

Colorors: Guru-eFX

Throughout the Avengers and Spider-Man first two issues, with a full story broken into 9 chapters, we see plant-like growths effectively disrupting and exploding across the world, with Man-Thing’s fear-burning powers amplified on a worldwide scale. Overall, I enjoyed the story more than expected, not because I don’t like Orlando’s work (I do, a lot!) but because I’m not usually that into much post-Steve Gerber 70’s Man-Thing.

Ted Sallis, the original Man-Thing, has his abilities manipulated here by Harrower, again we’ll talk about her connections to Hordeculture here shortly, and throughout the story is visited by a wide array of Marvel heroes inside his “Man-Thing-Scape” (there is no better way to say that, you’ll just have to trust me) such as Captain America, Spider-Man, and Magik.

Meanwhile on Krakoa, “The human world burns while Krakoa suffers nothing more than a new hedge piece.” Krakoa is uniquely positioned to manage these plant-based uprisings, so Krakoa is perfectly safe. Magneto, and the Winter Council, are all satisfied to let the world burn, but Storm does the X-Men heroism thing, before we officially have our “heroic duty” X-Men officially protecting the world after the Hellfire Gala announcement, and the new ongoing of a relaunched X-Men from Gerry Duggan and Pepe Larraz.

Now as Krakoa is deciding to, once again after King in Black, show up to save the day for humanity, Ted Sallis wrestles with the truth of his turn into the Man-Thing. He tells Captain America the Man-Thing experiments that turned him into Not-Swamp-Thing were meant to replicate the Super-Soldier formula, and reveals as the story progresses that Sallis’ science couldn’t actually crack the formula. Instead he turned to dark magics, bringing our good creepy pal, Belasco, then ruler of Limbo, later to be replaced by Illyana Rasputin into the picture.

So Man-Thing made a deal with the devil – of sorts – which, yes, gives the Marvel Universe Man-Thing, but more dramatically unleashed the interdimensional magic that opened a portal in space-time and created the Nexus of All Realities. Ok, this is new, and kind of a big deal!

What’s the Nexus of All Realities? Ok, from the Wiki “a cross-dimensional gateway which provides a pathway to any and all possible realities.” Man-Thing’s guardianship, and connection to the Nexus was generally a mystery up to this point.

The Original Dark Riders debuted in X-Factor #65 to #69, aka the Jim Lee, Whilce Portacio, and Chris Claremont issues where Apocalypse kidnaps baby Nathan Summers and Jean and Scott are forced to give him up to the future to save him from the techno-organic virus. I had read this story for My Marvelous Year podcast like days before writing this video, and I still didn’t remember any of their names, so the Dark Riders weren’t exactly primo Apocalypse horsemen material.

Looking a bit more closely at our antagonist, Harrower has been raised and trained by Hordeculture, the ecoterrorists introduced in Hickman’s X-Men #3, and shown again in Empyre: X-Men, making this Hordeculture’s 3rd appearance. Harrower refers to her “Aunt Augusta,” but is clearly at odds with the groups mandate to protect the biome above all else, wishing they would go further in their stated goals, effectively wiping humanity from the Earth. Think Poison Ivy at her angriest, but more magicky.

Big picture, I really refer Orlando’s take on Hordeculture, giving the elderly ladies more gravity and clearer purpose, and not trying to capture the failed comedy of Hickman in the team’s debut.

Hordeculture’s status as antiheroic foils for the X-men continues too, as they absolutely attempt to stop Harrower. Nonetheless they’re unsuccessful, which actually results in some of the team being lost in the multiverse through the Nexus of All Realities.

Which brings me to the most interesting development here for Hordeculture which is that they are now FLIPPING MULTIVERSAL

Now listen, this could be the sort of thing that no one ever mentions again, but Hordeculture gaining access to the multiverse, and technology or ideas there that might help Hordeculture against the Krakoan X-Men, is very interesting! Think of all the plants across the multiverse!

I maintain that a MULTIVERSE of mutants remains one of the largest untapped conversations, issues, and storylines to enter into the Hickman and Krakoa era of X-Men. Even a mild alliance with Man-Thing as guardian of the Nexus of Realities opens up another possible gateway for mutants, as they also explore the reality warping properties of mysterium through SWORD and the mutant space program.

Before we move on, I’ll also note here that Orlando’s presence in the Krakoasphere feels intentional, and definitely like the Marvel offices are gearing up to include him more in future works, which I for one look forward to!

Big picture, there’s an interesting and frankly surprising trend incorporating Man-Thing into the fringes of the Krakoan era of X-Men. This began with Weapon Plus: World War IV, a one-shot written by Ben Percy – aka writer of X-Force and Wolverine – with art by Georges Jeanty early in 2020. For the unfamiliar, Weapon Plus is the program trying to crack the super-soldier formula, or more aptly, turning humans into weapons, and are responsible for the likes of Captain America, Wolverine, Fantomex, Ultimaton, and now, Jackson Strode, aka Man-Slaughter, aka a gloriously on point comic book play on Man-Thing.

It’s not really relevant, but also worth noting that the backup story in this issue by Ryan Cady and David Baldeon stars Brute Force, aka Paul Scheer’s dream Marvel movie, taking down an Orchis supply ship.

Ok, so what do we make of the Man-Thing of it all? Well again, Magik and the Dark Riders aide potentially forms an alliance that could lead to easier access to the Nexus of All Realities.

Additionally, given Krakoa’s organic nature, it doesn’t seem impossible that mutantkind could have a particularly green superteam on their side in the future

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Marvel comics of 1991. Venom returns, Thunderstrike enters town, & Simonson writes Dave’s favorite Doctor Doom vs Reed Richards throwdown!

On this episode we cover the following issues (all available via Marvel Unlimited):

Up Next: My Marvelous Year – 1991 Pt. 3

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From the unforgettable Dave Cockrum design to the swashbuckling heart of the X-Men in the pages of Chris Claremont and company’s comics, Nightcrawler has long been my favorite mutant. I remain elated by the opening sequence of Nightcrawler in X2: X-Men United, and forever lament the character’s general absence in the 90s animated series. As the character develops in comics, Kurt Wagner’s Christianity becomes a more integral part of his story, not quite as integral as say Daredevil’s Catholicism, or even Kamala Khan’s Islamic faith, but certainly notable among the X-Men.

Today I’ll Answer:

In the present, Nightcrawler’s role as the religious thinker among Krakoa’s Quiet Council of mutant leaders leads into the new series, Way of X, in which Kurt’s quest for a mutant religion and finding meaning in this new era of mutantkind takes the forefront. I find it interesting to contemplate how Kurt’s Christianity has progressed through the decades, where it’s lead to, and what it means now for the Hickman era of X-Men comics.

The first time we really see Nightcrawler’s religion comes during the original Brood Saga, by Chris Claremont and Paul Smith, particularly in Uncanny X-Men #164. Wolverine observes Nightcrawler praying – in Latin no less – and is surprised. It’s a really beautiful moment of developing friendship, as Logan and Kurt briefly examine their diametrically opposed views on finding comfort in religion, with Kurt lamenting how alone Wolverine must feel, and Wolvy saying “I ain’t alone, bub, I got you.”

Crawler’s religion resurfaces significantly during the Uncanny X-Men tie-ins with Secret Wars II (an atrocious Marvel event that disgraces the Secret Wars name, but Claremont is one of the original tie-in masters). Secret Wars II focuses on the nigh all powerful Beyonder coming to Earth, and for the X-Men this leads to events like a showdown with Rachel Summers, Phoenix, and the Beyonder unmaking the New Mutant kids basically on a whim. Following a confrontation with the Beyonder, Nightcrawler, then leader of the X-men, literally flees to church to talk to his priest: “I need to talk Michael, or I shall go mad. I fear have beheld the face of God – only to discover that he is a monster.”

It’s an interesting conversation because in the Marvel Universe beholding literal gods is very much a possibility! Kurt mentions as much, but notes that in comparison to the Beyonder they are as nothing. The Beyonder’s god-like powers, the absolute omnipotence of them, really makes Kurt question his faith, and in the absence of that faith, he can’t help but sink into utter despair. I find this whole thread fascinating because growing up with religion, there are a lot of parallels and metaphors that make Nightcrawler’s relationship to God relatable. Drawing strength from prayer in moments of strife, resolving oneself to faith in a higher unknowable power for security… I get that. But when you start to work that relatable situation up against the flippin’ Beyonder, the parallels wash right out the door. In my day to day, the closest I’ve come to seeing the face of God is standing next to Patrick Ewing at an airport urinal. Not quite the same.

This definitely highlights one of the challenges with traditional religions in our world as carried through to the Marvel Universe: the sheer amount of cosmic and supernatural miracles heroes encounter over decades of storytelling. It makes me think of Daredevil in War of the Realms quite literally transformed into a God, and then returning heavily to his Catholic guilt and roots in the pages of the Chip Zdarsky written Daredevil shortly thereafter. Or of Reed Richards somewhat famously espousing a version of atheism or agnosticism to his children in the Matt Fraction written Fantastic Four, in a world where the Fantastic Four literally traveled to Heaven to bring Ben Grimm back to life in the Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo run.

Appropriately, The Beyonder *really* shakes up Nightcrawler. “Thanks to the Beyonder all the things that had meaning for me – that gave my existence purpose – are todt! dead! destroyed! I don’t know who I am anymore Amanda, or even why I am!” This is a recurring theme for me with Nightcrawler, and one of the things I admire most about his character, in that Nightcrawler is a Christian who questions. He’s a character with a tremendously empathetic heart, and a deep curiosity to explore and question the dogma and unwavering rigidity that can accompany the worst examples of religious manifestation. Nightcrawler *doubts*, and given everything he’s experienced, he should! Part of faith though – real faith as I understand it – is interrogating doubt, and coming out the other side with newfound perspective. This is often one of Nightcrawler’s greatest strengths.

Not too long after this point in comics, Nightcrawler is knocked into a long coma during the events of the Mutant Massacre, and when he recovers he joins up with Kitty Pryde, Rachel Summers, Brian Braddock and Meggan in Excalibur. There’s less focus on Kurt’s faith during this time period, as the team travels the Marvel Multiverse, in a cross-time caper that lasts long enough to at least make *me* question if there is a God.

I actually think one of the most influential moments in cementing Crawler as deeply Christian occurs in the X-Men 90’s Animated Series, in the opener to Season Four, appropriately titled “Nightcrawler.” Kurt isn’t a part of the 90s animated lineup – much to my eternal chagrin – so this episode gives us his origin. Instead of rescue by Charles Xavier and joining the All-New All-Different X-Men, Nightcrawler is rescued by a monastery after he’s abandoned by his mother (here canonically cemented as Mystique!), and raised to be a monk. Pretty religious! The episode really emphasizes faith and Christianity at the center of Nightcrawler’s world – indeed as viewers, that’s about ALL we see – and somewhat comically remixes the Kurt and Logan scene from the Brood Saga to the point that the episode ends with Wolverine praying in a Cathedral.

This rendition definitely influences the most notable mainstream media debut of Nightcrawler, in X2: X-Men United. I’ll always love X2, and the opening flash of the hypnotized Nightcrawler assassin absolutely astonished me.

This commitment to Christian Kurt extends as X-Men comics enter the 2000s, where writer Chris Claremont returned to the franchise to write X-Men #100, and opened with a revelation: Kurt has become a priest! Now, if you’re thinking when in the wide world of Young Popes did Nightcrawler become a priest, don’t worry, it’s a frequently overlooked period that didn’t last too long! I’ll admit this one vexed me for a long time, too, because Claremont opens with Crawler’s priesthood as if that had been alluded to in previous comics, but as far as I’m aware it’s a sudden Claremont-verse development that begins here, as part of a Hickman-esque 6 months later mysterious time gap!

Nightcrawler’s serenity as a priest is quickly disturbed by Claremont’s introduction of the Neo (aka X-Men theorists favorite go-to reference – it’s not happening neo-heads!), as he and Doctor Cecilia Reyes are repeatedly pushed into violent confrontation with the evolutionary up-and-comers. We see Crawler praying, espousing the gospel, and primarily requesting and attempting to grant absolution for the violence that comes as part of being a hunted mutant.

Priest-Crawler has limited appearances, and for my money, some of the most interesting come in the all but forgotten 4 issue 2001 Magik miniseries by Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, and Liam Sharpe. The mini comes after Amanda Sefton – Kurt’s former romantic interest – takes over as the new Magik, ruler of Limbo, and brings in the new Priest into a eldritch adventure through all the splinter realms of demons and chaos, as Crawler and Amanda confront Limbo, Nightmare, Mephisto, Dormammu, and a whole lot more. The mini doesn’t dig too deeply into the question, but it’s yet another example of Nightcrawler literally bearing witness to the hordes of hell in all sorts of variety.

Now, as for why we don’t hear more about Nightcrawler’s time as a priest, that’s primarily because the most notable examples of story occur during the Chuck Austen run on Uncanny X-Men, and if you’re familiar with “The Draco” (when Austen tells us Nightcrawler’s father is literally the demon Azrael), you know this run is notoriously considered some of the worst Nightcrawler storytelling of all time.

I’m not willing to label myself an Austen apologist, but as I’ve discussed, since I didn’t experience this run in the moment, I definitely don’t have the same widely accepted resentment a lot of fans carry. And honestly, I’m regularly impressed, or at least surprised given the reputation, by Austen’s *attempts* to have real conversations and tackle real subject matters in the pages of X-Men. In “Holy War,” Austen opens with captions telling us more people have died in the name of religion than cancer (and we try to cure cancer), and is quite clearly wrestling with evil done in the name of religion throughout the story. Heavy topics, and not necessarily handled with kid gloves.

Of course, then we come to the *plot* and the wheels fall off. Or, more accurately, the communion wafers explode. Stay with me here because we are about to go *on a ride*. In “Holy War,” aka Uncanny X-Men #423 and #424, the Church of Humanity – a violently anti-mutant religious sect – literally crucifies a number of mutants on the front lawn of the X-Mansion, including Jubilee and long-time Gen-X’er Skin, who dies here. The grotesque murders are Austen’s way of showcasing how scripture can be manipulated and interpreted to cause widespread pain, malice and hate. Shortly after Cyclops dresses him down and shouts “Are you brain dead!” Kurt mentions his priesthood, and the X-Men all wonder why they weren’t invited to the ceremony. Kurt thinks *they were*, and it’s revealed that Kurt’s journey to becoming a Priest was all an extremely elaborate hoax by the Church of Humanity, part of a plot to make Nightcrawler the Pope. I’ll pause here to provide space for you to stop laughing.

Why did the Church of Humanity want Pope-Crawler, aside from the fact that those comics would have been INCREDIBLE? Well, they planned to remove his image inducer during a Pope-speech, revealing that instead of looking exactly like Jude Law in a speedo, Kurt was devilishly blue, and this would convince Catholics the world over that the mutant anti-Christ had infiltrated the church, driving mutant hatred crusades everywhere. Oh, and exploding communion wafers would explode priests all around the world to make it look like the rapture happened, and enter revelations. It’s a WILD PLAN.

So yes, Priest-Crawler is actually retconned to have never happened (which is kind of hilariously ok with Kurt because he couldn’t give up temptations of the flesh anyway), and again, shortly thereafter it’s also revealed Kurt’s the son of a demon and Mystique. Plot insanity aside, I do find a lot of value in considering yet another example where Kurt placing his faith fully in God – literally to the point of an intended priesthood – is met with horror. To say Nightcrawler’s faith has been challenged is an understatement: Nightcrawler’s faith is especially interesting when you see the direct ways Christianity is twisted in X-Men alone.

Religion is and will always be a sensitive topic for many readers, and I continue to find Nightcrawler’s positive, curious, and evolving relationship a benefit to the X-Men universe because it opens it up to the kinds of epistemological and cosmological questions we’re seeing tackled in Way of X. In the My Marvelous Year reading club, I’ve definitely seen religious readers bristle at the portrayal of Christianity in the Claremont-verse, most notably in God Loves, Man Kills, where evangelical preacher William Stryker manipulates his religious influence into an anti-mutant crusade. Despite his demonic appearance, despite everything he’s seen, despite so many examples of religion gone bad, despite literal temptation from the devil himself, Nightcrawler consistently provides hope in the face of all this.

One of the wildest wrinkles in all of Nightcrawler’s religious exploration is that following his death in the “Second Coming” crossover, Nightcrawler literally goes to heaven, which is where we find him in the quietly underrated Amazing X-Men story “The Quest for Nightcrawler.” Which to me sure feels like one of those “take the doubt out of the equation” kind of developments. Nonetheless, because Nightcrawler ultimately sacrifices his place in heaven to keep Azrael trapped, and Kurt returns to Earth (more or less fulfilling his own mutant death and resurrection well before Krakoa), the sequence puts him on a path to what we see in the Hickman era of X-Men. If the Catholic journey was always faith rewarded with a heavenly afterlife, what happens when that afterlife is actually just a part of the journey?

Given this development, and the “Death of Death” in the Krakoa era of X-Men, a new mutant religion makes a lot of sense. On one hand, I think it’s always made some sense, given human religions weren’t ever built for mutantkind, and that we see so many branches of Christianity vilify mutants. I don’t think all mutants should just instantly reject their faith, particularly as it pertains to their human culture and heritage, but it’s hard to look at a literal translation of known religions and see them fitting into the Marvel-verse, without even a mention or hint about how the teachings apply to mutants.

One thing I quite like about Nightcrawler’s approach to mutant religion in Way of X #1 is he looks at all these massive questions about mutant souls and the essence of being and says “Obvious questions. Stupid questions. Because they would not change how we truly live.”

Mutant religion as a path to purpose, as a foundational set of principle for living… this makes a lot of sense. And I think what we can expect Kurt to determine is that his purpose – remember, very much in question from our doubting Nightcrawler – is to provide others with purpose of their own.

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This week on Creannotators, I talk with creator Juni Ba about his upcoming graphic novel Djeliya from TKO Studios! We talk about the West African folklore’s influence, inspiration from Samurai Jack to Disney’s Atlantis to Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, and themes of hidden or omitted national histories, among much more.

On Comic Book Herald’s ‘Creannotators’ I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. Creannotators is an audio annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics!

Djeliya is:

Creator: Juni Ba

Publisher: TKO Studios

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Marvel comics of 1991. The X-Men in “X-Tinction Agenda” from Claremont, Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, Louis Simonson, and more!

On this episode we cover the following issues (all available via Marvel Unlimited):

Up Next: My Marvelous Year – 1991 Pt. 2

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This week on Creannotators, I talk with Ahoy! Comics editor-in-chief Tom Peyer about his books Penultiman and The Wrong Earth: Night and Day, and we talk about what it’s like to be an editor-in-chief of a comics publisher in 2021!

On Comic Book Herald’s ‘Creannotators’ I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite creators in comics about specific runs, graphic novels or series, looking for their insights on the inspirations behind the work and ideas or hidden material readers may have missed. Creannotators is an audio annotative guide to enjoying the intricacies and thinking in the art. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the comics!

Penultiman is:

Author: Tom Peyer

Artist: Alan Robinson

Publisher: Ahoy! Comics

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