What’s Covered?
Nightcrawler V3 # 7 - 12, X-23 V1 # 1 - 6, X-Men Unlimited # 7 - 12, Kitty Pryde: Shadow & Flame # 1 - 5, Cable & Deadpool # 15 - 16
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Synopsis
Nightcrawler V3 # 7 - 12: The Winding Way
Writer - Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Pencils - Darick Robertson
The Winding Way
Nightcrawler vol. 3 #7 6/22/2005 Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Darick Robertson
Kurt wanders through his past while he’s in a coma
Just a simple issue where we see everything NC's been through.
Nightcrawler vol. 3 #8 7/27/2005 Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Darick Robertson
Kurt was bitten by Vermin
Goes back to Germany with Logan and Christine Palmer
Seeing a flashback of his youth, with his brother
They find his old circus, but it is on fire.
Nightcrawler vol. 3 #9 8/24/2005 Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Darick Robertson
The circus was burned because some monsters were looking for the soul sword
Kurt was taken prisoner in Florida back when he was younger
Margoli saves Amanda from Nightmare
Something is controlling monsters
Send sleepwalker and Man Thing
Nightcrawler vol. 3 #10 9/28/2005 Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Darick Robertson
Wolverine quote:
“ the only thing I hate more than light beer is hoards of rampaging zombies.”
Amanda pulls the Soul Sword, the one Magik has, from inside Kurt
Logan stabs Christine after being infected by Hive
Nightcrawler vol. 3 #11 11/2/2005 Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Darick Robertson
NC learns it was Hive who killed his brother. NC can now let go of the guilt
Well this is HUGE news. It wasn't actually NC who killed his brother. This is kind of a big deal!
Amanda heals Christine
Where's Dr. Strange?
NC breaks possesed W’s neck
NC uses the Soulsword to free Logan
It’s clear that Hive is working for someone else…a bigger bad
Loose Ends
Nightcrawler vol. 3 #12 11/30/2005 Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Darick Robertson
Mephisto interrupts NC’s birthday party to chat. He was behind everything
He asks NC to stand aside when the war starts
Everything in the mini series was connected
X-23 V1 # 1 - 6
Creatives- Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost Billy Tan
Dr. Sarah Kinney created Laura as a clone of Wolverine, and served as the surrogate mother
She’s not raised as a child, but as a weapon. Trained by her sensei
Laura had the Adamantium bonded without anesthesia
Laura becomes a mercenary for hire, even killing a presidential candidate
Xander, the Dr. who’s father was killed by W, abandons X23 at a site
Sarah takes X23 out to rescue her missing niece
Xander takes over the program, then sends X23 to kill the old leader, Martin, his wife and bastard son
X23 saves the boy, confesses to Sarah
X23 kills everyone, including Sarah
Wow! I was not expecting to get a real origin story here for her. I expected it would take years before we learned whether she had a connection to W or not. And here we are, she is quite literally his clone. Kind of his daughter. This was a good story!
X-Men Unlimited V2 # 7 - 12
Creators - Various
X-Men Unlimited vol. 2 #7 2/2/2005 Arvid Nelson, Mike Raicht Lewis LaRosa, Carlo Pagulayan
NC saves a blind telepathic, mutant
Kitty spends time with a mutant boy who is turning to gas
You know I'm always down for a good Kitty story!
X-Men Unlimited vol. 2 #8 4/6/2005 Paul Di Filippo, James Peaty Cliff Richard, Yvel Guichet
Story 1- Warren opens up a charity allowing anyone to fly
Story 2 - Kitty and Beast go to the opera
These weren't bad, but no one would've died if I skipped it.
X-Men Unlimited vol. 2 #9 6/2/2005 Matt Fraction, Damon Hurd Sam Keith, Mark Brooks
Wolverine reminiscence about his life while at an old friends funeral
Bobby writes a letter to Scott about why he hast to resign, but then he doesn’t. He’s written this letter many times.
This might be my favorite Iceman story yet! But, maybe I just liked it because I thought he was going to quit and we would be freed from him.
X-Men Unlimited vol. 2 #10 8/3/2005 Joe Meno Paco Medina, Gregory Homs
Beast fills in a guidance counselor
This was pretty entertaining!
Flashback of beast traveling to his hometown shortly after transforming into the blue fur, for the first time
Meh.
X-Men Unlimited vol. 2 #11 10/5/2005 Christopher Yost, David Hahn Billy Dallas Patton, David Aja
Story 1 - Rachel goes out to dinner with her uncle Alex to complain about Scott dating Emma shortly after Jean died, but Alex defends him and it pisses her off.
I'm...not a big Rachel fan. A short story of her complaining to another character I dislike...no thank you.
Story 2 - Roberto shows Sam how to ask out a girl
Weird story. Weird art. Really not sure why the editors went with this one. I mean, it's a decent story, but maybe if it was a small arc in a BabySitter's Club book or something.
X-Men Unlimited vol. 2 #12 2005 Stuart Moore, Christopher Long C.P. Smith, John Lucas
Story 1 - Wolvy heals from a vicious wound. Thats it.
Story 2 - W helps Puck at a bar. He has a drinking problem and beat up some locals.
This Puck story was pretty damn good. Fun slice of life story. Puck and Wolverine's friendship doesn't get enough screen time.
Kitty Pryde: Shadow & Flame
Writer - Akira Yoshida
Pencils - Paul Smith
Kitty is lured to Japan with a picture of the green dragon
A Japanese gov org intercepts Kitty
A ninja stole the dragon
Ninja’s - path of the attacks Kitty, but she thinks they want to serve her
Kitty fights the leader of the path in an Ogun mask
They want her to lead them
Kitty fights and seemingly kills the Silver Samurai to steal a sword, to free Lockheed
Kitty prevails. SS wasn’t really dead
I mean, I love me some Kitty. I feel like this whole Kitty is a Japanese ninja and has more and more connections to Ogun story is tired. Please, just let it go. Let's explore more of how smart she is and trying to go to college. Or her relationship with Illyana. Or her mentoring new X-Men. No more of this, please. Thank you.
Cable & Deadpool # 15 - 16
Writer - Fabian Nicieza
Pencils - Patrick Zircher
Cable & Deadpool #15 5/18/2005 Fabian Nicieza Patrick Zircher
A villain named Black Box has DP held and is trying to brainwash him
Sam and Siryn show up at Providence trying to track down Cable
Forge helps them follow DP into another dimension
Cable & Deadpool #16 6/15/2005 Fabian Nicieza Patrick Zircher
World 1 - Apoc
It’s a world, once again, we apocalypse rules
Cable is a horseman, death
World 2 - peace
Cable rules. All of earth is peaceful and boring because Cable and his red diamond enforcers stop anything bad from happening
World 3 - techno organic
Cable rules as the head of a technarc. DP is almost tempted to let it take him, but Teresa literally snaps him out of it.
Nicieza just wanted to have some fun in alternate realities and you know what, I had fun on this ride.
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