#graydon creed

[cassowarygirl]

#marvel #textpost meme #x-men #remy lebeau #gambit #jean grey #illyana rasputin #magik #raven darkholme #mystique #kurt wagner #nightcrawler #graydon creed

[princess-pathetic-112898]

Revisiting X-Men and being reminded that Mystique is the only mother ever.

#fan post #dankest memes #x men #x men comics #marvel #marvel comics #mystique #raven darkholme #rogue xmen #anna marie #anna marie darkholme #nightcrawler #kurt wagner #graydon creed

[van-oskuro]

Marvel really needs to explore this concept more

#marvel #x men 97 #xmen #nightcrawler #graydon creed

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Oh my god... Hank gets called into the debate and this is just... amazing... as is Charles's reaction.

#Marvel #Uncanny X Men #Hank McCoy ~ Beast #Charles Xavier ~ Professor X #Robert Kelly #Graydon Creed

[theatrical-penguin]

And they follow-up the exploration of the Lenscherr/Maximoff family with the revelation of Mystique’s status as worst mother in the story. At least Kurt and Rogue each get one good sibling out of it.

Creed and Sabretooth deserve each other.

#xmen rewatch #x men the animated series #rogue #nightcrawler #kurt wagner #mystique #graydon creed #sabretooth #more messed up marvel family trees

[why-i-love-comics]

Wolverine #47 - "Bad Seed" (2024)

written by Victor LaValle & Benjamin Percy art by Geoff Shaw & Alex Sinclair

#graydon creed #bad seed #marvel #wednesday spoilers #spoilers #comic spoilers

[monsieuroverlord]

We got some letterless preview pages for Wolverine #50

Main story written by Ben Percy and Victor LaValle, art by Geoff Shaw and Cory Smith

Back-up Story written by Larry Hama and art by Daniel Picciotto

Legacy Exploration send-off back-up story by Ben Percy, art by Javi Fernandez.

source here

Based on the pages, Laura is either successfully rescued by X-Force/somehow she makes it out unscathed and joins up with them. Then then face some sentinel-mecha-hybrid things made by Graydon.

Logan somehow defeats Sabretooth and it'll conclude with him also facing Graydon.

Either there's a flashback or Logan goes all macho and drops the armor to fight Sabretooth one last time, mano a mano (I'm betting on the latter at this point)

I will say, the Hama/Picciotto story looks so promising to me. It's probably going to be a great bit of nostalgia for classic fans of Wolverine, and I'm looking forward to it!

Though, when they said "back-up tales," I was kind of expecting more than 2 writers? Like, it's just Larry Hama (which I mean, amazing, great choice) and also Ben Percy. Who is also writing the main story.

#wolverine #james logan howlett #logan howlett #laura kinney #victor creed #sabretooth war #graydon creed #jubilee #jubilation lee

[comicwaren]

From Wolverine Vol. 7 #047, “Bad Seed”

Art by Geoff Shaw and Alex Sinclair

Written by Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy

#wolverine #laura kinney #sabretooth #victor creed #logan #third eye #nekra sinclair #melter #chris colchiss #oya #idie okonkwo #phoebe cuckoo #kid omega #quentin quire #bad seed #graydon creed #marvel #comics #marvel comics

[doyouknowmarvelcomiccharacter]

#marvel #marvel comics #marvel 616 #graydon creed #tribune #polls #finished: i've never heard of them

[souurcitrus]

Sabretooth with his one daughter vs with his sons

#Sabretooth #victor creed #graydon creed #clarice ferguson #kyle gibney #wild child #blink #X-Men #marvel

[puppyoftindalos]

Can we see Graydon in your style?

Here's Graydon in a white suit <3 handsome boi

#graydon creed #art #my art #my traaaaash

[positivelybeastly]

Uncanny X-Men #299

I honestly don't have a ton of commentary to add here, other than that I love Hank. Even at the very height of respectability, he is such a goofball.

Graydon Creed is so mad. He's SO mad! He's shaking his little baby fists!

Also, we missed out on a blue moon?! God damn it!

#memories. #hank mccoy #henry mccoy #graydon creed #charles xavier #robert kelly #nazi mention tw #holocaust reference tw #shoah reference tw

[magnetoeisenhardt]

The biggest plothole in all of comics is reconciling the existence of Mystique's (not Kurt or Rogue) children with the existence of abortion.

#raven darkholme #mystique #raze darkholme #graydon creed #charles xavier jr

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Kelly, Xavier, and Creed are having a debate about mutants and I will probably get flack for this but GOD this is terrifying how much it kinda matches up with today's political landscape... Xavier in the more left camp with "it would be nice if we all could just maybe work tether?" Then there is Kelly coming off like a pre-2001 or at least pre-2016 Republican... and then there is Creed.. the "we should round up all the deplorables and put them in a camp, or better yet, exterminate them" coming in with the tea-party style post-2020 wacko Repub...

#Marvel #Uncanny X Men #Charles Xavier ~ Professor X #Robert Kelly #Graydon Creed

[samasmith23]

Mystique and the Theories of Relativity

A little over half a year ago, I marathoned the entirety of both the 90s X-Men crossover event, Age of Apocalypse, as well as its direct prequel Legionquest in giant-sized hardcover format. One issue from the Legionquest omnibus in particular which greatly stood out to me was Theories of Relativity from X-Men Unlimited (1993) #4 by Scott Lobdell & Richard Bennett, due to how it heavily fleshes out one my personal favorite supervillain in comics, Raven Darkhölme, aka Mystique!

Although the 4-part Wolverine: Get Mystique arc by Jason Aaron & Ron Garney’s still stands as my personal favorite Mystique storyline, Theories of Relativity is easily a very close contender! If you want to hear more about my praise for Get Mystique, here's a link to the essay "The dualistic rivalry of Wolverine & Mystique" which I posted here a few weeks ago:

Theories of Relativity is quite notable in that it not only reveals for the first time in-continuity that the X-Men member Nightcrawler (aka, Kurt Wagner) is indeed the biological son of Mystique, but it also showcases the long-awaited family reunion between Mystique and Kurt along with the latter's adopted sister/fellow X-Man Rogue (aka, Anna Marie), and half-brother/anti-mutant bigot Graydon Creed. The issue's plot centers around Nightcrawler & Rogue investigating the assassination of a US general who sold weapons to the anti-mutant hate-group "the Friends of Humanity" and its leader Graydon Creed. They soon discover that Mystique killed the general in order to send a message that she's out for Graydon Creed’s blood after he hired his father Sabretooth (aka, Victor Creed) to assassinate Raven in a previous miniseries. Nightcrawler & Rogue are then cryptically sent to the latter's old Mississippi hometown where she was adopted by Mystique. However, the two are then intercepted by Creed who reveals that he is not only Nightcrawler's step-brother, but that they are both Mystique's biological sons. She had abandoned Creed when she discovered that he was not born as a mutant, and she threw an infant Nightcrawler off a waterfall whilst fleeing from an angry mob that perceived them both to be demons (Nightcrawler's was born with his blue-fur, while Mystique accidentally reverted back to her true appearance due to the pain of childbirth).

While X-Men Unlimited #4 is not a perfect issue by any means since some aspects like Mystique's foresight about Nightcrawler & Rogue specifically showing up to prevent her from killing Creed felt rather contrived, overall this was an emotionally powerful narrative which shines a spotlight on one of my favorite characters in not just the X-Men franchise, but in comic books as a whole!

Theories of Relativity effectively illustrates what makes Mystique such a complex and multilayered villain! True to her nature as a shapeshifter, Mystique is a woman of contradictions. On the one hand she's perfectly willing to sacrifice the lives of other people if it either means preserving her own life, or if said-person fails to fulfill her own agendas. But on the other hand Raven is portrayed as being capable of showing genuine love and affection towards individuals that she see parts of herself reflected in.

This dichotomy is most effectively demonstrated through the contrasting relationships between her two biological sons and her adoptive daughter. While Mystique expresses zero regrets regarding her cold mistreatment and abandonment of Graydon Creed & Nightcrawler, she conversely shows legitimate love towards an abandoned and orphaned Rogue, with Raven stating that she could relate to Rogue’s inability to physically touch others due to her own history of utilizing her shape-shifting powers to prevent others from touching her. Raven even goes as far as to claim states that both Rogue and her then-late wife Destiny (aka, Irene Adler) were the only people she ever felt genuine feelings for.

These conflicting aspects of Mystique’s personality are elements of the character which have always made her such a nuanced and compelling villain to me. Elements which have carried over into the modern era, such as with Wolverine: Get Mystique emphasizing Raven's duplicity and willingness to unashamedly sacrifice others in order to fulfill her own interests, while it’s direct prequel X-Men: Messiah Complex emphasized said-villainous traits as simultaneously being derived from Mystique's selective love for individuals like Rogue & Destiny.

In a broad sense, one could interpret Mystique’s hardened exterior and boastful pride of seemingly only caring about for herself as yet just another contradictory facade. A metaphorical form of shape-shifting that Raven's developed over the past century she's been alive for as a self-preservation mechanism which allows her to prevent others from hurting her, consequently hiding elements of her true self from the rest of the world in the process.

This is an interpretation which Theories of Relativity supports through its climax, wherein Mystique surprisingly sacrifices herself so that Rogue can save Nightcrawler from death despite referring to her son as "unwanted" earlier in the issue. Yet another contradiction in Mystique's facade, one which heavily reminded me of the plot twist from the Wolverine Goes To Hell storyline wherein Raven betrayed the Red Right Hand after helping them banish Logan's soul to Hell upon discovering the organization's plans to manipulate Wolverine into unknowingly slaughtering his own children. And Raven did this simply out of respect Logan's friendship for her then-deceased son Nightcrawler, putting aside her own selfish hatred for the sake of someone she genuinely loved.

Overall, X-Men Unlimited #4 is a prime testament to what makes Mystique one of my all-time favorite comic book villains. Additionally, there's a lot of fascinating queer themes which the reader can derive from this issue. These can include themes found-family through Rogue & Mystique's relationship, as well as Graydon Creed's status as a normal human who hates his two mutant parents being reflective of real-life instances of familial rejection occurring between cis-het adults and their queer parents.

The latter example is a theme which transgender YouTuber Vera Wylde from Council of Geeks mentioned in her brilliant "Mystique - Queer Icon!" video:

Plus, the issue also contains some truly hilarious scenes like Mystique shape-shifting into Abraham Lincoln whilst calling out the U.S. general's dishonesty before assassinating him!

And as a fun bit of trivia, I love how the dust-jacket of the Legionquest Omnibus which reprints this issue also refers to Destiny being as Mystique's "lover," even though this story came out in the 90s before it was confirmed that the two were a lesbian couple!

But yeah, overall, Lobdell & Bennett's work on X-Men Unlimited #4 definitely ranks highly among the quintessential Mystique stories IMO!

#mystique #raven darkholme #x-men unlimited #theories of relativity #get mystique #wolverine goes to hell #messiah complex #nightcrawler #kurt wagner #rogue #anna marie #graydon creed #destiny #irene adler #lgbtq #scott lobdell #richard bennett #jason aaron #ron garney #mini essay #marvel comics #90s comics #vera wylde #council of geeks #Youtube

[why-i-love-comics]

Sabretooth & The Exiles #5 - "Station Five" (2023)

written by Victor LaValle art by Leonard Kirk & Rain Beredo

#sabretooth #graydon creed #victor creed #marvel #wednesday spoilers #spoilers #comic spoilers