Chris Claremont toyed with the idea of making the Doctor Strange villain Nightmare into Kurt’s dad. But he preferred his second option for Nightcrawler’s origin. His idea was that Mystique had ...

A longstanding untold X-Men story has now finally made it to the page in X-Men Blue: Origins #1, shedding a monumental new light on the history of one prominent mutant family with ramifications that ...

Few things in the Marvel Universe go hand in hand more than the X-Men and convoluted family histories. That's certainly true for Nightcrawler and his mother Mystique, with Marvel offering several ...

Kurt Wagner’s relationship with Mystique and Destiny has long been a messy, divisive one–but as the current era of X-Men comics is more explicit about their queer family, this week it righted the ...

*WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for X-Men Blue: Origins #1. Continue reading at your own risk! X-Men Blue: Origins #1 comes from the creative team of Si Spurrier, Wilton Santos, Oren ...

One of my few criticisms of the current volume of Uncanny X-Men is a lack of my favorite of Marvel‘s Mutants, Nightcrawler. Oh, Kurt Wagner is still there, but he’s largely been playing a supporting ...

Marvel Comics has finally made good on an idea that’s over 40 years old. In the recent X-Men Blue: Origins one shot, the true origin story of longtime X-Man Nightcrawler was revealed. And it’s what ...