Azazel

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 wrongs of the past to bring Kurt and his upbringing into a bold new light.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedA lot’s happening with the X-Men right now, and mutantkind in general, as Marvel Comics heralds the final months of the “Krakoan Age”—the ascendant period of comics ushered in back in 2019 under the…

Let’s face it, the X-Men universe is one giant superpowered soap opera, with countless characters related to each other in various confusing and contradictory ways. Mystique is Charles Xavier’s adoptive sibling in the movies, but in the comics it’s Juggernaut. The list goes on. The complicated connection between Azazel and Nightcrawler is another such case that requires an exceptional understanding in X-Men-ology to fully comprehend. Once again, the story was slightly different in the 20th Century Fox films than in the…

Image: Leonard Kirk/Marvel ComicsThe creators: Ed Brisson (Predator) & Scott Godlewski (Batman vs. Robin)The pitch: Alpha Flight has previously worked with the X-Men in the past, but more recently, they’ve been operating as an extension of the spacefaring group SWORD in books such as Captain Marvel. The new mini returns them to their Canadian roots, and have them sponsored by the government as they “de-escalate the mutant conflict by any means necessary.” Heading up that team is Puck, Snowbird, Guardian, and Shaman,…