My favorite mutant? Well, he appears in Captain America Annual #4, pulled straight from the way-out, wacky, and weird mind of Jack "The King" Kirby. And no, my fave mutant is not Magneto...
All panels from Captain America Annual #4 (1977), written and pencilled by Jack Kirby, inked by John Tartaglione and John Verpoorten, coloring by George Roussos, lettering by Jim Novak
...It's this guy:
The heck with another Wolverine or X-Teens spin-off...it's high time to give Tiny Mutant Who Lives In a Wristwatch Guy his own series. Bring him back as the new Professor X. Bring him back as the new X-pionage Secret Weapon. Heck, bring him back as The Beast's fashion consultant, I don't care. Just bring him back.
Jack Kirby's world: holy cow, it's amazing. I'm not certain I wanna live in The World of Kirby, but it's a heckuva place to spend a holiday, isn't it? Or, to paraphrase J. B. S. Haldane: "Not only is Jack Kirby's universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."
'Absolutely no one would answer "Cyclops."'
ReplyDeleteExcept me. Cyclops happens to be my favorite mutant.
Morrison and Ellis might answer Cyclops, too. They've given him the most sympathetic and cool characterization in years.
ReplyDeleteI think you've committed the best paraphrase of J. B. S. Haldane that I will see all year.
ReplyDeleteI want Mister One to take out Penance.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to quibble here, but shouldn't Captain America be JUST a little more cautious about marveling over new mutants right IN FRONT OF MAGNETO? I don't CARE if they both hate Nazis.
ReplyDeleteI would draw a Mister One comic any day! Someone contact Marvel for me! :)
ReplyDeleteCount me in for Cyclops also. That's two!
ReplyDeleteI think its X-Factor v1 #84 (the one where Cyke sends his son to the future to save his life) but there is one comic where Claremont shows why Cyclops is the one true hero among the X-Men. He is truly selfless.
ReplyDeleteSo yeah, Cyclops is my favourite mutant.