Aaron Diaz of Dresden Codak took a shot at redesigning Nightcrawler yesterday and I like what he came up with and I wanted to draw it! Coming up with colors for the costume was a challenge, and I have a few different versions, but the top one is my favorite (thank you Magnolia for helping me out).

Nightcrawler’s classic circus costume is actually one of my favorites so I didn’t want to veer too much from the black/red/white color scheme. I also really love that Aaron added in swords to his costume, but after about a half-hour of wrestling with shoulder harnesses and scabbards and foreshortening I said “FORGET THIS” and left them off. Sorry Kurt.

My favorite thing about this redesign is that it brings Nightcrawler back to what made him my favorite X-Man: a devilish swashbuckling Errol Flynn mutant that gets drunk with Wolverine on the weekends. Through the 90s and 00s he turned into this brooding sadsack of a character that just wasn’t fun to be around. The fun of Nightcrawler was that he looked demonic but didn’t let that get in the way of him having a good time.

KURT WAGNER.

4 weeks ago

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