X-Men love their family stuff

[dispatch]

When I joined Scans Daily, I had an entire plan to post this on Father's Day as my first post. And then I forgot. But better late then never so image heavy-ish post ahead.



This one was from Uncanny XMen #340. Iceman was undercover, keeping an eye out on Graydon Creed - the son of Sabertooth and Mystique. When Creed found out his parentage he became very anti-mutant. Now Iceman's dad previously did not approve of mutants. But because of what Iceman was, he ended up standing up for them in a public news cast. Then things fell apart.








And here is a hint at the opposite in Ultimate X-Men #13. The first appearance of Gambit. Here he is a street performer and while he is putting on one of his shows, a girl see him use his powers and believes it's magic. When he finds out the reason she is chasing after him is because she wants him to bring her mother back to life he ends up taking her in until he can get her to her next of kin.









The little girl ends up trying and sticking her hand out to try and catch the passing train. Gambit sees, yanks her away and starts yelling at her.







The phone number is from a girl he flirted with in the beginning.



Crappy dad, but Gambit tries to be different. When he wakes up, the girl is missing. Hammerhead had kidnapped the girl and Gambit heads off to get her back.



--- Ultimate X-Men #13 was a 24 page issue. Since I'm new, I tried to look over all the rules over how to post but if I for some reason missed something or did something wrong please tell me and I will fix it. I also tried to make sure no one had posted these before but if they were already posted, then I'm sorry for the double post.

Comments

[auggie18]

Fun fact about Graydon Creed! His mom was Mystique, who was also Nightcrawler's mom. Nightcrawler had an alternate reality daughter with the Scarlet Witch.

Ah, the Maximoff Family. Is there anyone you aren't related to?


Also, are they trying to do an accent with Bobby's dad? If so, what accent are they attempting? I'm a little confused.

Always enjoyed that little Gambit story.

Congrats on your first post!

[darkknightjrk]

"Ah, the Maximoff Family. Is there anyone you aren't related to?"

Spider-Man? Rocket Raccoon?

[dispatch]

Heh. Them and the Summers could populate the entire marvel universe.

Bobby was born and raised in New York, but that doesn't really mean that would be the dad's accent but I always imagined the dad had some sort of New England accent at least. Then again, all the scenes with Bobby talking - in this issue at least - do not have him with any written accent that I can tell. So his dad dropping the sounds may have just been because he was injured. But who really knows.

[salinea]

Ah, the Maximoff Family. Is there anyone you aren't related to?
Wolverine apparently :p

[brooms]

what's their connection to the richards? i know they're AU connected to the summers via rachel.

there must be one, but it's escaping me atm.

wanda has a very peculiar taste in men.

[arilou_skiff]

Lorna is together with Bobby, so the Maximoffs are connected to the Summers and thus to the Richards (and via Vision to the Pyms)

[crinos]

Yeah, considering his parentage, its no surprise Graydon hates mutants. Heck, when I first learned of the character, I thought Graydon was raised by Sabertooth (Heck, in the 90's cartoon, it was kind of implied that he did, considering how frightened Creed was of him and how the FOH finally got rid of him), but in the comics he was raised by Mystique, who just shipped him to boarding school when she found out he had no powers.

[stolisomancer]

It's weird.

You can tell that's a Chuck Austen story by the occasional beats here and there, and the way he mangles Gambit's accent, but it's far and away the best thing he ever produced for either of the big two comic publishers. There's no comparison. It's like he wrote that during the one month he was on his meds or something.

[icon_uk]

Except didn't he have to retcon in Bobby's Dad's initial attitude? I don't recall him being very anti-mutant before.

[stolisomancer]

The stuff with Bobby Drake is Lobdell. The stuff with Gambit is Austen.

[dispatch]

I don't remember if Lobdell was the one that retcon'd it since I don't remember when it was, but the main thing I remember was when Bobby brought a girl (I think it was Rouge) home and his Dad did not approve because she was a mutant. I can't really recall anything else though so it may have been started by Lobdell for all I know.

[starwolf_oakley]

William Drake being a jerk was started by Lobdell. I don't think Bobby's parents had appeared since the "Here's how Iceman met Xavier" story.

First he was frosty (pun intended) to Opal (Bobby's Japanese girlfriend) and a bunch of cybernetic samurai attacked them. Then he was rude towards Rogue (thinking she was Bobby's new girlfriend). I may have to read the issues again to see if William didn't like Bobby being a mutant or something else.

Given the whole "William Drake stands up to Graydon Creed" bit, maybe it wasn't "William disapproves of Bobby being a mutant" as much as "William disapproves of Bobby fighting Charles Xavier's war which can never be won."

[big_daddy_d]

Loved the Gambit story. Hated that he died in the annual.

[selke]

Ah, I loved that UXM issue. Such a good walk down memory lane.

[md84]

It's almost funny that Graydon Creed became just as bad a person as his parents despite not being raised by them (in the comics at least). Which is pretty impressive, since Victor Creed and Raven Darkholme are two of the worst people in the Marvel Universe (no small feat given the menagerie of monsters in the 616 universe alone). Yeah they have/had their soft spots -- Sabretooth was a Momma's boy who kept his elderly mother in the world's best retirement facility and visited her often and Mystique genuinely loves Rogue to the point of spending most of Messiah Complex trying to save Rogue from her fatal disease -- but if any member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants lived up to the "Evil" part of the name, it was them.

[cf105]

I honestly think that`s part of why Graydon was so much of a nut. He saw what his parents were and was absolutely terrified of them so he thought of nothing but how to destroy them. Or he`s a DC character in the MU (honestly does DC have to make character alignment genetic?)