Greetings and Salutations LONEBAMF!
Pleezedtameetcha!
BAMF!
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Greetings and Salutations LONEBAMF!
Pleezedtameetcha!
BAMF!
HI!! Welcome to the board, nice to meet ya. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Hey Lonebamf! Long time no see! I thought you disappeared of the face of the planet. Welcome back and happy posting!
Hi there everyone, I hope no one gets angry at me for posting something kinda off topic- I just wanted to say "hi!" I'm new to the NC monument- though definitely not new to the elf-worship ^.~ I feel foolish for waiting so long to start coming here and seeing all the stuff other Kurt fans are talking about ^o^ I hope I can come up with interesting things to say ^.^;;
so yeah--- HI!
hi Lonebamf! a nother memebr of the 'bamf' related names club.. there's me, (er... i go by Bamfette on X-Fan...) BAMF, BAMFCentral, and now you! group hug!
hello! nice to meet you! another buddy who likes the elf!! yay! i hope we can be friends [img]graemlins/present.gif[/img]
WELCOME! [img]smile.gif[/img]
Hi!
I never really post, so nobody knows me, but I'm gonna start so...i'm kinda new too. Yeah to the newbies!!!
Hey...I'm a Little Bamf too...only been hanging around for a couple of months...it's nice to have a little place for us elf-freaks to call our own...
Welcome and have fun...that's what Kurt's all about!
Yay! Now I don't feel so weird for being new to the board... I wanted to ask a random question, and I hope nobody thinks I'm terribly odd for it, but I'm just sorta curious aas to how everyone became a 'crawler fan. It seems to me that most people the board are fans of the old swashbuckling, Errol Flynn loving Nightcrawler, which makes me think that most people here are old hands, Excalibur and old X-men fans (well- if I'm to read anything from one of the other posts- there are a LOT of Excalibur fans ^.^) I'm just curious...
Oh yeah- I suppose I should answer the question I'm asking- for me- it was sort of a sudden thing- Excalibur issue 57 and 58- bang! There's this one page- the expression on his face- man, yeah- I was hooked. ^.^ Just a question
Well, I was a little kid watching an episode of "Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends" with the X-Men guest staring and there was this wierd-looking blue demon-guy. I was really impressed that there was this evil-looking guy, with a spooky power, who was even a prankster, but he was a HERO. I thought that really cool, so when I was old enough to buy comics I checked out the X-Men and found I really liked alot about that spooky, blue guy I remembered.
Hmmm...
Well...I first got into the X-Men through the rather unusual route of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...really...the original comic was a parody of X-Men, Dare Devil and Ronin...but because its shipping date was so spasmodic, I decided to look up X-Men 'cos I liked the 'team' aspect. The first issue I got was #276...and Kurt wasn't even in the book at the time, he was kicking butt in Excalibur...so I liked Wolverine at the time...still do, but no where near as much as Kurt.
Being something of a completist, I went out in search of back issues...and thanks to re-prints and trade paperbacks, I think I'm missing two issues since the new team came in, and a few annuals...and my interest, and devotion, slowly turned to the blue-hued cutie...I liked his love of life, the way he so totally accepted himself for who he was, the way he could make you laugh...he could even get Logan to lighten up...and the way he just looked so wickedly cool! That, and the fact that I've always felt a bit of a misfit myself...a grown woman that reads comicbooks, watches cartoons and plays videogames? We're a rare breed...
So naturally I went back to the comic bins, managing to find ALL the back issues of Excalibur...but then there wasn't nearly as many of those...and grabbed just about every thing I could find that he appeared in...
And my feelings haven't changed...no new characters could take his place...not even the much hyped Gambit...who I think is something of a Nightcrawler rip-off anyway...both have accents, both are charming, flirting with everything in sight (pre priest days), both are extremely agile, both have girlie pink power signatures...
And who was it that made the cut for X2, hmmm?
Long live the misfit!
I'm probably gonna get ragged on for this....
Okay, so I watched this show called gundam Wing...and there was this really cute Blond guy on it> the sweet innocent type, you know. Then his dad got shot, one of his 29 sisters died, and he went nuts. i stooped watching Gundam Wing. (Well, really it was cause that damn things like a soap opera and i couldn't watch it all the time, and it got reeeealy confusing...'Look, i can braid my hair and go Psycho!!'ummm...don't ask...) But I still like the blond guy, so I looked up his voice actor and saw he did some other voices I liked and some i didn't know. Well, only one of those other voice was avalible for viewing with out paying many many dollars was this dude he did on X-men evolution named Nightcrawler. i didn't know much about Nightcrawler, except I read a book with him once, and he was my favorite Charater in it, cause he was friends with my faovrite Star Trek charas(It was a cross over book) and he was just cool. So, I watched Evolution. And i feel in love. And ended up paying this dude $10 so I could borrow his tape for the weekend. Then i realized that this chara must be in more mediums, looked him up on the web and absorbed information on everything about him until I became a nightcrawler Know it all...you know, if I'd just spent the money on one of those other shows Brad Saile had been in, it probably would cost me less, cause I dubt there much merchandise for My little pony tales....at least not as much as on Kurt.
Wow.... GUNDAM to BRAD SWAILLE to NIGHTCRAWLER...what a unique way to become a card carrying Elfaholic! (Btw TERRA ditto about DATA and Kurt in that X-MEN/STAR TREK:TNG novel!)
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Nandireya:
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I wish there were more of ya NADIREYA, especially here in South Florida!
I was drawn to/got hooked on the character for kinda the same reasons as a lot of my fellow Elfaholics....how cool, freaky, unusual, and wierd he looked when I first saw him! (Kudos to DAVE COCKRUM for that of course)
The book was an old ish of Uncanny X-Men....# 104 to be exact....and I traded an old Spider-Man comic for it back in grade school just because I was curious about the funny looking blue guy with 'chicken-feet' that I saw on the cover. Once I got to know the character I instantly bonded with him and adopted him as my favorite X-Man! (He eventually passed Batman and tied Spidey for the title of "My favorite Superhero") Been a rabid 'Elfmaniac' ever since!
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BAMF!
lets see.. i guess i'm kind-of-sort-of recent Elfaholic. see i wasn't into comics at all (tho i loved cartoons based on comic, X-Men and Spider-Man, liked the Batman movies..er.. the first two anyway...) until i was like 18 when someone gave me some Sandman trades as a gift and i realized hey comics were purdy cool. so i started picking them up at the corner store if i saw them, try whatever tickled my fancy judging by the cover or whatever. usually X-Men cause i liked the cartoon. i discovered i especially liked X-men comic as well as the show [img]smile.gif[/img] but Kurt was not a member of the team then! but since i had decided X-Men was my favourite, i started collecting it and invested in some trades of back-issues and thus, i discovered Nightcrawler. he appealed to me imensely straight off the bat. his design and attitude were this great paradox, plus paradoxes aside, he was just cool looking! i never liked characters with point and shoot powers or are imensely powerful, so his powers appealed to me as well. i had to find out whre he had dissapeared to in the current comics and i eventually figured out he was in Excalibur just in time for it to be canceled shortly thereafter [img]frown.gif[/img] admitedly Excalibur at that time was not great, but nontheless i went and got the backissues... after reading the early Excalibur i went from regular fan to diehard fan of Nightcrawler. [img]smile.gif[/img]
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Nocturne:
... after reading the early Excalibur I went from regular fan to diehard fan of Nightcrawler. [img]smile.gif[/img] </font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>
NOCTURNE that is sooooo great to hear! What a thrill it is knowing that so many fans became crazy about the character from those awesome, early EXCALIBUR issues! Nightcrawler once thought to himself "Once an X-MAN, always an X-MAN"....very true, but I believe that it was the title and team of EXCALIBUR that brought out the very best in Kurt Wagner !
BAMF!
Ha! Yeah- I DEFINITELY know what you mean about the earlier Excaliburs. I first came across them in my friend's comic collection- I knew nothing about comics at the time- but she was a die-hard shadowcat fan, and since the powers that be figured out that Kitty and Kurt made a great team (helloooo! Is anyone out there LISTENING???? grr...) wherever there was Shadowcat, ther was also Nightcrawler. I totally passed over Kitty in favor of the "cool blue guy with the swords!" - I also sorta instantly fell into the catagory of all the angry fans who got mad at Captain Britain and wanted Kurt and Meggan to run off together. (Hey- Cap got better- --but still-- in those early issues- sheez...)
About the power thing- I totally know what you mean. I always got upset with superheroes that had to many powers. After I had been a fan for a little while- and I "expanded my horizons" to look at some of the other characters, I found myself really bored with all the characters who were just these mega-super-people. Too many powers, and there's not a lot of room left for personality. But I found myself reading comics going "He can teleport... that's... such a lame power... THAT'S SO COOL!!!!!!" I had many arguments with my comic-reading friends about that one. (Heck, I wish I could teleport- I'm always locking myself out of the house...) SO..yeah.. man- that was longer than it needed to be...
Early Excalibur is probably about the only time i was a fan of Claremont's writing. the rest of the time i endure it, but don't like it. (i read it like so -- "yadayadayadayadayada oh useful bit yadayadayadayadyadayada skim an entire page... oh! useful bit balablablabla... i mean honestly half the stuff written is drawn right there in the art! sheesh!) but he had hit on something with Excalibur. the mix of characters and humour and situations just worked. not to mention the art. look at the art from the other X-titles of the day then look at Excalibur - NO COMPARISON! you can barely tell what was going ON in X-Men in those issues, the art was fugly. but Davis's art was crisp, clear easy to follow and just plain purdy. how i miss it so.... and i wasn't even there when it was in it's glory days.
and about the powers. yup, as i said, what fun is it to read about acharacter who can save the world (or destroy it) by blinking? *yawn* i like my guys to be underdogs! saving the day despite facing overwhelming odds! have you seen what's happened to Rogue??? egad, i wish morrison had gotten her so he could have kileld her like he wanted to. she was interesting when she was first introduced, but she is boring now, and even more so now that she has the powere of EVERYONE she has ever touched at her disposal.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by BAMF:
Wow.... GUNDAM to BRAD SWAILLE to NIGHTCRAWLER...what a unique way to become a card carrying Elfaholic! (Btw TERRA ditto about DATA and Kurt in that X-MEN/STAR TREK:TNG novel!)
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Data AND Gerodi. That woulda probably hooked me to him then, nut I was....8 or 9 I think. The only comics I read were Barbie and Betty and Veronica. Still, I always remembered him after that...and feel so smart when I knew who that kid was in X-men on the basket ball court...and then felt stupid when I figured out that wasn't who is was....And yes, I do everything unique!! [img]tongue.gif[/img] I know have the crazy Quatre laugh down pat. Liven parties and scare you friend out of there mind when you come up behind them!!!
But Kurt's got heaps of powers and abilities...
Beside his teleporting, he's got the agility thing...some sources say it's part of his mutancy, some say it's just hard work...he can stick to just about anything...he can become all but invisible in shadows...his got that ever so handy tail...he's got a completely flexiable, cat-like spine...and, though he never uses them in a nasty way, his got fangs.
And then there's his learned skills...martial arts...fencing...acrobatics...
The guy can kick serious butt...but chooses not to...he'd rather talk his way out of things...
And yet teleportation and the occasional sticking to things is about all the writers ever seem to use. Rogue really has the power of ANYBODY she's EVER touched? That is just so lame! Now I'm glad I don't get X-treme. I like my superheroes with a bit of vulnerability...
yep he's got a lot of powers at his disposal, and they are very useful and cool powers. but they are not earth shattering powers. not deus ex machina powers. he can't blast away anything/anyone with force/plasma/heat/laser etc. beams, he can't stand 10 feet away and knock his opponenent unconsious by jsut thinking about it, he can't endure a beating that would kill 10 men and just brush it off like Rogue or Wolverine. powers or no, he's gotta work for a victory... but that is why i love him so [img]smile.gif[/img] he still kicks ass, and his power do help him, but in more subtle, and i think, cool ways...
as for Rogue. yep. tho i have not read it seeing as i do not read X-Treme either, Sage, you know, thier handy-dandy mutant power making machine, jump started her powers and she now has complete control over the powers of everyone she has ever touched.... i wish we still had the rolling eyes smiley.
like the X-Treme team wasn't already powerful ENOUGH with Rogues usual powers of invulnerability and absorption, a 'living computer', a chick who's power is to 'do whatever is needed' Storm with control over weather and lightning (tho she is cool, but way powerful) a teleporter who can go anywhere on the globe taking the entire team with him, and to top it off you have Thunderbird III with his lovely plasma beams serving as Bishop's battery! gawd...
how i became a ?crawler fan? geez, i guess i could write a book about that heh!
well i saw him the first time in a videogame, then when i started to buy x-men classic he chaptured my attention, i was 13 years old now i'm 22, well he catched my interest and i started to look for excalibur issues, i don't know maybe he caught my attention due his interesting personality, i start to wonder how he could be such a good guy in despite of his features, but anyway, i think i was the only one (at least here where i live!) but i found the forum and now i can't live without it, and without Kurt of course!!!!!!!!!
I must have been napping to miss this thread! Oops! First off, a big. belated HELLO to Lonebamf! And Terra, if I haven't said so before.
Nandireya said: "I've always felt a bit of a misfit myself...a grown woman that reads comic books, watches cartoons and plays video games? We're a rare breed..."
But we do exist. I'm 26, and one of the biggest geek-girls I know. Long live the misfits!
Now, In a roundabout way, my Kurt obssesion is my husband's fault. He's collected comics for 15 years and even used to own a comic shop. I started reading his books so I could understand what the hell he and his friends were always talking about. Through him I read his favorites, Defenders and Hulk, and Avengers, FF, Spidey, Batman and some JLA/JSA. Then I started reading X-Men, much to his disapointment. It was around Operation Zero Tolerence when I started reading, and soon these great, funny characters showed up on a cruise ship, returning from Muir Island. I immediately loved the funny blue guy and the girl, only REALLY learning who they were later. I told my husband how much I liked them and he said, "oh, well then, you should be reading Excalibur." The rest is history. I now have Excalibur's complete run, and am working on collecting prominant Kurt issues. I started cruising the Web, finding Bamf Central and UC's old Indigo Elf site before I ever "met" those guys here. I also discovered the Wizard World thread where this board originated back in summer 2000, and followed everybody here. So, see, it's my husband's fault. ;^) That's what I tell him anyway, when he rolls his eyes at me when I fondle the blue velvet pillows on the sofa.
:^D
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Slartibartfast:
So, see, it's my husband's fault. ;^) That's what I tell him anyway, when he rolls his eyes at me when I fondle the blue velvet pillows on the sofa.
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LOL!
BAMF!
Yeah, my mom made me a little Kurt stuff doll with this fuzzy blue fabric she has. It's really out of propotion and all, but I love it, cause she did it with no patern or anything...It's still kinda scary sometimes though....
I'm not gonna pretend I haven't made the occassionaly bamf doll... Though I usually make mine out of felt or whatever materials are available. I've recently been on a sewing kick (darn summer!) so I'll probably end up making a new one... as if there weren't enough plush dolls in my room...
I started a bamf doll a while back, and then gave it up. I need to get that little guy back out and work on him. I used a modified teddy bear pattern, and I think it'll work out okay if I just stick to it.
Funny story: Hubby and I were watching TV the other night when we saw the yogurt commercial featuring the husband and wife role-playing with the wife in a French maid costume. Their daughter comes in with a gape-mouthed friend and complains about how weird her parents are. We laughed at the commercial and my husband jokingly said we should try that.
ME: "Ah, honey, you want to wear a French maid outfit for me?"
HUBBY: "No, I'd have to paint myself blue and wear pointy Spock ears for you."
ROTFLMAF! He got me good, didn't he? I should have asked him if he would.
:^D
LOL slarti!
btw, the wizard's annual costume halloween contest is about to begin! any takers?
well, i'm a girl so i wont be going as Nightcrawler. but after several comments to the effect of 'you look like Mystique!' specifically the picture i drew of her:
http://www.bronzepig.com/x-assault/mystique.jpg
i didn't do it on purpose, but looking at it now, yeah i guess there is a resemblence... so i am considering painting myself blue and going as everyone's favourite shapeshifting psychopath [img]tongue.gif[/img] see, my hair is already the right cut, right length, and close to the right colour at the moment.... (tho i have some blonde streaks, but no biggie) just not as much volume. i already wear contacts so i could probably order some yellow ones.... yep if i'm going as anyone, i'm going as Mystique.
<font color="#2c557f" size="1">[ June 07, 2002 09:08 PM: Message edited by: Nocturne ]</font>
Big wave to LoneBamf!!!!! welcome on board!
LOL!!! Slarti, you're killing me!
For me it was that fateful giant sized issue, it was love at first sight...and yup, it's about time to make a new bamfie doll.
Pandora
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Nocturne:
well, i'm a girl so i wont be going as Nightcrawler. but after several comments to the effect of 'you look like Mystique!' specifically the picture i drew of her:
i didn't do it on purpose, but looking at it now, yeah i guess there is a resemblence... so i am considering painting myself blue and going as everyone's favourite shapeshifting psychopath [img]tongue.gif[/img] see, my hair is already the right cut, right length, and close to the right colour at the moment.... (tho i have some blonde streaks, but no biggie) just not as much volume. i already wear contacts so i could probably order some yellow ones.... yep if i'm going as anyone, i'm going as Mystique.
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pretty nice Nocturne! we gotta see!