Originally posted by Lord_Evan88
Well, I got the latest Gambit report today, straight from Mike Carey:
I can see this is something you feel deeply about, and I’ve got to admit that some of the things that have been done with Gambit in the past haven’t sat all that well with me, either. But let me address some of the comments in your post, without bull****.
It’s true that I don’t love Gambit, but I do think he’s a very cool character and I do enjoy him a lot when he’s written well. In my experience, you write a character first and then love comes, or doesn’t come, in the fullness of time. It’s also true that the compelling logic of having a Gambit scene springs partly from the presence of Rogue in my core team. But it also springs from having such an important, pivotal character floating out there with his story unresolved after huge, traumatic recent events. I’d probably want to bring Gambit back in even if I wasn’t writing Rogue, because somebody should and this was the book he was most a part of.
So, arising out of that, I don’t think it’s true - and don’t want it to be true - that having Gambit appear won’t be doing him a favour. It’s not just going to be a way-station on the road to something else that I’ve got planned for Rogue: it will genuinely be a chapter, even if it’s only a short one, in his story, and it will put the spotlight on where he is and on where he might be going.
Ultimately I don’t have Gambit’s fate - or any X-Men’s fate - in my hands. Decisions about major character developments will always be made in discussion between creators and editors. But story beats are also character beats, and in this way I’m making Gambit’s story still be a part of current and ongoing continuity. It’s obvious you disapprove of how Gambit was portrayed in BoA, and that you feel it was inconsistent with the character as previously established, but it can’t ever make sense to take the “let’s pretend that was all a dream” road. You have to start your journey from where you are. Otherwise - no matter how good your intentions are - you end up taking a shower with Bobby Ewing.
I’m trying very hard here not to make you any tendentious promises, because I suspect that when I come to write this scene it will leave you feeling less than satisfied. Because it *will* build from the situation in BoA. But it won’t be using Gambit to move Rogue on, or making him a cipher in a plot where someone else would have done just as well. Take it as you find it.
Mrs O - lots of Mystique action coming up in #192 and #193, in the Annual and in future arcs. She’s central to what I want to do with the book, and although it doesn’t look like it now, her many sins will be coming back to haunt her.
Lord E ( ME!)- thanks for the vote of confidence, and see above. I aim to do right by Remy, swear to God.
There's a good number of Gambit pics in it.
