TJ-Farseer

Love comics with an emphasis on Gambit and Rogue. Robin Hobb fan. Tetris fan. Also enjoy making lists. https://tj-farseer.tumblr.com/archive

[gambitfan266]

Rogue and remy:

Rogue and remy in their current solo series:

What is happening, why are they so out of character, what is this writer trying to do, Rogue literally haven't smiled once and is blaming everything that happens on remy. And remys drinking too often. Why are they so different in two comic runs going on at the exact same time.

Also "finally be the one you trust and love"?! What. Ok this is no longer canon to me. It ignored 30 years of romy comics.

[tj-farseer]

Jubilee and the Art of Test Taking

Love this moment between Beast and Jubilee.

[rogue-gambit-fan-zine]

Home & Harbor - A Rogue/Gambit FanZine

Welcome to our interest check! Home & Harbor will be a Rogue and Gambit non-profit fanzine celebrating the fifth anniversary of Rogue and G

Let's go Romy fans! Just three weeks left to complete the interest survey for the Rogue and Gambit Charity Fanzine, Home and Harbor and get on our mailing list for updates and sneak peeks! Please like, re-blog, tag, and give us your input! Spread the word far and wide! 💚💜🙌🎉 @zine-scene @zinesubmissions @zinefeed @zinefans @zineforall @atozines

[tj-farseer]

Here is a Guardians of the Galaxy banner I made right before the first movie came out for a message board(modified by replacing the board name with the Groot translation). The background “ship” they are in is from a Jack Kirby splash page from Devil Dinosaur(1978) #5.

[ilargikat]

Once upon a time at Marvel offices

[applejacks1552]

A brief rant on Rogue and Gambit volume 2, now that we are past issue 2.

Exactly WHO is this book for?

I honestly don't know.

I don't get the angle this book is taking and why anyone would think THIS is what fans of Rogue, Gambit or both characters would want.

They are both coming off as complete and utter assholes.

Rogue is a cold, mean, emotionally abusive bossy workaholic with no empathy or sense of fun.

Gambit is a hapless, charmless incompetent drunk with apparently no regard for the safety of innocent lives now ... so that's new I guess along with being a drunk.

This writer gives us almost nothing playful or cute between them, only biting words and very few of them at that. No thought bubbles either. So very little actual story.

Where is any of the banter or flirting or charm that has characterized them for nearly 30 years? Where is any sense of fun or emotional depth?

Then suddenly they go from being completely cold to each other to completely hot ... and we basically totally skip the hot part? WHY?!? On what planet is THAT the part you smash cut out?! So yes, sex in the desert and then right back to arguing. That's how that works ... said no one who has ever had sex. (And for those whining, desert sex would be better than freezing cold cave sex actually. )

Otherwise there is one more tiny awkward moment of connection when they dance, only to interrupt it for the stupid hero misunderstanding fight with BP that frankly we are all VERY sick of. It's a tired trope. Please stop it. It's illogical. It's dumb. No.

Honestly I could not care less about this plot with the kidnapped mutants. Really kind of a copy off the volume 1 plot tbh, but far less interesting.

Then the worst crime ... having Gambit put an innocent woman in harms way for a diversion. Something he has never done before nor that I can buy. It was so badly out of character that it's just plain character assasination at this point. Just what his character needed, more abuse by another writer. And honestly, Rogue goes along with it despite complaining so she's truly being an asshole too. She's not off the hook.

This is a relationship story that needed a chisel to smooth over the Excalibur/KoX damage and instead they came at it with an pickaxe. There is no nuance. No subtlety.

I really don't get when writers take the "let's make everyone terrible" angle for a story as if that's what would bring any fan of any character that they love enjoyment or lure in new fans. Yes ... it's just SO great to pay nearly $5 just to experience your favorite characters being truly their worst selves? Thanks, I guess? But I surely could have found a hate-fic for free, you know. It burns all the more after sitting through several years of similarly unenjoyable writing just prior to this. The Krakoan era has sucked big time for Romy fans.

Even if you compare this mini to the short piece from X-Men that Duggan wrote that supposedly inspired this series, that Rogue and Gambit were in synch and charming and fun together. Cracking jokes. Rogue in sunglasses and bringing cake. Fighting side-by-side. Not making snide comments at each other.

And this isn't even some slightly juvenile but charming trashy fun in the way that X-Terminators was or one of those classic loveable losers type stories, where sure ... the characters are all pretty flawed but they still have true heart.

This Rogue and Gambit don't have that heart.

At this point I'm past mad. I'm just disappointed. Especially after the abysmal last few years for them.

Put this characterization up against how they are being written in Captain Marvel or X-Treme X-Men right now and it's just night and day. Those writers treat them both with so much respect and show them respecting each other.

Can the editors and writer not tell the difference between normal marital strife and dangerously toxic, emotionally abusive behavior?

Where is the beautiful emotional intelligence of R&G volume 1 or MMX?

Also ... THREE "mon cheri" usages?! Just no. NO. Stop that. WHY?!?!

I have been reading these characters for decades and this was just ... 🤦‍♀️

It has to get better. It literally cannot get much worse.

[ilargikat]

So basically R&G #2 is this :

From the X-office to Gambit/Rogue fans :

[tj-farseer]

Gambit. The Thing.  Poker.

Wolverine #53

X-Men(1991) #48

A+X #6

X-Men(2021) #2

X-Men(2021) #10

[tj-farseer]

So can we say it’s canon that Mr. Fantastic takes fashion advice from Gambit-

From Fantastic Four(2022) #5

This post inspired by big-gay-apocalypse’s post here-

https://big-gay-apocalypse.tumblr.com/post/711628338883657728/fantastic-four-2022-5

As soon as I saw that panel I remembered we had seen that look on Remy.  Just thought it was funny.

[tj-farseer]

Cable- “Don’t know how Gambit manages to maneuver around in a big coat...” From Cable #22.

He’s just that good, Cable----

[tj-farseer]

Spider-Man and Doctor Strange by the amazing Steve Ditko!

[tj-farseer]

Wow, I really hate that Rogue and Gambit are having trouble finding time to hang out together and that their relationship is deteriorating so much because of Rogue’s duties in the X-Men(per the first issue of the new Rogue & Gambit series).

Uh, wait a minute...

Never mind for a second that it would more than likely be Gambit’s jaunts to Otherworld that would have kept them separated the most and also never mind that they both are very familiar by now with the costs and problems that come with being an X-Man, and never mind that they have access to numerous gates that provide instantaneous transport to most of the places they both hang out, and never mind that Gambit and Rogue are both very independent people that would have no trouble finding ways to occupy their time, and never mind that this would have taken place over only a few months based on the Marvel sliding timescale, and never mind that... oops I lost my train of thought.

Anyway here is Gambit being very happy for Rogue making the X-Men(and Gambit even mentioning the gates)-

And following are some instances of them doing stuff together between the obligations and duties they BOTH had throughout the time Rogue was with the X-Men.

This first one is a bit of a cheat since it came out around the same time as the first Gala, but you get the idea(from Marvel Voices: Pride 2021)-

And here are some instances of Gambit hanging around the Treehouse or going on missions with Rogue(from X-Men 2, 9, 10, and Black Panther 3)-

And a few more of them just being together having a good time recently(from the X-Men Infinity Maggott arc, X-Men: Trial of Magneto 4, and X-Terminators 4)-

And yeah, this sure looks like a relationship that needs fixing(from Knights of X 5 and the Karma in Love arc in the Love Unlimited Infinity comic)-

And finally the best modern Rogue and Gambit writer’s word on the subject(Captain Marvel 43)-

[tj-farseer]

Okay, this is just a small nit pick among the myriad of more real problems I had with the first issue of the new Rogue & Gambit series, but why in the world were Gambit and Rogue apparently planning to wear their uniforms/costumes on a fancy date at a nice restaurant?  I know Marvel was/is trying to push this “mutant clothes” nonsense, but come on!  Anyone remember when the X-Men used to wear normal clothes, and dress up nice for dates?

[tj-farseer]

Marvel corner boxes.  Some 90s ones this time!

[rogueslove]

Rogue and Gambit by Chris Samnee

[tj-farseer]

Yes, I am the one that commissioned this sketch.  I loved Chris Samnee’s art on Thor: The Mighty Avenger(and all his later Marvel projects), and was lucky enough to make it on his commission list.  And, of course, I just had to request Rogue and Gambit(in their 90s outfits!).  Especially since I didn’t know at the time if he would ever draw them in the comics.

[caosenelviento]

GAMBIT by CHRIS SAMNEE

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Rogue by Chris Samnee

[tj-farseer]

I wish he could have drawn Rogue and Gambit in a comic when he was with Marvel.