There are so many X characters populating the comics world these days all fighting for their moment in the sun so to speak but there was a time, not that long ago, when a new character was to be celebrated and that was how Gambit came to be. He was first introduced in Uncanny as someone Ororo came across and subsequently brought back to the mansion. And as time develops, SPOILER ALERT, he developed feelings for Rogue and his friendship with Ororo became distant.
He was always portrayed as a Nightcrawler type of swashbuckler thief who has his ways with the ladies and we guessed he liked the unattainable ones especially since Rogue's powers does not permit skin contact
Anyhow, as time went by, his entire history became very convoluted with the X-teams finding out he has a wife, then his died, then supposedly she didn't and then he was a villain before he joined the X-Men and subsequently maybe he just was a villain all along ... sigh ... while it is good that characters grow but total changes like this feels a little too much ...
As for this, it is his first limited series of a few before he got his start in an ongoing that didn't last before he finally faded in obscurity of a sort although he makes his appearances here and there including a Wolverine movie hehehe
So in this issue what you need to know is in New Orleans there are two factions - one is thieves and one is assassin. Gambit was adopted into the thieves faction while his wife was an assassin. He fell in love, they brokered peace between the guilds and subsequently he left her. The guilds are formed by a lady named Candra who gave them gifts of powers n long life and what-not and she herself is an External, an offshoot of mutants who can live extremely long lives almost immortal like
Confusing eh?
But for some reason by his leaping about and swinging a stick, Gambit can defeat all the assassins that come at him be it here or in other books and that sort of makes you think if assassins are like the hand ninjas = mere cannon fodder hahahaah
So ... one more time ... this issue deals with Gambit coming home to his in-laws to see for himself that his wife is indeed back from the dead although we are not told how and why. While here, Rogue his then girlfriend follows without his permission to discover the truth though one wonders why as he is not divorced yet! Anyhow, his brother in law, in a state of greed has broken some age old covenant and went for more than the assassins entitlement and is now depicted as a man with weird facial expressions draped in black who kills or attempts to kill Gambit and all his family
And as this issue unfolds, it focuses very well on both story and action which is the saving grace here because while the art is good taken on a panel by panel basis but as a whole, it feels very much rushed and a style of its times, if you know what we meant
Ratings: 5/10
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