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Oh! And if you'd prefer to download a drm-free PDF copy for yourself / your reader / to share - you can get it off my Dropbox HERE. (!)

Hi Comic Viners!

As I told Tony (aka G-Man) on the Super-Massive podcast, I helped develop a tv show for History Channel that just premiered Monday called CRYPTID: The Swamp Beast exploring and following the murky line between superstition, folklore, and dark reality in a rural Louisiana bayou community. And in celebration, I teamed up with artist Sina Grace (Adventure Time, Li'l Depressed Boy) on turning one of the many, many wild and creepy accounts we heard from locals.

You can read it on my Tumblr HERE.

This one was juicy enough that I thought it deserved a comic :) I hope you dig it. And thank you for keeping this site great.

The show itself airs Mondays at 10pm / 9 Central on History - or on demand.

+james

PS - feel free to repost & even torrent this particular comic. As long as the credits & the show info are in tact. The producers were nice enough to pay Sina when I said I wanted to do this, so I figure we owe 'em that much ;)

I love 2,3, and 9 the most. 1 & 5 didn't do that much for me. Even though I love LaFuente.

A whole crop of current Marvel comics have ORBIT gum logos littered throughout.  :P

Hello Comic Vine friends!   After a few years of writing comics for Marvel, I'm developing an off-beat independent comic book project!  Check out our Kickstarter page for some more info, even more art, and the change to get copies of the comic or even be drawn into the story.  
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1854961879/apocalyptic-buddy-comedy-the-life-and-end-times-of
  
  Thank you for checking it out.
+James 

Wow! #3.  Way better than I've finished before. 
 
 
Here's a helpful clue on A Record Of What Came Before -- you're looking for a "volume" not an issue.

Not working on the newly redesigned site.  Just sits there black.

AOA - good question.  Nightcrawler was my #1 character that got me into comics.  But, sadly, there aren't a ton of great stories for him outside of bigger team-focused tales. 
  
ONE-SHOTS:
X-Men: Origins - Nightcrawler was a pretty good one-shot recently.   I would also recommend one of the first comics I wrote - awkwardly titled X-Men: Manifest Destiny - Nightcrawler.  It got a little muddled in its journey from proposal (a miniseries) to its ultimate fate (a one-shot with a few mandated changes).  But I would say that if you like Nightcrawler, you should enjoy the center 80% of the book.   
 
As for single-issues:  maybe Excalibur #31 & Uncanny #204
 
MINISERIES: 
There was a solid (if surprising) limited series in 2004 just titled Nightcrawler that lasted 12 issues.  The first few issues aren't great, but the series improves as it goes along.  I don't think you'd 'miss' anything if you got issues 7-12 of that one.   
 
STORY ARCS: 
My personal favorites would be the ones that got me hooked in the first place - early issues of Excalibur and the #122-165-ish range of Uncanny X-Men.  Some of the later Excalibur stuff is good (I'd consider either the Alan Davis or Warren Ellis collections) - and certainly a more modernly paced reading experience.   
 
AVOID: 
Chuck Austin's X-Men stuff.   -  Unfortunately, one guy who actually spent time on Nightcrawler was one of the most widely reviled runs on the book.  I approached it with an open mind, but did not enjoy those books at all. 
The first Nightcrawler mini (from the mid-80s) is pretty cartoony and, IMHO, doesn't hold up well.   He had a four-issue mini in the early 2000s that was bone dry and not particularly rewarding.  

My wife said "Rogue".  Due to the X-Men movies and cartoon.  That answer surprised me, but it makes sense.

I give up.  Can someone PM me the first of his "Former Flames"?