Nothing's worse than early 00’s Gambit. If now he is a shadow of what he used to be, he was a completely different character under Austen and Milligan (and obviously Carey, likely the worst out of the three, because at least the other two were clueless; Carey, on the other hand, showed in interviews that he got Gambit but that never reflected on page cause, you know, he could never project himself in a character like Gambit).
That’s why I don’t think Gambit is at his all-time low now. He isn’t a different character just cause now he’s married to Rogue. Blaming this book for what he’s become is not objective. It goes way back, Gambit hasn’t been the same in years, with a few exceptions. Even Asmus tried to modernize him, even made fun of his old costume.
I love 90’s Gambit the most, he is the character I fell in love with as a child, he is the real Gambit. I’d love to see this Gambit make a comeback, I just don’t know how he could be fully in this boring politically correct world we live in now. For now, even with all this nostalgia vibe going on, it seems there is no interest in writing him as he was in the 90’s.
I know that to expect characters never to change is naïve but I’ll never get over the fact that this is not the Gambit I want to read, even if I don’t hate this version. It’s not ideal but there had been darker moments than this. Overall, I wouldn’t trade this Gambit for Austen’s, Milligan’s, much less Carey’s versions, those were not Gambit at all.
