Nightcrawler #5

Kurt Wagner looks anything but welcoming in this 2014 All-New Marvel NOW! installment, as the blue-skinned, yellow-eyed Nightcrawler looms before a classroom chalkboard that reads "Professor Wagner" — surrounded by a chaotic flurry of paper airplanes, crumpled notes, and flying pencils. Jamie McKelvie's cover art captures a wonderfully tense duality: the swashbuckling X-Man trying to hold down the role of educator while clearly at the end of his patience. With Chris Claremont back at the helm and Todd Nauck and Rachelle Rosenberg bringing vibrant energy to the interiors, this series continues to explore what it means for Nightcrawler to carve out a new place among the X-Men.