You know I'm operating off of old info. I don't know what's been happening with any of the characters in the comics for the past 25 years. I just have what I read in my head and back then Nightcrawler was mostly MIA until the Excalibur comic books came out. I collected during a low part of his comic history meanwhile Rogue was doing amazing stuff in the Uncanny X Men. I'm really just saying MY favorites are Rogue, Storm and the Phoenix stuff is always great with Jean Grey.
i grew up with the big 4 x books too. while rogue and kurt have remained consistent. i dont think youd be happy with the way jean" the mind raper" grey has been. storms been pushed to the forefront more, but like i said shes a perfect being even when wrong. thats not even mentioning all the charcters that were thrown off a damn cliff for no reason. things changed at lot in 25 years. hell the phoenix was an avenger central character for a hot minute