Gambit has his own Marvel NOW! series? They kept that quiet! But it’s true, there are 3 volumes of Remy Lebeau’s antics from James “Quantum and Woody” Asmus, and, after reading the first one, I can see why no-one’s talking about it. It’s Gambit repeatedly doing his rogueish thief thing while a bunch of two-dimensional characters take him through some unengaging storylines. Gambit appears at a rich businessman’s private party to lift some expensive gear, just ‘cos he’s bored of being a teacher at...

Gambit decides to steal something for old times sake, he ends up making enemies and getting alien tech imbedded in him. This is a fun storyline with Gambit just along for the ride a lot of the time. The second half is considerably better when a crime boss forces Gambit to work for him, now that is classic Gambit and worthy of 4 stars. A good read, a very good read in part.

Gambit is as sexy, charming, fun and suave as ever! Pete wisdom came off like a complete jerk in this. It was cool that Excalibur is weld by a Muslim woman. It is a very fun read, but nothing deep and this isn't much character development. That's the only thing that stopped this from being 5 stars to me. I still found it to be a very enjoyable read. I did love the little bits of fan service;) There should be more in that in comics with the guys! ^_^

Featuring: zany Gambit shenanigans, with lots of naked body parts and campy action sequences. That's right mes amis!

Gambit is a smooth talking cajun with some serious sticky fingers and the ability to use kinetic energy as an explosive. In short he’s a pretty cool guy, however this set of issues was seriously lacking and I found myself kind of disappointed in my first venture into pure Gambit storyline.I rather like Gambit as a person, he’s kind of edgy and is not limited to his mutant ability as far as skills. However I feel like I didn’t really find a reason to care much about him in this, at least not like...

The art in this series is pretty good, but that story was cliché as can be.

Yes, I am aware that this review may be somewhat biased, seeing as how Gambit is my favorite comic character, but I think that would also entitle me to be more critical of any new ongoing he stars in.This series debuted a week after the new Hawkeye ongoing series, and while they both got grouped together in several previews and reviews, due to similarities in the nature of the characters (womanizing, reformed villain-types who have impeccable aim), it was obvious the Hawkeye series would continu...

Gambit was always one of my favourite characters from the X-Men cartoon I watched when I was little, but I've never really had much exposure to him beyond the primary-coloured animation I loved so much. So after reading and enjoying Hawkeye, I decided to give another Marvel Now title a whirl with everyone's favourite Ragin' Cajun.I liked the artwork (apart from the last two issues - what happened to Gambit's beautiful face?!) and Gambit is an interesting character, walking the line between "good...

Oh, Remy LeBeau, why can't Marvel let you be a truly dastardly scoundrel these days? One of the reasons I like Chris Claremont's Gambit is because he truly walked the line between good guy and bad guy and, in Howard Mackie's The Tithing story arc, we learned about a complex past steeped in the back alleys and shadows of New Orleans. To me, the best Gambit is an unapologetic thief whose wit and devil-may-care attitude make us forgive--but not forget--his shortcomings. What I don't enjoy is a Gamb...

this volume started with promise but issue by issue my interest fell. maybe it’s a personal thing — i don’t think gambit could ever be boring but this writer doesn’t do it for me. there are so many characters to keep track of and remembering who’s good and who’s bad was nearly impossible (especially considering it took me 4 days to read this!) i think if you read this all in one day it would be better.

An entirely OK comic. Asmus does a good job of characterizing Gambit if you can get past the fact that he goes and steals things when he's bored. However, the comic itself is pretty shallow, just one fast-paced heist after another. It's all well done, but it's not very filling. I also think that the comic is hurt by largely being a continuity-free zone. Finally meeting up with MI-13 in the last few issues is the height of the comic, but before that, Gambit could have been any roguish character w...

Indiana Jones, but with Gambit.Romance, danger, action... this is exactly the type of heist-based story I’d expect about Remy. It’s fun!There are many cool moments and some interesting new characters. I see a lot of potential here.The art was really good too! It reminded me of oldschool Greg Capullo. Remy’s face was very expressive and very... Gambitish.I look forward to more volumes of this!

Roomie handed me this when I was going through Hawkeye withdrawal, and I think it's a good way to fill the Hawk-hole now that Fraction's Hawkeye run is done. Remy LeBeau feels like a cross between Clint Barton and Robin Hood, but with an x-gene and a spectacularly-written Louisiana drawl. Lots of fun with pretty art.

If there was a 2.5 Star option it would get that. There are things I like about this, and things I don't, and things I just rolled my eyes at. I feel like Gambit has always been an underutilized character...he can be very fun, very entertaining, and also walks close to, and sometimes, past the anti-hero line. I feel like he doesn't get a ton of exposure in the new X-Men series' (Yes he was in X-Men Legacies but still...).This lets him just be him, and he starts out exactly like you want, casing

I was really excited for this. But I really did not like this. I can not come up with anything I liked about this. The art was pretty good...until the final issue. The dialogue was uncomfortable and some of the paneling was just confusing. I don't even want to get started on the plot.Definitely will not continue this series.

Finally the sweet talking, charismatic, enigmatic Gambit gets his own series. Gambit has always been a dark horse when it comes to X-Men, mostly under appreciated, with Wolverine, Magneto, Jean Grey, Cyclops, Storm and other high end mutants around no one really notices Gambit that much. Well Marvel has finally written him his own series and at best it is an incredibly fun ride.To set things straight, Gambit: Once a Thief is not an origin story, in this setting he is already known as part of the...

I vaguely remember Gambit from watching X-men cartoons as a kid, I think. But I don't remember him well enough to just jump in like this and actually care about Gambit's inconsequential adventures that're his own damn fault for messing with stuff he doesn't understand for the heck of stealing something. I mean, sure, if that's Remy's character, then... okay? But I know he has fans, and surely they're for something more substantial than this? Right?So yeah, not impressed with this. The art is gre...

Though sometimes exaggerated (because that's what the modern net does), there's undoubtedly a problem with objectification of female characters in superhero comics. So what better solution than a comic objectifying a male character instead, and what better male character than Gambit, whose fans mainly seem to have been crushing on him since the old cartoon? Every one of the first four issues sees him spending at least one scene topless, the highlight being the incident where, because of some plo...

This review originally posted at The Improbable Chuck: Canucks on ComicsGambit and Rogue were my OTP before that was even a term people used. I remember watching them on the old X-Men cartoon before school and loving every line of their Southern dialogue. And Gambit’s absence from the X-Men movies (let’s just pretend the Wolverine origin movie doesn’t count) was one of my biggest disappoints. So when I saw he was staring in his own comic series I knew I had to check it out.I thought this collect...

Story-wise, this book gets a two star rating. The third star is for Gambit himself, who is blackmailed into working for a criminal after destroying his collection of rarities in a heist gone awry. That part of the story isn't bad. It's the strange arc near the beginning involving Gambit being infected by an alien parasite and eventually battling dragons from another dimension that feels completely out of place. Overall, not a bad read, but not what I was hoping for.