VANISHER: THE ORGANIZER

VANISHER: THE ORGANIZER Vanisher offers the Fallen Angels a home while expecting their activities to support him. His version of looking after young outsiders comes with a comfortable arrangement for the adult in charge. The group gives him an audience, a workforce and somebody to order around. By #5, the practical side of that arrangement is explicit: the members are sent out to obtain money and food. The question of how this household survives is part of its daily life, and Vanisher is happy for other people to answer it. His teleportation gives him a particularly convenient way of avoiding consequences. During the dangerous excursion in #4, he disappears while others deal with the threat. A power that could help organize a rescue can also take its owner somewhere safer. Calling him the group's organizer describes his place without granting him the wisdom of a mentor. His authority is repeatedly tested by what happens when the children require more than a roof and a recruitment speech. Issue anchors: #4–5. My take: Vanisher is one of my least favorite characters in Marvel. He's one of the most annoying characters. He comes on in one of the very early Uncanny X-Men comics in the 1960s, and he just thought he was the most powerful villain in the world. He was obnoxiously prideful and annoying as hell. But he changes a lot over time. He shifts and changes who he is over time, and he's a little less annoying as we get into the more recent comics. He kind of earned his place after a while, but there were some really fun times in the beginning. I remember one time he and Nightcrawler get caught in some dimensional world. It was a weird world, and it was really weird. But they got some cool stories with him after a while.