#excalibur17

[gaknar]

This cover has almost no contextual relevance to the story in this comic book, and I’m here to complain about it. Absolutely nowhere in this comic is there the Captain Britain themed beauty contest that this cover is depicting. What kind of kick in the pants false advertising is this??? You rope us in by promising exactly what we all have been asking for, and then you don’t deliver. (Excalibur #17 – Dec 1989)

[gaknar]

I’m not even going to bother doing any other posts from this comic, because this INCREDIBLY lazy conclusion lies at the end of it. Right before this, almost everyone is killed by some stupid no-name assassin, and then Kitty just tells us “well Phoenix brought us all back to life and then we all went to the greatest party in the history of the universe. Happy ending!” God damn it. This Cross Time Caper is going absolutely nowhere, and it reminds me a lot of Claremont’s later work on X-Men in the mid 2000s. There seems to be no grand story arc he’s working toward here, there are no memorable characters introduced, and everyone else just seems to be going through the motions. Talk about phoning it in. There is this weird bit at the very end here, where Excalibur almost encounters Professor X and the Starjammers.

This same sort of thing happened at the end of X-Factor’s recent space adventure, where they narrowly missed meeting up with the Professor. I wonder why they keep teasing this. And I wonder why Charles isn’t sick anymore. (Excalibur #17 – Dec 1989)

[gaknar]

In this comic, Excalibur finally has their first confrontation with Brian’s brother Jamie Braddock while on this weird Speed Racer looking planet. As the story progresses, the characters become more and more cartoony looking, and this phenomena is acknowledged but not explained. By the end of it, Jamie wipes the floor with both Captain Britain and Kitty, and then he walks off with Lockheed and Widget.

(Excalibur #18 – Jan 1990)