Excalibur (2nd Series)

    (Marvel, 2004-2005)
™ and © 2004 Marvel Characters, Inc.

Does Marvel publish too many X-Men titles? My gut answer would be “probably.” However, I’ll always give the benefit of the doubt to any new X-Men title that comes at Marvel’s mutants from a different standpoint.

Charles Xavier has come to the devastated island-nation of Genosha, once a place of hope that “baseline” humans and mutant humans could live and work and thrive as one people. He has come with the most noble intention: to help its people to the best of his considerable ability. This first issue sets up the basic situations, introduces a few characters, and ends on one heck of a surprise.

Chris Claremont does an outstanding job setting the scene and the mood. Despite not having read the comics that chronicled the attack on Genosha, I felt completely in the loop. Additionally, he lightened the understandable grimness of the title’s reality with a clever, honestly amusing encounter between Unus the Untouchable and a young mutant called Freakshow.

Aaron Lopresti’s pencils were decent from a storytelling outlook, but his figures could have been more dynamic and natural and less “pose-y.”

— Tony Isabella
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    Jul 2004
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