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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#1

July, 2004
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16 copies available from $0.99 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
#1 (Newsstand Edition by Andy Park)

July, 2004
Cover Price: $2.99
1 copy available for $9.99 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
#2 (Cover by Andy Park)

August, 2004
Cover Price: $2.99
10 copies available from $0.65 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
#2 (Newsstand Edition by Andy Park)

August, 2004
Cover Price: $2.99
1 copy available for $9.99 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
#3

September, 2004
Cover Price: $2.99
19 copies available from $0.75 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
#3 (Newsstand Edition by Andy Park)

September, 2004
Cover Price: $2.99
1 copy available for $9.99 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
#4 (Cover by Andy Park)

October, 2004
Cover Price: $2.99
11 copies available from $0.75 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
#5

November, 2004
Cover Price: $2.99
10 copies available from $0.65 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
#5 (Newsstand Edition by Andy Park)

November, 2004
Cover Price: $2.99
1 copy available for $34.99 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
#6 (Cover by Andy Park)

December, 2004
Cover Price: $2.99
8 copies available from $0.99 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
#6 (Newsstand Edition by Andy Park)

December, 2004
Cover Price: $2.99
1 copy available for $34.99 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
#7 (Cover by Andy Park)

January, 2005
Cover Price: $2.99
13 copies available from $1.00 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
#7 (Newsstand Edition by Andy Park)

January, 2005
Cover Price: $2.99
1 copy available for $34.99 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
#8

February, 2005
Cover Price: $2.99
11 copies available from $0.88 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
#8 (Newsstand Edition by Aaron Lopresti)

February, 2005
Cover Price: $2.99
1 copy available for $9.99 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
#9

March, 2005
Cover Price: $2.99
8 copies available from $1.49 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
#10

April, 2005
Cover Price: $2.99
11 copies available from $0.99 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
#11

May, 2005
Cover Price: $2.99
4 copies available from $2.50 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
#11 (Newsstand Edition by Aaron Lopresti)

May, 2005
Cover Price: $2.99
1 copy available for $44.99 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
#12

June, 2005
Cover Price: $2.99
7 copies available from $2.75 		Chris ClaremontCliff Richards
#13

July, 2005
Cover Price: $2.99
22 copies available from $0.75 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
#14

July, 2005
Cover Price: $2.99
18 copies available from $0.60 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti
Book #1


Cover Price: $9.99
1 copy available for $7.50 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti, Greg Adams
Book #2


Cover Price: $14.99
1 copy available for $11.50 		Chris ClaremontAaron Lopresti