Excalibur Special Edition (1988) “The Sword is Drawn”
Written by Chris Claremont, Illustrated by Alan Davis, Paul Neary, and Mark Farmer
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Nightcrawler doesn’t give a shit how sad you are, Brian, you still almost hit your girlfriend.
I’m sure he gets better but like, “processing grief by getting drunk and being abusive” is not a good way to introduce one of your leads. And Meggan is such a cinnamon roll like fuck you man.
Anyway Kurt drinks way too much Respect Women Juice to let any of that fly.
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Meet Hard Boiled Henwy! Scourge of all!
So in another post, I made reference to hard Boiled Henwy, and was asked for an explanation by @thefingerfuckingfemalefury ... Which is a reasonable. request.
Back in the 90's, the Britain based x-book Excalibur had sort of fallen into an unsatisfying langour.
After the gleeful insanity of the early Chris Claremont written, Alan Davis pencilled romps involving the Warwolves, the Crazy Gang and the Cross Time Caper (Even if that DID go on too long). Davis left after 17 issues, and Claremont after 27 issues, and no one seemed to quite know how to deal with a team which wasn't the usual X-Men fare.
So, in issue 42, Alan Davis returned as artist AND writer and the series reached new heights, as Davis did know how to deal with them and had no problem embracing the weird and just plain comsically silly!
It's hard to think of a better exemplar than this, the cover of Davis' first issue
And worry not, we are soon to meet this agent of doom! And even witness his creation!
Because Davis immediately returns to one of the most outlandish teams introduced in the title: The Technet!
The Technet are a VERY long story in and of themselves (Involving Alan Moore, Alan Davis, Doctor Who Weekly, and Captain Britain), but they are summarised in the first panel, so don't worr about it.
Just know that Gatecrasher is the large lady who leads this motley team, and she has a grudge against the Excalibur team, and has a capture contract on Phoenix to deliver.
So we cut to the Excalibur team having breakfast in their lighthouse home (and base of operations) which is going normally, until Meggan tries to boil an egg.
What horror could emerge? What unspeakable nightmare lurks within this calcium cage?
If you guessed a psychopathic, genetically engineered, self-destructing Tweety Bird, congratulations!
Now, whilst Henwy is something of a one shot wonder (literally) fret not, because Gatecrasher can, and has, made others in the years since, all called Hard Boiled Henwy because why change a winning formula?
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These are all the characters I could think of with Ph.D.s or who are otherwise researchers. If you have propaganda, feel free to add it.
For anyone who doesn't know what an Erdős Number is:
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Betsy Braddock: Captain Britain #3 - "The Captain We Deserve" (2023)
written by Tini Howard
art by Vasco Georgiev & Erick Arciniega
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