Excalibur #62

[suzene]

Title: Excalibur #62 - "Of Birth, Death, and the Confused, Painful Bit In Between" (1993, Marvel, 22 pages)
Creators: Alan Davis (writing and art)
Availability: Out of Print (at least until Excalibur Visionaries: Alan Davis v.3 hits)

In the course of investigating strange happenings at St. Oswald's church, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and Cerise are ambushed by a group of strange individuals calling themselves the Seraphim. Rather than actually get beaten down, Kurt plays 'possum and allows himself to be taken to the Seraphim's base.













Almost two decades later, and that last page is still twenty different kinds of "Hell yeah!" But I do tend to have a soft spot for righteous "my powers were only holding me back" thumpings.

Comments

[crinos]

Is that.... a talking Peanut?

Oh my God, Mr. Peanut has super villain ties!

[nezchan]

That's how he made his fortune.

[icon_uk]

In a wonderfully British reveal, we discover that the assorted Warpies (Which is what all these beings are) were given codenames but quickly ran out of "cool" sounding ones and ended up givign them all names which described them in either animal vegetable or mineral terms, hence we had Peanut, Pumice, Cabbage and others.

Of course the story ended fairly happily with the Warpies reverting to human as the last of the energy which created them faded out. And then IIRC Ellis revealed they'd all been dissected by Black Air, his latest Black Ops Government agency.

[okkult3000]

"And then IIRC Ellis revealed they'd all been dissected by Black Air, his latest Black Ops Government agency."

Oh, Nineties, you scamp! What WILL we do with you?

[punishermax]

~Mr. Peanut twirls cane and adjusts monocle~

"Ho ho, you motherfuckers are truly going to be doomed! I suppose the question now is

~dramatically raises cane and tips tophat with a nightmarish grin~

Shall you be Chunky or Creamy?"

[pallas_athena]

I'd read it.