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scans_dailyThis comic has cheered me up this week, so I thought I'd share.
If you're new to Excalibur, check out this excellent intro post. I think, though, that most of us are familiar with this joyously cracktacular romp across the '80s. This issue is from the period when Alan Davis was both writing and drawing, and it resolves the "Nightcrawler loves Meggan" subplot that had been smouldering since issue 1. But the thing I love most about this comic is that it answers the question: What does an exploding toilet sound like if you're Alan Davis?
Of course it does.
We open with a spot of exercise:
But they get interrupted by a blithely innocent Meggan who swoops in to give Brian a good-morning kiss, and he stomps off downstairs to read his book.
At this point, however, Excalibur are sharing the lighthouse with former foes the Technet, and it's not going well. They crash Kitty's computer, eat her teddy bear, explode the toilet (see above), and helpfully install a "null-gravity elevator" that causes Brian to smash into the ceiling in mid-flight.
When the dust clears, this is the first thing he sees:
After some demurrals on Nightcrawler's part, it is determined that IT IS INDEED ON.
Nightcrawler lands roughly on some rocks, breaking his leg. Meggan intervenes to stop the fight, making the excellent point that "I'm not a thing-- no one can own me."
"... for anything you say may be taken down and used against you!"
And with that, Brian is placed under arrest and whisked off to another dimension to stand trial before the Captains Britain of all the other worlds and... I don't even know. Excalibur! Hurrah!
If you're new to Excalibur, check out this excellent intro post. I think, though, that most of us are familiar with this joyously cracktacular romp across the '80s. This issue is from the period when Alan Davis was both writing and drawing, and it resolves the "Nightcrawler loves Meggan" subplot that had been smouldering since issue 1. But the thing I love most about this comic is that it answers the question: What does an exploding toilet sound like if you're Alan Davis?
Of course it does.
We open with a spot of exercise:
But they get interrupted by a blithely innocent Meggan who swoops in to give Brian a good-morning kiss, and he stomps off downstairs to read his book.
At this point, however, Excalibur are sharing the lighthouse with former foes the Technet, and it's not going well. They crash Kitty's computer, eat her teddy bear, explode the toilet (see above), and helpfully install a "null-gravity elevator" that causes Brian to smash into the ceiling in mid-flight.
When the dust clears, this is the first thing he sees:
After some demurrals on Nightcrawler's part, it is determined that IT IS INDEED ON.
Nightcrawler lands roughly on some rocks, breaking his leg. Meggan intervenes to stop the fight, making the excellent point that "I'm not a thing-- no one can own me."
"... for anything you say may be taken down and used against you!"
And with that, Brian is placed under arrest and whisked off to another dimension to stand trial before the Captains Britain of all the other worlds and... I don't even know. Excalibur! Hurrah!
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Date: 2011-01-05 02:01 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-01-05 02:57 am (UTC)And he draws the finest goddamn Nightcrawler I ever did see.
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Date: 2011-01-05 06:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-05 03:02 am (UTC)...narcissistic?
Also, Rachel? Love you, but this is your worst hair ever. Alan Davis actually made the rat-tail work, but nothing could save the fire-mullet.
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Date: 2011-01-05 03:11 am (UTC)Then again I'm optimistic and love Nightcrawler.
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Date: 2011-01-05 08:59 pm (UTC)nope.avi
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Date: 2011-01-05 08:33 am (UTC)And the art, hell yeah!
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Date: 2011-01-05 07:59 am (UTC)And eventually I was lucky enough to marry someone who looked exactly like her. Weird.
Anyways, I love this era's Brian Braddock. The way they treated his anger and alcohol issues as a disease--his friends understood, but they never excused. He seems like the template for what later writers wanted to do with Hank Pym.
Also Alan Davis' Nightcrawler is so David Bowie.
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Date: 2011-01-05 08:41 am (UTC)Congratulations to you and your Shadowspouse!
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Date: 2011-01-05 08:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-05 08:55 am (UTC)(Roll on Vol. 3 of Davis's run!)
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Date: 2011-01-05 06:11 pm (UTC)(Later in the issue you can see that the book is entitled "Philosophic Foundations of Quantum Mechanics" by Hans Reichenbach. I Googled this, and it's a real book!)
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Date: 2011-01-05 11:18 am (UTC)ALSO, that art is the epitome of great anatomy with amazing poses. I think the gymnastics dream bit was just showing off, or self-indulgence, just to show HOW DANG GOOD the artist is.
C: Man, wish I could draw like that.
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Date: 2011-01-05 06:20 pm (UTC)The world in general would be a lovelier place if Alan Davis drew it.
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Date: 2011-01-05 09:02 pm (UTC)There are a lot of trade collections. Volumes 1 and 3 of "Excalibur Classic" (Claremont's run, with art by Davis) are my favourites. Then there are the 2 volumes of "Excalibur Visionaries: Alan Davis," which are solidly good; this post is taken from Volume 1 of those.
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Date: 2011-01-05 08:52 pm (UTC)Uh what the hell did Kurt do beyond have a dream and try to not get killed?
Granted dreaming and not wanting to die are typical traits of most men but I've never viewed them as negative before. o_0
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Date: 2011-01-05 09:27 pm (UTC)A case could, theoretically, be made that having testosterone-fuelled dreams about doing sexy gymnastics with someone else's hot mostly-naked girlfriend is a "men" thing.
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Date: 2011-01-06 01:39 am (UTC)Is Kurt's like-himself dreamgirl has five fingers on each hand.
Like, that's what he gets all normative about?
Did he always want to date a blue, pointy-eared gal who could... also play the piano?
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Date: 2012-01-23 01:09 am (UTC)The dream represents something that could theoretically happen in Kurt's reality.
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Date: 2011-01-06 05:13 am (UTC)Wonderful, crazy stuff.
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