Calmness Personified
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Don't worry, this is a superhero comic book so of course they fight later on.
Although you have to cut Brian some slack, he did put up with a lot of stuff before he went berserk; I don't know I'd react if an alien blew up my bathroom. Now that I think about it, Excalibur seems like Marvel's answer to Giffen/DeMatteis' JLI, a humorous look at the things that could go wrong if you were a superhero.
(from Excalibur #43)
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Date: 2013-02-08 11:15 pm (UTC)And Alan Davis always drawshis sexy with the sexy turned up to 11!
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Date: 2013-02-08 11:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-09 07:22 am (UTC)*Was*?
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Date: 2013-02-09 10:22 pm (UTC)...Nope. Don't see it.
(If anything, I find Davis' "problem" to be just the opposite. I'm amazed at how little his style has changed over the decades; there's been very little evolution to his style. I'm not bothered by it, because he's settled on a great style, but he's definitely settled.)
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Date: 2013-02-08 11:19 pm (UTC)And was Brian still under his curse during this? If I recall correctly wasn't it basically retconned that he'd been cursed with...well, basically buffoonery that was then exacerbated by a drinking problem?
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Date: 2013-02-09 09:38 am (UTC)*Edit*...or maybe the de-cursing happened on Otherworld earlier? I too would have to look in your copies!
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Date: 2013-02-09 09:09 am (UTC)In fairness, when he attacked Kurt, he'd just smashed headfirst into a pile of machinery, which had him half-stunned and probably messed with his judgment a little.
Also in fairness, if this was the regular X-Men, teammates beating the crap out of each other would be Tuesday. Brian's punchiness stood out here largely because Excalibur usually talked through their interpersonal problems like normal people.
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Date: 2013-02-09 03:19 am (UTC)The next issue has this great mulit-page fight scene of Brian cutting loose and fighting a horde of unusual and visually interesting Captains. I believe that this run was my favorite run of any non-miniseries comic ever.
When Alan is at the top of the game, when he loves and knows the characters, there's no better writer-artist in my opinion.
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Date: 2013-02-11 10:00 pm (UTC)JLA: THE NAIL, an Elseworlds mini-series really shows off his gift for tight plotting. It's really impressive how the various plot elements all come together in the end.
And his KILLRAVEN mini-series is also top stuff. While it starts off your typical post-apocalyptic sci-fi, it soon goes in some interesting, less predictable directions.
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Date: 2013-02-09 04:15 am (UTC)IIRC...
Date: 2013-02-09 06:27 am (UTC)To put it another way: Imagine Superman lived in a world where Metropolis was the only place with yellow sunlight. Everywhere else is red. That's Meggan.
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Date: 2013-02-09 11:36 pm (UTC)Meggan is, at times and deoending on who is writing her, a creature of magic of some sort. Think of it like mains voltage, it's quite possible she can access compatible magic in Hel or Limbo, but not in the USA. :)
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Date: 2013-02-09 10:58 pm (UTC)"Being hit by either of them is like having a chest freezer dropped on your brain. To be hit by both at the same time is like being punched in the face by God".
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