Excalibur #10: "Verse X: A Crooked World"

[superboyprime]

Comments

[cainofdreaming]

It's almost like handing out coronations to literal madmen wasn't maybe the smartest idea.

[thediiem]

I was under the impression that his Krakoan resurrection cured Jamie of his insanity. He is remains, however, an old-money, male British aristocrat - though only recently crowned as the king of an *olde worlde* medieval magical fantasy realm - fundamentally views reality as something malleable that shapes to his will and desires. On the good days it's about as divine right of kings / benevolent tyrant as you can get. I don't think he's insane here. I suspect that as he said, he's rebuilding the multiversal Captain Britain Corps, in the most expedient way someone who can instantly create alternate realities can. And he's a king now, so his decision to quick-grow a fresh crop of dedicated Overworld defenders to preserve Overworld, and its reflections across Great Britain, are justified along those lines. He can even claim he really doesn't have to feel bad about killing his sister here, since she made herself real - Jamie can rationalize that he gave her an out that Betsy just didn't choose by just continuing to exist and trying to make sense of a crazy situation instead of seeing the madness for the trees and rejecting reality wholesale. Not a fair rationalization, but he never really played fair before.

[bruinsfan]

If this story had happened before the X-Men/Fantastic Four miniseries it would have gone a long way toward explaining why Xavier and Magneto were so eager to get Franklin Richards to the island.

[cainofdreaming]

They say it did that, but I'm not so sure if it worked wholly. Also when "crooked" appears in Captain Britain related stuff it's never good.

[neverwherehere]

"When did this happen?"

It happened when a persecuted minority made a members-only club and the majority, who were used to calling the shots and excluding whomever they wanted, had a meltdown over getting a taste of their own medicine for once in their entitled lives.

[shadowpsykie]

honestly... i love this explanation....

[john_wyatt]

A lot of Tini Howard's Excalibur run has been incomprehensible to me. I read this issue the day it came out, and it wasn't until I read an annotated review of it that I realized the entire issue took place with alternate versions of characters in alternate realities. The previous issue issue ended on a cliffhanger which which wasn't picked up until #12. X of Swords: Creation made sense of a lot that happened in Excalibur, but there are so many things that I don't have a handle on.