Dropping a link to the full Paul O'Brien review that quote is from, in case anyone is interested. I think O'Brien is on the money, pointing out some of the same sticky issues that Alexandra Iciek did back in March of last year.

I don't think any of that means Excalibur is a bad book, but Howard isn't writing with a particularly deft hand and it gets back to my big problem with this era as a whole: exceptions vs execution. So much was made of Krakoa as a big, bold experiment, mutants by way of political hard sci-fi, and then the actual books are just sort of standard, largely uncritical superhero fare and it's difficult not to feel as though readers have been sold a bill of goods.