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Excalibur #10 Brings Us A Very Different London – Or Does It?

It's been a while since the last Excalibur. Set before the recent events in Marauders (presumably) it has seen the new team let by a Betsy Braddock Captain Britain heading to Otherworld, by way of Apocalypse, and with Betsy's brother and prominent Krakoan Jamie Braddock take Morgan La Fay's position on the throne, in opposition to Saturnyne at the Citadel as everyone seems to be playing fast and loose with reality.

Introduced without powers in the Captain Britain Weekly in the seventies, Jamie Braddock was reintroduced by Chris Claremont and Alan Davis in the first Excalibur series. He was used as a replacement character for Sir James Jaspers, the reality-warping mutant created for Captain Britain by Dave Thorpe, Alan Moore and Alan Davis. Marvel Comics US had been denied the use of Jaspers, as well as the Special Executive and The Fury, due to Moore's contracts with Marvel UK. Indeed, over in Uncanny X-Men, plans for the use of The Fury had been replaced with future Sentinel, Nimrod. Also in Excalibur, the Special Executive removed from the Technet.

I mention this today, because even though deals were done and Marvel got the rights to use the likes of The Fury again, they still have Jamie Braddock. And his current reality-warping reminds me more and more of how Dave Thorpe, Alan Moore and Alan Davis created a parallel London using Sir James Jaspers – it was this reality that Thorpe originally dubbed Earth 616 before Alan Moore would use that number to signify the Marvel Universe after the Jaspers reality was destroyed.

Opening the new Excalibur gives us a very different London – or does it?

Excalibur #10 Brings Us A Very Different London - Or Does It?
Excalibur #10 Brings Us A Very Different London – Or Does It?

Which is somewhere between World War II, War Of The Worlds and the Jaspers Warp. With soldiers on the streets taking down any and all mutant threats.

Excalibur #10 Brings Us A Very Different London - Or Does It?
Excalibur #10 Brings Us A Very Different London – Or Does It?

And giving me a flashback directly to The Mighty World Of Marvel, picked up off the newsagent stands.

Excalibur #10 Brings Us A Very Different London – Or Does It?

The campaigns of a reality-warping Sir James Jaspers.

Excalibur #10 Brings Us A Very Different London – Or Does It?

And the world delivered when Sir James Jaspers of another world did it all again.

Excalibur #10 Brings Us A Very Different London – Or Does It?

As the London Excalibur is also starting to burn its effigies.

Excalibur #10 Brings Us A Very Different London – Or Does It?

Is this where this will end up?

Excalibur #10 Brings Us A Very Different London - Or Does It?
Excalibur #10 Brings Us A Very Different London – Or Does It?

All part of the plans of a reality-warping psychopath…

Excalibur #10 Brings Us A Very Different London - Or Does It?
Excalibur #10 Brings Us A Very Different London – Or Does It?

With more realities to come… and a political reality that, as ever is based on our worst impulses, impulses that seem to be right back in the news headlines.

EXCALIBUR #10
(W) Tini Howard (A) Marcus To (CA) Mahmud Asrar
LONDON IS BURNING!
Captain Britain is faced with her hardest decision yet as Britain goes to war with Krakoa. Can Excalibur survive being torn between two worlds?
Rated T+In Shops: Jun 10, 2020 SRP: $3.99

 


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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