Excalibur was one of those comics that was only released in specialty shops, so I never was able to catch the series when it was first released. Still, I was a fan of Captain Britain and the artwork of Alan Davis, so I made sure to seek out some issues later on. It was an odd comic, with a lot more inventive story lines than I found in the other X-titles. Even when it got too weird, the appealing cast of characters included won me over.
Camelot 3000 and Excalibur...you have captured two of my favorite titles. And they're a perfect fit. In the words of Wayne and Garth bowing to Alice Cooper, "We're not worthy. We're not worthy." Just awesome, man. Just awesone.
ReplyDeleteMore inventive than Sir Galahad reincarnated as a 31st-century samurai...or Sir Tristan as a lesbian?!
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Just two cents in, but Morgan le Fay wears a very sexy two-piece outfit in the Camelot 3000. XD ;0
ReplyDeleteDefinitely more alluring than that Morticia Addams knock-off with the Psycho-Pirate mask. ;-)
ReplyDeleteThis has, generally speaking, been my favorite of Shadowcat's costumes. The collar and puffy sleeves just scream 80s, of course, but it seems to have weathered the decades surprisingly well.
ReplyDeleteAnd... could we ever see a cover where Mars Attacks Camelot 3000?
@Anon & Cary: I think it might be fun to see the Marvel and main DC Morgans (who I think have met on this blog) make contact with the Camelot 3000 version. Hey -- they could start the Council of Morgans! (How many comics adaptations of the character have there been, anyway?)
@Bob Greenwade: Maybe the "Council of Morgans" could meet Magica de Spell (whose name was probably inspired by King Arthur's Morgana).
ReplyDeleteExcalibur may have become a specialty shop only comic but it started out on the newsstands because that is where I got it. The same for Wolverine series.
ReplyDeleteI agree Carycomic that such twists added to series did not help and as someone who had worked part time in comic speciality store it did not help sales but had some readers drop it mid series.
ReplyDeleteI love the Brian Bolland work and was in one shop and they had a beautiful signed framed cover of his which was colored I believe by his wife.
@Aonyous1149: I'd rather see Camelot 3000 meet the Silver Age GOTG. To ward off an alliance between the Badoon and whatever-the-aliens-menacing-31st-century-Britain-were-called!
ReplyDeleteCamelot 3000 and some members of LSH would also make sense. Princess Projecta came from a medieval world.
ReplyDeleteExcaliber appeared monthly on the newsstand at my corner Cards & Gifts Shop in Queens, NY. Distribution was really weird in the 1990s, because if you were lucky some specialty comics and graphic novels found there way in the unlikeliest of places: Barnes & Noble or B Daltons in the mall, certain corner drug stores or gas stations, or even the magazine section of Pathmark or Shop Rite!?!
ReplyDeleteI bought my copies at the aptly-named "Little Book Shop." Which, at that time, sold comic books, in general, for a "whopping" twenty-seven cents (including sales tax)!
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