My first Excalibur book, a title that I've never really care about before, and I gotta say I was quite happy with it, I thought the choice of characters was a bit weird at first, but I'm really digging this new adult version of Gambit, Rogue, and Jubilee, they're finally growing up. Kinda feels like Nightcrawler and Pixie should've been here as well, Rictor was a cool surprise though, his issue was my favorite, the new costume and the new way he using his powers is pretty awesome, curious to see...

The two weakest titles from issue 1's I read for the new dawn title were Excalibur and Fallen Angels. Now that they are fully done with arc 1, what did I think? Well...Excalibur tells a story of Captain Britain as she is at war. But the thing is goes from more fantasy setting to everyday setting with a cast of characters ranging from Rogue, Jubilee, Gambit, and more. It's a jumpy story and I feel if you are fans of Captain Britain or most of these characters you might get more out of the fantasy...

Spinning out of the recent House of X/Powers of X, this series explores the dilemmas of the Otherworld as Captain Britain becomes the center of attention. While Rogue, Gambit, Rictor, and Jubilee work together, whether they want to or not, to stop the incoming threat from the Otherworld, Apocalypse (and his fascination for his new and unreadable name) enters the scene with a mysterious plan amidst the rise of the mutants' new home: Krakoa.There's something original and interesting to this series...

Main storyline is a chaotic fantasy mess with a team rooster far from being an interesting one for me besides Betsy, but I just loved her interactions here with the other two Braddock brothers and she really deserved to take up again the mantle of Captain Britain after her first try ended so badly with Slaymaster gouging her eyes in epic Captain Britain (vol 2) #13 from classic Alan Davis run.Probably I had to read lots of stories about Betsy having back her old body, Rogue touching people witho...

Probably my second favourite non-X-Men Dawn Of X book. That's an ungainly sentence. But you know what I mean. Excalibur does well in establishing itself as a very separate book to the rest of the line with its focus on Otherworld and the magical side of the X-Men, which isn't something that's often acknowledged when there are fewer X-Books floating around. The character dynamic takes a little getting used to, especially since everyone seems to shout at Apocalypse and then do what he wants them t...

Well done but I've just never been much of a fan of Excalibur.

i'm not gonna pretend to understand anything about captain britain or the otherworld but, hey, rictor was there and rogue and gambit were being married cat parents.

This was a real dud. It doesn't have much to do with the other Dawn of X books, mostly taking place in Great Britain and Otherworld. The writing is really choppy. A lot occurs between issues of the book and we're just given a text page to explain it. The jump between issues 5 and 6 was particularly bad. We went from no war at all to the end of the war between the new Captain Britain and Morgan Le Fay. Basically I don't care about Otherworld, I don't care about how the characters in the book are

It's Jonathan Hickman's Dawn of X Vol. 1 mutant revolution of a world, and Excalibur has Gambit & Rogue, Jubilee and baby Shogo, Rictor, Captain Britain, Betsy Braddock Apocalypse(!), surely a winner? Not at all, so very far from it. The stellar cast seems to have led to minuscule plot and character development for the team here supposedly to oversee mutantkind's mastery over magic. And... I ask and pray, why is the European based-team full of Americans, in a world of 1,000s of mutants! 2 out of...

This is possibly the weakest book since Dawn of X came out, not counting the obvious dumpster fire that was Fallen Angels.Tini Howard has a huge problem with pacing. The story lurches forward between issues, glossing over major events, while other times the story spends too much time focusing on pedantic details. We have to deal with alternate realities that are not clearly spelled out for the reader, or that take away screen time from the actual events and characters we are supposed to care abo...

I don't object to the use of Otherworld. It's a deep part of mutant lore thanks to the Chris Claremont / Captain Britain connection. What I do object to in this comic is that fact that it's kind of boring — and that can be an issue with mystical, esoteric Otherworld plots: they often don't connect to the reader, as was also the case with Rick Remender's Otherworld arc, in what was otherwise a great run at Uncanny X-Force.The biggest problem here is that the characters are just puppets to the plo...

Of all the Dawn of X relaunch titles, this was the one I found least interesting from the start. I've never read the classic Exacalibur series (outside of a few event crossover issues), but this iteration of the team has some of my favorite X-Men characters, and I was very curious about how Apocalypse was going to fit into this team, so I thought I'd give it a try. I don't regret doing so, but my favorite X-Man character Rogue spent at least 75% of this story in a coma, Gambit is entirely focuse...

Yet another X-dud. Very remotely connected to the X-World (Excalibur->Otherworld), with a cast of misfits without any real connection between them, let alone Otherworld (Rogue, Gambit, Jubilee, Rictor, Apocalypse... looks like they were randomly pick from a list). There’s no team spirit to speak of and no real character development (with the exception of Rogue, a bit). The plot is not exceedingly coherent and at the very least poorly told with huge holes between issues and so muddy stakes and un...

tbh i'm just here for rogue and gambit. also i'm so mad because they missed a perfect opportunity to name this x-calibur like cmon

Originally conceived by Chris Claremont and Alan Davis in 1987 as a usually-UK-based offshoot of the X-Men, Excalibur deals with the intersection of magic and science in the new mutant world order of Krakoa. As the Otherworld is rocked by war while Morgan le Fay is determined to terminate the mutants to rule Camelot, Apocalypse (now a member of the X-Men nation) and the new Captain Britain (a mantle now carried by Betsy Braddock, formerly Psylocke) lead a team against le Fey’s army of witches.Pl...

I've never read a Marvel comic featuring Captain Britain or the "Otherworld," so I was a bit baffled by Excalibur at the outset. It certainly drops you into the deep end, barely introducing the Braddock family and showing us an Otherworld at war with Morgan Le Fay at the helm. At least I'd read House of X/Powers of X, so the Krakoan portals and Apocalypse drama were familiar.After a few issues, events and characters started to click into place. Excalibur is relatively self-contained, with Betsy

3.5🌟The 'otherworld' lore, and some of Psyloche as I've always known her AKA Betsy Brock and family are unfamiliar to me. Rather having fun learning their story I was fairly bored. There are some decent character interactions and the overall plot of the volume came full circle. I will likely pick up volume 2 and hope Excalibur can grow on me a little.

3.5 starsTo me, this seems like the magical version of the X-Force. Not quite as good as X-Force, but that may be because I have very little knowledge of the original Excalibur team, or how this whole Captain Britain thing works. Also, I tend to associate Morgan Le Fay with DC's mystic teams. Which is silly, but there you go. And I'm not really sure why Jubilee is on the team. Is she magical? No idea. She has sparkle fingers, so maybe that counts? Whatever. I am super curious to find out the dea...

This is definitely my favourite of the new re-launched X-books. I’m a huge Captain Britain/Psylocke/Excalibur fan, though, so I may be a little biased.I loved all the Captain Britain/Otherworld stuff (although somebody should tell Tini Howard it’s not ‘The Otherworld’, it’s just ‘Otherworld’), it was great to see Rictor again, and if the book hadn’t been bogged down with all the Hickman-reboot claptrap, this would have probably been a 5 star book for me.Actually, the plot got a little messy in p...

I am not impressed if anything a bit disappointed. I got this as it had two of my favourite X-Men/People in it, Gambit and Psylocke. Gambit did not really get a chance to do much in this book, and Psylocke is actually Betsy Braddock half since the split. At first I was quite annoyed by Betsy lack of fighting skills but that actually make perfect sense, since her assassin's half is not here. Though book and action was so confusing I would not have noticed this unless I was looking for it. Yes I w...