After a week of working on my Rob Liefeld NEW MUTANTS / X - FORCE tribute post it is time to take a break so we are returning to one of my favourite series in the entire Marvel Comics mutant universe, the sadly very underrated and underappreciated EXCALIBUR written by Chris Claremont - of course - and drawn by the incomparable Alan Davis .
At least during Alan Davis first tenure on the book, later on Alan Davis assumed the writing duties and that would have been our starting point for this post but - as usual - while doing the research I came upon a few pages of original Alan Davis artwork that should have been included in my first two posts of this series AFTER finishing that part of the post.
Now the reason why I mentioned my Rob Liefeld spotlight is that like so many other posts the genesis of this one lies in a previous post. While writing the post I - naturally - mentioned EXCALIBUR as one of the many mutant - centric comicbooks Chris Claremont wrote during his 16 ( !!! ) year tenure on UNCANNY X - MEN and while looking for an original Alan Davis EXCALIBUR page to add to the post I realized how many pages I still hadn't posted. Well, if you have read the Rob Liefeld post you know that I did not include a page from EXCALIBUR ( which probably would have sold 100 times as much if they would have called the series X - CALIBUR ) because I decided to save those pages to continue this series. And since I have - almost - checked all the necessary boxes for the videos which I include in the comicbook trivia / cult siren section plus extras ( like the full movie BEVERLY HILLS COP although I reckon it won't last long ) on the Rob Liefeld post I thought why not continue the mutant motif a bit and see if we can't turn November into a full blown MUTANT MONTH.
As longtime followers of the blog know my two previous posts are not the first posts I did on EXCALIBUR. I already did three posts on the series - as well as two more about some of the other books he did - but since I had lost my entire picture archive ( twice ! ) and I came across a lot of pages by Alan Davis from EXCALIBUR I decided to start again from zero.
Also back then I used a lot of pages with a very low quality which would not make the cut Today so that even if I reposted a page the new version has a superior quality which for me counts as posting a brand new page.
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