tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post1258767921214666776..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining Excalibur #49Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-33797117063255595052016-08-27T09:07:48.532-05:002016-08-27T09:07:48.532-05:00// Nah, Blam is right to chide me //
Nah, I reall...<br><i>// Nah, Blam is right to chide me //</i><br /><br />Nah, I really wasn’t, because — even if Davis returning to writer/penciller mode in a while means #50 isn’t (ultimately…) the end of his “solo” duties on the series — I misidentified your usage as incorrect when at best, had I been more attentive to future credits, I should’ve noted what you point out here.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-91321190177490856432016-08-25T12:51:47.000-05:002016-08-25T12:51:47.000-05:00We apologize again for the fault in the comments. ...<i>We apologize again for the fault in the comments. Those responsible for correcting the people who have just been corrected have been corrected.</i>Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-46898565746258764902016-08-24T00:09:02.132-05:002016-08-24T00:09:02.132-05:00I don't think MU got DAREDEVILS, but from the ...I don't think MU got DAREDEVILS, but from the Comic Book Database listing at ( http://comicbookdb.com/character_chron.php?ID=1596 ) MU seems to have MARVEL SUPER HEROES (1979) #377-388 and the CAPTAIN BRITAIN (1985) series.<br /><br />Apparently CAPTAIN BRITAIN HC (2011) #1 and #2 prints all/most of the earlier stuff.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-40635627076723409572016-08-23T15:19:13.749-05:002016-08-23T15:19:13.749-05:00I did that pop up on Amazon a couple weeks back, b...I did that pop up on Amazon a couple weeks back, but I hadn't seen the contents. I have the two hardcover volumes Marvel released a few years ago collecting his oldest stuff, and an even older trade collecting some of the Moore/Davis stuff. <br /><br />But that's why I'd like a comprehensive, chronological reprinting of his series, just because it seems like so many collections are missing issues or otherwise incomplete, and then due to vagaries of Marvel UK's publishing, he hops around a bunch of series, few of which have "Captain Britain" in the title, so it's even hard to track his appearances issue-by-issue sometimes (I know Marvel Unlimited has some of the UK stuff up - like his appearances in DAREDEVILS, I believe, but I have no idea if that's everything or if they have other series he was in, etc.). <br /><br />Basically, if his pre-EXCALIBUR stuff was just, like, CAPTAIN BRITAIN #1-300 or something, it'd be a lot easier. Since it's not, a nice curated collection of all his appearances would be nice. :) /whining Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-64453290538408889402016-08-23T14:57:07.014-05:002016-08-23T14:57:07.014-05:00Well, it's not an Epic Collection, but you may...Well, it's not an Epic Collection, but you may be interested in this: <a href="http://amzn.to/2bfW5gV" rel="nofollow">CAPTAIN BRITAIN: LEGACY OF A LEGEND</a>. I found some contents elsewhere on the web and it looks like it will feature a large smattering of Cap stories, jumping around from his origin to the MARVEL TEAM-UP two-parter to his partnership with the Black Knight to the Moore/Davis "Crooked World" and "Jaspers' Warp" sagas. It's not every pre-EXCALIBUR Cap story, but it seems to hit all the highlights. Sadly not all the Davis material is there, though. He had a decent run post-Moore and it looks like only a single issue of that (the final one) is collected in this book. (Also, some of the Moore issues are left out, which is odd.)Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-54852146788692353182016-08-23T09:44:47.030-05:002016-08-23T09:44:47.030-05:00We'll see how it finishes out, but I'm def...We'll see how it finishes out, but I'm definitely liking this more than the initial Claremont/Davis stuff. It's not necessarily a fair comparison - that run was all setup, and it's not the run's fault Claremont left before paying it off - but still, this run has all the pros of the previous one, with none of the cons. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-92082523786437361542016-08-23T09:41:17.540-05:002016-08-23T09:41:17.540-05:00Nah, Blam is right to chide me on my use of penult...Nah, Blam is right to chide me on my use of penultimate here (I knew my fondness for that word would get me in trouble some day!). This isn't the penultimate issue to Davis' run, since even though he takes some issues off from drawing after #50, he'll be back shortly as both writer/artist, and the "to date" modifier that I thought would cover for my usage really doesn't. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-51471079619142155922016-08-23T09:39:20.854-05:002016-08-23T09:39:20.854-05:00Someday I really want to go back and read the full...Someday I really want to go back and read the full run of pre-EXCALIBUR Captain Britain stuff. *cough* Captain Britain Epic Collection, Marvel *cough*. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-15241499981598362842016-08-23T09:38:25.588-05:002016-08-23T09:38:25.588-05:00First of all, welcome, and thanks for reading alon...First of all, welcome, and thanks for reading along! Secondly, I hear you on the over-exposition thing. I think Davis walks a very fine line with that, and there's been a few times he's crossed it, only to be saved by the stellar art. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-25111750029886459392016-08-22T05:51:53.365-05:002016-08-22T05:51:53.365-05:00But on the happy note the word "penultimate&q...But on the happy note the word "penultimate" always reminds me of one of my favorite Monty Python skits where the Pope is less than perfectly pleased to Michelangelo's <i>The Last Supper</i>, and now upon looking it up I learned it awesomely is based on an actual historic precedent where late 16th century painter Paolo Veronese got some canonical heat for his painting on the same subject because there was a nose-bleeding servant, a jester with a parrot(!) and, according to the interrogation notes, "buffoons, drunken Germans, dwarfs, and other such absurdities".<br /><br />They gave him three months to fix the painting. Which he did by changing the name to "The Feast in the House of Levi", also mentioned in the Gospels and explicitly mentioned of having had a less select crowd attending. Your underlining the word, my friend, certainly has not been a waste.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-35868327966799477172016-08-21T18:50:09.153-05:002016-08-21T18:50:09.153-05:00Y'know, I did look up #51 under the assumption...<br>Y'know, I did look up #51 under the assumption that Teebore meant that, but after seeing Davis' name in the credits I wrote what I wrote — not realizing that Davis wasn't penciling after #50; I hereby apologize and retract my supposed correction, which has become a pattern I can't seem to break.<br /><br> <br />Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-12574465504628553822016-08-21T07:13:55.182-05:002016-08-21T07:13:55.182-05:00I understood what is meant is that the following i...I understood what is meant is that the following issue will be the last, i.e. the ultimate of Davis' solo run, as someone else will be assuming penciling duties and it's not solo anymore. As the word is used in its "last but one" meaning for the Necrom story bit, I find it implausible the same word would have been used in any other assumed meaning for the following parenthesed bit.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-47193901561259373592016-08-20T21:01:18.611-05:002016-08-20T21:01:18.611-05:00Still the best X-Men book currently. Polished gorg...Still the best X-Men book currently. Polished gorgeous Alan Davis art, distinct colorful cast of characters, funny yet dramatic storytelling, compelling and coherent plotting. Its actually better than Claremont's run with Davis.Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12219137212221355997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-38295031167551542152016-08-20T15:57:47.873-05:002016-08-20T15:57:47.873-05:00I don’t know that the art’s ever looked better.
...<br>I don’t know that the art’s ever looked better. <br /><br /><i>// The penultimate issue of the Necrom storyline (and, really, Alan Davis' solo run to date) //</i><br /><br />Yes to the first part, which is just a matter of fact, but no to the parenthetical. I think you’re using “penultimate” as “climactic” or “the culmination of…” but whereas “ultimate” has a broader meaning than “final” — as, say, “the best example of…” or “the most concentrated dosage of…” (like the way “ultimate expression” = “focused totality”) or “the purest form of…” — there’s no colloquial, metaphorical definition of “penultimate” that means something is the antecedent to the “ultimate” iteration in a sequence where “ultimate” means anything other than “last”. Sorry to harsh your mellow on a late-summer weekend. 8^)<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-91468001929196994162016-08-20T06:40:39.936-05:002016-08-20T06:40:39.936-05:00"as that story also revealed a not-dead-after..."as that story also revealed a not-dead-after-all Merlin, and Davis clearly wanted to reveal that here."<br /><br />And it works so much better here as well.<br /><br />Good stuff all around. It looks gorgeous, the story moves along nicely, the characters have distinct voices, I like how Davis has tied all the various plot strands together. Really, there isn't much more to add really except that this is arguably, at this point in the X-line, the best title being produced, and a damn good read regardless. wwk5dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-41845472846995930022016-08-19T14:30:05.778-05:002016-08-19T14:30:05.778-05:00I love the Merlyn reveal in this issue. One of my...I love the Merlyn reveal in this issue. One of my favorite moments in Davis's run.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-8412315421608648612016-08-18T15:19:09.380-05:002016-08-18T15:19:09.380-05:00Long story: I just finished a several month long r...Long story: I just finished a several month long re-reading of the Claremont X-Men (including spin-off books, limited series, etc.). I discovered your blog early on and read the old entries in tandem with each issue, which added a lot of behind the scenes info and commentary (thanks!). I never got to comment though, because I was always behind y'all, and you finished the Claremont years before I caught up. But since the Alan Davis Excalibur run is basically the only post-Claremont X run I have any interest in, I decided to also re-read it as a little palate cleanser. And here we are!<br /><br />Anyways, this is a fine issue, partly (as you say) because it's the penultimate chapter of a big story and it gets to promise so many things and it's all big and exciting. And when you read it in isolation, you can judge it on its own merits instead of whether or not the next issue sticks the landing (spoiler: I don't think it totally does). My main complaint is that, like most of Davis' solo run, it falls prey to over-exposition bug. But dear god does it look fantastic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com