which one was the best of the Excaliber series?

[thanos the titan]

Witch one of the Excaliber series did you liked most 1:st 2:st or 3:st vol ?

[Novaya Havoc]

Never ever ever got into Excalibur at all.

So I never cared.

But, I know that New Excalibur (3) was the worst comic I've ever read.
And Excalibur 2 didn't last long.

So I'd wager the original by default.

[thanos the titan]

Personily i liked all of em but the 3 was something special, i hope marvel makes more comics like that one , just too bad House of M came and destroyd it :(

[Novaya Havoc]

Volume 3 was New Excalibur, featuring Stroke Girl, Diana Fox, and Al Blair.

I think you're talking about Vol 2 on Genosha, boyo.

[thanos the titan]

opps lol :P
But the one on genosha was realy good in the begining ,building there own Nation and all ,too bad it was destroyed

[Beast]

No, he's right. Marvel tagged Vol. 3 as Genosha. The mini-series from 2001 was Vol. 2.

Excalibur: Sword of Power #1 - #4 from 2001.

[The Sword Is Drawn]

Technically it's:

Excalibur v1: 1987-1998 (#1-125)

Excalibur v2 (Sometimes referred to as 'Sword of Power' although it never went by that name): 2001 (#1-4)

Excalibur v3 (The genoshan unassociated project which held the name under copyright): 2004-2005 (#1-14)

New Excalibur: 2005-2007 (#1-24)

Of all of the above only volume one was really good. Volume two kind of continues where the original series should have gone. It advances Captain Britain's story, has him fulfilling the task he and his siblings were created for.

Sadly Chris Claremont spent House of M, New Excalibur and X-Men: Die by the Sword pretending none of that ever happened, to the point that it has now been retconned out of existence.

Excalibur volume three does not really count as Excalibur. It bares the name, but not the setting, characters or sense of purpose. It wasn't a bad series, at all. But should really have been given a new name. We know that it only inherited 'Excalibur' to keep the name under copyright. That fact itself doesn't really do it justice.

New Excalibur was a decent concept, but went woefully wrong. The less said the better, really. Excalibur fans demanded it for so long, but it disappointed.

Here's to the PROPER Excalibur relaunch this year.

[DDM]

I prefer the Chris Claremont & Alan Davis Excalibur with the founding members: Captain Britain, Meggan, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, & Phoenix. The book is a perfect synthesis of the David Thorpe/Alan Moore/Jamie Delano/Alan Davis & Alan Davis Captain Britain & the mutant Uncanny X-Men thanks to the link of Betsy Braddock becoming a core member of the team during the Mutant Massacre, although Claremont had been building toward Betsy joining the team since she was reintroduced in The New Mutants Annual #2.

The stories are both whimsical & tragic since tragedy brought the team together thinking the X-Men had died in battle. All of the team has scars of some kind such as Nightcrawler losing his ability to teleport multiple times in a row, Kitty being is a permanent phase, Captain Britian & Meggan are dependent on the British isles for their powers to work correctly, & Rachel is the lone survivor of a mutant Holocaust where Sentinels rule the United States.

Furthermore, Shadowcat has a mystical link with Illyana's demon sorcery & able to wield her Soulsword (a key in defeating the enchanted Brian Braddock & Meggan as the Goblin Princess in Excalibur #7 during Inferno). Nightcrawler resembles a demon, although he is very religious Catholic himself.

I really liked where Chris & Alan was taking all the characters.

[The Sword Is Drawn]

It's so haror me to read those Early Clare,ont/Davis issues and then read New Excalibur. It's hard to even see it as the same writer working on both books. I really do wonder how you go from Brian Braddock being such a great character to read in Claremont's Excalibur, to being a virtual noentity in New Excalibur - barely ever out of costume, and spouting speeches. We never really saw Brian himself in NEX.

[RickyD410]

I never read the original Excalibur. Were there actually British characters in it, besides Captain Britain?

I'd like to see this Excalibur be made up of British characters. Captain Britain, Psylocke, Widsom, Chamber, and Wolfsbane. The only other British character that I know of is Pixie, who is Welsh. But I like her with her teen friends in New/Young X-Men.

[The Sword Is Drawn]

Originally Posted by RickyD410

I never read the original Excalibur. Were there actually British characters in it, besides Captain Britain?

Captain Britain and Meggan were both British. And they had British supporting characters in the form of Moira McTaggart (Scottish), Alistaire and Alysande Stuart (Technically Scottish), and Dai Thomas (Welsh police detective).

In later years that also gained Kylun (Scottish), Micromax (English, Feron (Technically Irish though I think) Pete Wisdom (English), Wolf'sbane (Scottish) and Rory Campbell (Who was Scottish, and in Rachel Grey's time-line became Ahab).

It was a very good mix of characters.

Originally Posted by RickyD410

I'd like to see this Excalibur be made up of British characters. Captain Britain, Psylocke, Widsom, Chamber, and Wolfsbane. The only other British character that I know of is Pixie, who is Welsh. But I like her with her teen friends in New/Young X-Men.

And that would be a great line-up. I miss Rhane not being on Excalibur, and Chamber should be there by now.

The next volume of Excalibur promises a predominantly British cast. But they're not all likely to be mutants...

[Beast]

Other than Pete Wisdom, I don't believe any of them will be.

[DDM]

Originally Posted by The Sword Is Drawn

Captain Britain and Meggan were both British. And they had British supporting characters in the form of Moira McTaggart (Scottish), Alistaire and Alysande Stuart (Technically Scottish), and Dai Thomas (Welsh police detective).

You forgot the supporting character in Courtney Ross (aka Mastrex Opal Lun Sat-Yr-9)...;)

[jhota]

Vol. 1! the Cross-Time Caper was the greatest Excalibur story ever...

and it was the best line-up.

[The Sword Is Drawn]

Which in many respects is not entirely a bad thing. As New Excalibur taught us, making a team out of B and C list X-Characters doesn't really work. Especially when there are higher profile Marvel Universe characters out there who are either British or tied to Britain.

Marvel's Britain has always been a predominately non-mutant landscape, anyway.