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The nextCaptain Britainhas been chosen to conduct a brand fresh squad bearing theExcaliburname , leading the newly unitedX - Meninto a raw kind of battle . One leave behind Krakoa for the grotesque fields of Avalon , and promising a fusion of mutants , thaumaturgy , and Morgan le Fay .
As proof thatthe newX - Menteams and bookswill be undertake completely unlike missionary work , Excalibur # 1drops a select group of mutants ( possessing different levels of sorcery ) into a disaster totally take out from the eternal sleep of Marvel ’s world . The Otherworld is in a res publica of warfare , and the puckish sorceress Morgan le Fay is looking to kill those responsible for for invading her realmin the form of a Krakoan portal site . With her hatful presently to be rig on taking the offense , it will fall to Excalibur – now made up of Captain Britain , Rogue , Gambit , Rictor , Jubilee , and baddie turned mutant priest Apocalypse – to hold the occupation . And to get buff excited , Marvel has released an prescribed trailer .
If that is n’t enough to convinceX - Menfans that this more magical and mystical escapade is making the most of Marvel ’s fancy , then we ’ll have Howard herself explain the inspiration taken from modern fantasy … and who are we kidding : persona - playing games :
We ’re read those awe-inspiring things from the original Excalibur , this beautiful fantasy world – the Otherworld , and Avalon , and the Captain Britain Corps , and all of that – and we ’re read , ' How do the decade - Men interact with this from a topographic point of triumph instead of loss ? ' What sort of conjuration can they make ? … A earthly concern in which they have the distance and the freedom to germinate their civilisation , to learn legerdemain and artwork , and to make these things that mutantkind has never see before . And not only do they get to whoop it up in it , the rest of the world has to deal out with it .
I ’ve always been someone that like to roll some die and toy some games , so I would be lie in if I said I had n’t thought of the characters as their persona within the party . When we were in the room and we decided we were going to make Betsy Captain Britain , it was like , ' That ’s the Paladin . That ’s the loss leader of our team . ' Revelation of Saint John the Divine is the big question grade on the squad , right ? So when we see the new position quo for mutation , we might understand why Apocaylpse has even braggart plans than anyone else on the island .
Excalibur # 1is available now at your local funny Quran shop , or unmediated fromMarvel Comics .
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