D'wha?it also appears that new excalibur is Pete Wisdom, Juggernaut, Cap Britian (male), Dazzler, and Nocturne!
wait, wait wait, is this post house of M? (*checks*) ... Oh it is ... "back to basics" indeed! What on earth are they going to do with the other excalibur then? i'm just starting to bond with the characters dangit!
But hang on a minute, isn't Pete Wisdom dead???? Last i heard he had been shot point-blank in the head and X-force had to deal with a body, a funeral, everything, even with Psylocke coming back the way she did (which until i get a better explanation, i am blaming on Jaime Braddock, yeah, thats it ) isn't that pushing things a bit? How repeatedly dead can you get? (perhaps its the "bluebottle" syndrome - also known as the "OMG they killed Kenny!" syndrome... they bump him off and he's back again in the next episode, right as rain!) I feel upcoming sympathy pangs for Shadowcat...
And hang on another minute what the frell is Nocturne doing there?, didn't she get sucked into Xorn's head along with Juggy? (oh well, since Nighty is currently taken, i suppose they had to hwave someone blue in there...)
Captain Britain - as in Brian Braddock or something else? what happened to the female CB? even though she was in the US - why can't we have a female defender of a nation? (heck i remember a "Captain Cymuru" in the 'Cross-time-caper' with an... interesting outfit sure to make any fanboy sit up and beg - I wonder if Chris knew about/remembers her? must check my comic collection, i think Alan had taken over the writing by then)
Oh well, whether its good or bad, i guess its the eternal optimist in me that makes me look forward to revamps like this... okay, that and i'm a sucker for bright colours (dangit!)
and Chris? well i liked his stuff on Generation X it sorta suited the style of the series - what issues of his run i have... but my one gripe with his style is that on the "well muscled" characters like (for the sake of example) Colossus - is that they have a huge muscular Atlas-type body* and a teeny -tiny head on those massive shoulders - sigh, at first it was funny but now it just chafes, i keep wanting to get out a pencil and make the head a little bit bigger *twitch*
*reads on*
Well at least they aren't bringing back Jean!Phoenix anytime soon...
(egads these rants are catching aren't they?)
Heeeyyy.... the Exiles are going to the "Heroes Reborn" Universe - I remember that one! it was where the Avengers and FF were shoved Post-Onslaught, and it got flooded or something after they left *rubs hands together* oooOOOOooooh
*like in those old ads in comics - anyone remember those?