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Excalibur Annual 2

Posted by John Klein III on June 1, 2015
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Excalibur Annual 2

Writer Richard Ashford

Penciler John Royle

Inkers Bill Anderson, Cory Carani and Philip Moy

Colorist Ariane Lenshoek

Letterer Janice Chiang

Cover Dated 1994

The Annual has three stories.  The First is Captain Britain and Psylocke trying to help their older brother, Jamie.  Kurt and Amanda are fighting Selene and the Hellfire Club.  The third story is the keeper.

A Change of Worlds

Writer Kim Yale

Pencilers Hannibal King & Yancy Labat

Inkers Jason Minor, Keith Champagne and WC Carani

Letterer Dave Sharpe

Colorist Chris Matthys

Plot Assist Jaye Gardner

Kitty received a box and a letter from someone who has access to her Westchester days (the Xavier Institute).

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Look how cute Lockheed is on the box.

The letter is from Kitty’s mother, who we haven’t seen in years.  If Carmen calls, Terri wants Kitty to tell him to call her.

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Kurt and Lockheed teleport the box to Kitty’s room.  Look at the face Lockheed is making on the return trip.  He doesn’t like the smoke and brimstone.

We get the impression, from Kitty, that she has tried to reach out to her mother and it is Kitty’s mother who has kept out of touch.

I do love Lockheed and Kitty talking, we haven’t had that in a long time.

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No one wanted to buy old floppy discs so Kitty turns on an old computer to see what is on the files.

Terri didn’t bother to pack the discs correctly, they were loose in the box.  Further signs that Terri barely knew her daughter.

“Cross your wings” is a cute expression.

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The discs have information on Doug, Warlock and Douglock.  Even Magik is shown in the footage.

Kitty runs pass Kurt, she needs to talk to Douglock.  She has Douglock scan the discs, as Doug wrote them.

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Douglock knows he isn’t Doug, so the information is wrong.  Kitty really just wants Doug back to life.  Which is a shame as once he returned to life in the third volume of New Mutants and they didn’t talk or see each other until the series ended.  Worst, it was in an issue of Savage Wolverine.

Once again, Kitty’s hopes are dashed.  Kurt is there to comfort Kitty, even though she just wants to be left alone.

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They hug and Kitty opens up to Kurt.  Doug wrote an entry stating that he wants to die a hero’s death, if he has to die.

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Once Kitty made peace with Douglock not being Doug, they pretty much never speak again in the page of Excalibur.

This was a cute little story.  Glad Lockheed got some pages.  I liked the artist who did the middle pages, but the first and last pages had a nice cartooony style as well.

There are three pin-ups – Arab, Nightcrawler and a picture of Muir Island’s underworkings – for some reason.

Women of Comics

Posted by John Klein III on March 12, 2015
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Comics Should Be Good are running the votes for Top Female Comic Creators, and I just can’t up with ten writers and artists, I mostly know female colorists.  So I thought I would at least promote the creative women that I’ve grown fond of over the years.

Writers – Devin Grayson and Gail Simone, both are mostly DC writers but both have written for the X-Men or X-Related projects.  Kathryn Immonen is another great female writer as in Marjorie Liu.  Of course, Ann Nocenti needs to be named, fantastic editor but famous for her Daredevil run.  Also, legendary Louise Simonson.  Kim Yale is a good writer, as well.

Artists – Jill Thompson, Alisson Borges, June Brigman, Elena Casagrande, Emily Warren, Colleen Coover, Vanessa Del Ray, Sara Pichelli, Ariela Kristantina, Sonia Oback, Alti Firmansyah, Yasmine Putri

Inker – Rachel Dodson

Colorists – Christie Scheele, June Chung, Laura Villari, Renee Witterstaetter, Marie Javins, Sasha Kimiatek, Lynn Varley, Michelle Wrightson, Laura Martin, Rachelle Rosenberg and the legend, Glynis Oliver (Wein)

Letterer Janice Chiang

For anyone who wants to vote, voting ends on March 16, here is a handy link

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2015/03/02/vote-for-the-top-50-female-comic-book-writers-and-artists-of-all-time/

Kelly Thompson, of She Has No Head! fame, has compiled a list of over a thousand women, so that list is here –

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2015/03/01/she-has-no-head-women-in-comics/2/

I really need to learn more female creators.  I was hoping compiling this list would have given me ten names on both sides.  I know we can group Pencilers and Inkers together but that still doesn’t get me to ten.

I went through the 49 pages of Tags that I have on this blog and came up with the above names.

I need three more writers before I can make my list official.  That’s a lot more ladies than I thought I have read or seen their work.  I really only thought I knew a small handful but look at the artists, alone, is impressive.

Okay, I was going to make a separate post but here is my list –

Ten Writers

  1. Louise Simonson
  2. Ann Nocenti
  3. Marjorie Liu
  4. Devin Grayson
  5. Kathryn Immonen
  6. Kim Yale
  7. Gail Simone
  8. G. Willow Wilson
  9. Kelly Sue DeConnick
  10. Kelly Thompson

I’m being a little cute with those last three.  Wilson is writing X-MEN, that I haven’t read and DeConnick is writing Ms. Marvel, that I’ve heard good things.  I figured Thompson must be getting a few votes, so I threw her name up there, as I do like some of her columns.  I also got those two names from just reading the comments section of the Voting thread, I figured someone had to write some names down that I would recognized, that’s all I was asking for.

Ten Artists

  1. Sara Pichelli
  2. Rachel Dodson
  3. Jill Thompson
  4. June Brigman
  5. Colleen Coover
  6. Ariela Kristantina
  7. Altri Firmansyah
  8. Yasmine Putri
  9. Alisson Borges
  10. Sonia Oback

I will put the results when the final list comes out.  Besides the top two artist, I am okay with anyone making the list.

I’m very excited about Simonson and Nocenti’s placement.  Actually, I want Liu to place highly on the list too, Immonen, I’ve only read the one thing of hers (AvX vs 6) and I’ve own a few issues of X-Men Evolution, written by Grayson, so I do want all five to be on the list.  I can only imagine that the Top Ten of both, will be dominated by American comic creators.  That just makes sense with who is voting on the list.

EDIT ON MARCH 16, 2015 –

I felt bad for not including Marguerite Bennett so Kelly Thompson was nice enough to let me edit my list.  Good bye, DeConnick and hello Marguerite Bennett!  I thought it would be in poor taste to knock Kelly off of her own list, or keep her in the tenth slot, so I bumped her up one.  That’s the least I could do.

Ten Writers

1. Louise Simonson
2. Ann Nocenti
3. Marjorie Liu
4. Devin Grayson
5. Kathryn Immonen
6. Kim Yale
7. Gail Simone
8. G. Willow Wilson
9. Kelly Thompson
10. Marguerite Bennett

Ten Artists

1. Sara Pichelli
2. Rachel Dodson
3. Jill Thompson
4. June Brigman
5. Colleen Coover
6. Ariela Kristantina
7. Altri Firmansyah
8. Yasmine Putri
9. Alisson Borges
10. Sonia Oback

Results start on March 21 and I’m now pretty jazzed about it