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Excalibur volume 2! But actually more like Captain Britain volume 2. (Excalibur #1)
Pretty sure we’ve all had that dream. (Excalibur #1)
What a sciencey science machine that is! (Excalibur #1)
You’d think Betsy’s face tattoo would remind Brian of the Crimson Dawn… But honestly, who remembers the Crimson Dawn? (Excalibur #1)
Where’s Waldo? (Or, this being a British story: Where’s Wally?) (Excalibur #1)
Some friend. (Excalibur #1)
Captain UK’s mullet remains sweet. (Excalibur #1)
Hi, Crusader X! (Excalibur #2)
Meggan didn’t get the memo that this was a crotch-first mission. (Excalibur #2)
…as played by Viggo Mortensen. (Excalibur #2)
I do love a good Team Hero pose. (Excalibur #2)
“It’s… probably one of these things on my back… Hang on…” (Excalibur #2)
The Brit-Cave! (Excalibur #2)
Subtlety! (Excalibur #3)
The greatest hero in history, chosen primarily for his… sperm? (Excalibur #3)
“Not, like, literally Excalibur. That thing’s in the next room.” (Excalibur #3)
An evil science machine! (Excalibur #3)
You guys used to be cuter. And less murderous. (Excalibur #3)
Gahhh, this panel is referencing a specific past panel from a specific past comic, but we can’t remember which! (Excalibur #3)
Sword of Omens, grant me sight beyond sight! (Excalibur #3)
Best trope best trope! (Excalibur #4)
Mastermind wields the blade Excalibur! Brian Braddock wields an especially dangerous word balloon! (Excalibur #4)
With the powers of elemental magic, telekinesis, and… sword! (Excalibur #4)
It works way better to sacrifice your queen when your queen is immune to death. (Excalibur #4)
“Hey, I liked my spikes, ya jerk!” (Excalibur #4)
The chamber would be filled with old familiar faces, but they’re all dead. (Excalibur #4)
…and no one ever spoke of this again. (Excalibur #4)
NEXT TIME: Rachel Summers is back!
Re: the Logan listener question, an idea occurred to me as I was thinking about differences between timelines with an old Logan (like Old Man Logan) and without (like Powers of X). It might be explicable as part of how his healing factor heals him to his self image – timelines where Wolverine feels old (or feels like he “should” be, to some extent) will see him being old, because his self image is consistent with that, and that creates a feedback loop that means he will eventually die of old age.
This would also explain how he became an old man in a couple decades in Old Man Logan, but his main timeline version looked the same back in WW2 – his constant memory wipes kept him from ever having a long uninterrupted period to remind him that he “should” be aging.
We can assume that the healing factor in PoX isn’t a function of his captors extending his lifespan, because he was using it and blood transfusions to extend Moira’s life, and presumably if his captors were extending their lives on purpose that wouldn’t be necessary. That said, in a thousand years there are plenty of opportunities for Comics Things to happen and change how his healing factor works, so it’s pretty easy to no prize away that timeline if you want to.