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Excalibur

Updated: Guide to Excalibur

January 27, 2023 by krisis 4 Comments

I’m excited to share this X-Guide update, not only because it contains my favorite comic of all time, but because it’s my first ever “normal” guide update! Updated today, it’s my Guide to Excalibur – including a complete Excalibur Reading Order and links to read every physical and digital collection of Excalibur ever released!

Guide to Excalibur

The Reading Order Guide to Excalibur - image from Excalibur (1988) #1

The Guide to Excalibur was the first 2010s guide that I rebuilt to my new style and standard in 2021, which means this is the first routine maintenance update I’ve done so far this decade.

Over the past year, Excalibur wrapped up its collection of the 2019 Tini Howard & Marcus To run in both trade paperback and oversize hardcover. Howard continued some characters and themes of that title into Knights of X (2022) with artist Bob Quinn, which was just five issues and collected in a single trade paperback.

(Howard is still writing Betsy Braddock, but now she has graduated to her own Captain Britain title!)

When it comes to past Excalibur collections, the two years since my last update brought us two major releases – plus some big news in the last month. [Read more…] about Updated: Guide to Excalibur

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Alan Davis, Betsy Braddock, Bob Quinn, Captain Britain, Epic Collections, Epic Marvel Podcast, Excalibur, Marcus To, Marvel Comics, Near Mint Condition, Tini Howard, Updated Comic Guide

Anatomy of a Comic Book Guide (and a comic book collection)

June 10, 2022 by krisis Leave a Comment

Finally slaying the ancient dragon that was my Guide to Legion of Super-Heroes inspired me to keep track of all of the many steps and processes it takes to put together a new comic book guide.

I think more people making more great guides to consuming comics (and other media!) makes the internet better for all fans. I love Omar’s Near Mint Condition video Reading Orders, How To Love Comics’s guide to reading your first comic, ComicsXF Primers, and ComicReleases solicits roundsups. All of them overlap with what I’m doing a little bit, but they’re all helping people find the comics they might love, which is why I started doing this in the first place.

Below I’ve listed my process for putting together a comic guide, which is also how I build a personal reading list or new comic collection! When I get interested in a new character, author, or title for the first time, my approach is almost identical to guide-building, even if I don’t plan on making a guide.

Throughout the list, I used my well-established Excalibur Guide and my new Patrons-only Legion of Super-Heroes Guides as examples. I tried to share some interesting behind-the-scenes nuggets along the way for all of you process wonks.

Feel free to use this guidance to help you put together your own handy guides, whether that’s for personal use or on a website. I certainly have some “secret sauce” and proprietary tools that help me make my guides so definitive, but anyone could work through this checklist to figure out a comics property from top to bottom. It takes me anywhere from 4 to 30 hours, depending on the complexity of the character or title I’m researching.

Here’s the breakdown of my steps.

  1. Create a list of series or volumes
  2. Decide on scope
  3. Organize (but don’t over-sort)
  4. Research your series list (this will include narrowing and expanding)
  5. Compile a collected editions list
  6. Assemble the stuff
  7. Conduct a clean-up pass
  8. Consider the meta-data
  9. Enjoy! (No, really! Make a plan for enjoying this hard work.)
  10. Schedule your first check-up

Now, let’s dig in! [Read more…] about Anatomy of a Comic Book Guide (and a comic book collection)

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Excalibur, Legion of Super-Heroes, obsessive collectorism

This Week in X of Swords, Week 10, Part 1: The Quiet Council fractures in X-Men #15 & Excalibur #15!

November 26, 2020 by krisis

The final week of X of Swords is so huge we had to break it in two!

Join Peter, Tyler, and Fariha as we dissect two of the three X-Men comics of 25 November, 2020 – X-Men (2019) #15 and Excalibur (2019) #15. They’re the 20th & 21st chapters of X of Swords, and they’re packed with political debate and action on the battlefield.

We have a lot to discuss about the tensions amongst the Quiet Council as one of their members wants to lead a more X-Men-esque heroic mission. Plus: the price of utopia, and what it means to be a mutant (vs. being an X-Man).


(watch on YouTube)

Need help making sense of reading and collecting the X-Men?

  • Excalibur Collecting Guide & Reading Order
  • Definitive X-Men Reading Order
  • Guides to all of Marvel Comics

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Age of Krakoa, Excalibur, Jonathan Hickman, This Week In X, Tini Howard, Video, X of Swords, X-Men

Recapping X of Swords, Week 8: Marauders #15, Excalibur #14, & Wolverine #7 | This Week in X

November 12, 2020 by krisis

Join Peter, Tyler, and Fariha as we dissect the eighth week of X of Swords in the X-Men comics of 11 November, 2020 – Marauders (2019) #15, Excalibur (2019) #14, & Wolverine (2020) #7.

They’re the 14th, 15, & 16th chapters of X of Swords, and the duels have finally begun – but, do they all contain the crossed swords we were expecting? We discuss dinner etiquette, double-crossing schemes, how Doug is neither a lover nor a fighter, and which duel we all loved to hate. Plus, we have a LOT to say about the artwork this week!


(watch on YouTube)

Need help making sense of reading and collecting the X-Men?

  • Excalibur Collecting Guide & Reading Order
  • Wolverine AKA Logan Collecting Guide & Reading Order
  • Definitive X-Men Reading Order
  • Guides to all of Marvel Comics

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Age of Krakoa, Benjamin Percy, Excalibur, Gerry Duggan, Marauders, This Week In X, Tini Howard, Video, Wolverine, X of Swords, X-Men

Recapping X of Swords, Week 5: Excalibur #13 and X-Men #13 | This Week in X

October 22, 2020 by krisis

It’s the fifth week of X of Swords, and we’ve got a pair of issues by the events architects, Tini Howard and Jonathan Hickman.

Did Peter, Tyler, and Fariha enjoy Excalibur (2019) #13 and X-Men (2019) #13? In this episode we discuss sibling rivalry, the 180° Rule, unreliable narrators, survival of the fittest, if Apocalypse believes in life after love (we really don’t think he’s strong enough, no), and more!


(watch on YouTube)

Need help making sense of reading and collecting the X-Men?

  • Excalibur Collecting Guide & Reading Order
  • Definitive X-Men Reading Order
  • Guides to all of Marvel Comics

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Age of Krakoa, Apocalypse, Excalibur, Jonathan Hickman, This Week In X, Tini Howard, Video, X of Swords, X-Men

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