{"id":8219,"date":"2022-03-12T11:31:34-05:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T16:31:34+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goshgollywow.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:05:08-05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:05:08+00:00","slug":"x-men-legends-12-start-again-a-prelude-to-excalibur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voxpopcast.com\/wp\/2022\/03\/12\/x-men-legends-12-start-again-a-prelude-to-excalibur\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Men Legends #12: \u201cStart Again: A Prelude to Excalibur\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>X-Men Legends #12<\/h4>\n<h1>\u201cStart Again: A Prelude to Excalibur\u201d<\/h1>\n<p>Writer: Chris Claremont<\/p>\n<p>Pencils: Scot Eaton<\/p>\n<p>Colours: Rachelle Rosenberg<\/p>\n<p>Inks: Lorenzo Ruggeiro<\/p>\n<p>Letters: Joe Caramanga<\/p>\n<p>Editor: Mark Basso<\/p>\n<p>Original publication date: March 2022<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"X-Men Legends #12: \u201cStart Again: A Prelude to Excalibur\u201d\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=qa67e-11ccdd6-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;font-color=auto&#038;btn-skin=7\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s this? Anna, Mav, and Andrew talking about a <em>current<\/em> comic book? Released this very past Wednesday?? It took Chris Claremont writing a tie-in to our darling, officially known as <em>X-Men Legends<\/em> #12: \u201cStart Again: A Prelude to <em>Excalibur<\/em>\u201d to drag us into the present. Except it\u2019s not really the present; it\u2019s still the past, specifically, the space between \u201cFall of the Mutants\u201d and the arrival of the Technet at Muir Island in \u201cThe Sword is Drawn.\u201d We do some griping but also wax nostalgic about expectations and Claremont and what it means to love fictional characters who always keep changing with an obligation to remain the same. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe irony is: the humanity that makes Chris Claremont hurt by the X-Men existing beyond him, or makes fans criticize him for loving too much, is the same humanity that made \u2018Lifedeath: A Love Story,\u2019 or \u2018The Demon Bear Saga,\u2019 or \u2018The Sword is Drawn,\u2019 such great stories in the first place.\u201d -Mav<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a genre Claremont kind of invented: the idea of going back in your continuity and creating interstitial stories that add nuance and complexity for an audience that has now matured from them. It did that really well in \u2018Classic X-Men.\u2019\u201d -Andrew<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing I didn\u2019t like about Kurt so calmly explaining heroism is Kitty is that it interferes with the scene where Kitty yells at Kurt in \u2018The Sword is Drawn.\u2019 There, Kitty yelling at a grown man and telling him to grow the heck up, was disruptive. This is less so.\u201d -Anna<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe last two times Claremont has revisited Excalibur, he\u2019s pushed the Destiny and Mystique are Nightcrawler\u2019s parents agenda. And I will always applaud him for that. Keep fighting the good fight, Chris. I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s awkward.\u201d -Anna<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI loved the first teleport with Kitty and Kurt. She has her arms wrapped so tightly around his body, and he has his face tucked in her hair\u2014they look so desperate in that image, with palpable trust. That one\u2019s going to stick with me for a long time.\u201d -Anna<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the big things I\u2019ve taken away from my study of Chris Claremont is that Claremont wasn\u2019t just Claremont. Claremont was Louise Simonson and Ann Nocenti, plus every artist, penciler, and colourist, and a wonderful niche circumstance that lasted for a very long time.\u201d -Andrew<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like the final panel of Kitty, Kurt, and Lockheed in silhouette, with the sunrise that could be the sunset, and the Phoenix force burning above them\u2014that\u2019s a heavily nostalgic image that did succeed in hitting me right in the feels.\u201d -Anna<\/p>\n<p>Wanna keep the conversation going? Dr. Stephanie Burt joined Anna to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsxf.com\/2022\/03\/09\/excalibur-begins-in-x-men-legends-12\/\">review <em>X-Men Legends<\/em> #12 for ComicsXF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And as usual:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can find Anna on Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peppard_anna\">@peppard_anna<\/a>) and on her podcast with Andrew and Michael Hancock,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/threepanelcontrast.podbean.com\/\">Three Panel Contrast<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/3PanelContrast\">@3PanelContrast<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can find Andrew on Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClaremontRun\">@ClaremontRun<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>You can find Mav on Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrismaverick\">@chrismaverick<\/a>) and on his podcast,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/voxpopcast.com\/wp\/\">VoxPopcast<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VoxPopcast\">@VoxPopcast<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>-GGW Team\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X-Men Legends #12 \u201cStart Again: A Prelude to Excalibur\u201d Writer: Chris Claremont Pencils: Scot Eaton Colours: Rachelle Rosenberg Inks: Lorenzo Ruggeiro Letters: Joe Caramanga Editor: Mark Basso Original publication date: March 2022 What\u2019s this? 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