From: lazarus@nighthawk.ksu.ksu.edu (Bart -Laz- Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.xbooks
Subject: Re: Excalibur #56 (SPOILERS)
Date: 13 Sep 1992 00:37:24 -0500
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In article <rlcarr.05gs@animato.network23.com>, rlcarr@animato.network23.com (Rich Carreiro) writes:
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>Wow...Davis continues to eviscerate the dangler list...is this REALLY
>an X-book? :-)

Dunno, but it looks good to me!

>Pros:
> -- We know how Sat-yr-9 escaped
> -- We know what happened to the nerd Widget gated to her (he's dead).
> -- We know what happened to the real Courtney Ross (dead).

Yeah... Although I really disbelieved that for the past few years, it WAS kinda
obvious, what with that telltale human-shaped pile of ashes on the floor...

> -- Nigel Frobisher was killed.

I actually thought that this was kind of a bad deal.  I mean, Nigel was a major
dick, sure, but he COULD have evolved into something TRULY nasty, and become a
REAL villain...

> -- Neat flashbacks/rememberances of the CPTB.
> -- We now know that even Jamie (our world's Jamie) didn't know about
>    his reality-warping powers.

We DID know this, from the cross-time caper (I can't remember the issue
number)...  He made mention to Nigel, soon after being rescued from Doc Croc, that
it was "too bad this is all just a dream".  

>Cons:
> -- Alys{ande|dane} is dead.
> -- "The focussed totality of my psychic powers!"  ARRRRRGH!
> -- Sat-yr-9 and Jamie (and the real Vixen?) escaped.  It would have been
>    nicer if this had been finished once and for all.
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>Questions:
> -- If Meggan is not bound by the "strings" Jamie manipulates, then
>    why was Meggan helpless against Jamie when they fought his alternate
>    during the Cross-Time Caper?

Their FIRST battle happened before Meggan learned what her true form really was...
back when she had a LOT less confidence and a much lower self-image.

> -- Why did they suddenly change Alysande's name to Alysdane?

Why did the name of the school that Courtney (Sat-yr-9) sent Kitty to change from
St. Syrril's to St. Cyril's?  Hmm....

> -- Who's trying to frame her?
> -- What effects will Psylocke's psychic knife have on Jamie?

Probably the same effect it has on anyone she uses it on... scrambles the thought
patterns quite a bit.  Or did you mean did it bring Jamie to his senses?  Looks
like we'll have to wait and see...

> -- What did/does Sat-yr-9 want with Kitty?

I can think of at least TWO reasons... For one, Kitty has the potential of
becoming a sorceress of MAJOR power (as "Queen Courtney" pointed out in Excalibur
#9), and if Sat-yr-9 had HER in her arsenal as such...  The second (but not quite
as obvious) reason would be that, if Kitty were to get to the former Limbo and get
the Soulsword...

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Bart -Laz- Smith
Kansas State University
In one week the 'Cats go hunting for Grizzlies...
"I don't see why I'm tempting fate... it seems to have it in for me already..."
	--  Me
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