Excalibur #121

Nightcrawler lunges forward in the foreground, his blue features set with fierce determination, while a blonde-haired teammate and two other figures swirl around him in a dynamic, swirling composition — and the cover's urgent question, "Will the vengeance of Legion… claim its next victim?", makes it clear that Excalibur is facing a serious threat. Trevor Scott and Andrew Pepoy bring real energy to this June 1998 issue, capturing the team mid-crisis with fluid, kinetic linework. Ben Raab's "With Friends Like These…" promises the kind of complicated loyalties and high stakes that made this era of Excalibur genuinely compelling.