Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem

In 1989, Marvel published this one-shot special from the creative dream team of writer Chris Claremont and artist Arthur Adams, a wild detour for the British superhero team Excalibur. The issue throws Captain Britain, Meggan, Nightcrawler, and the rest into a bizarre, media-saturated conflict engineered by the dimension-hopping villain Mojo, a satirical take on television and pop culture. As a standalone showcase of Adams’s intricate, cartoonish detail and Claremont’s knack for character-driven chaos, Mojo Mayhem remains a fondly remembered, self-contained adventure that captures the offbeat spirit of the late-’80s X-Men corner of the Marvel Universe.