Hey, Jay, have you noticed that all the winged horses in Asgard have Tolkien names?

Aragorn, Boromir, Galadriel.

Yeah, but those are just the Aesier horses.

Van Eyre-Winged Horse names lean more towards the pragmatic.

Like what? Misty? Cinnamon?

Aunt Edna's second husband, the third?

Mr. Horse.

What? What?

I'm Jay Addedon. And I'm Miles Stokes.

And we are here to explain the X-Men. Because it's about time someone did. Welcome to episode 505 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics greatest superhero soap opera. And welcome back to something you thought was over. Is anything ever really over? I mean, we're talking about shared universe comics. Well, I guess not, and you have to maintain copyright. But still, we finished X-Caliber, and hey, look, it's more X-Caliber. Different Excalibur. Well, sort of different X-Calibur, some overlap X-Calibur. This is a 2001 miniseries that returns to, like you said, some of the characters of Excalibur. It's a miniseries that originally was solicited as Excalibur Sword of Power, but by the time it came out, it was just Excalibur. Lots of people still call it that, though, so if you see that online, it's the same thing. And interestingly, it's more of a Captain Britain sequel than an Excalibur sequel.

Like, it's more of a follow-up to the stuff from when Captain Britain was doing his own

thing before Excalibur.

Yeah, I mean, the main Excalibur overlap is the name.

Yes, well, and there's the sword, although even that's complicated.

Whether that sword is properly Excalibur is, as you said, complicated, but we'll get there

eventually.

We will.

So, okay, listeners to this podcast will have heard a whole lot about Excalibur, Europe's

premier superhero team or whatever tagline they had at various times, full of a lot of mutants

and stuff.

Well, I was going to say Europe's premier superhero team until Brexit. Yeah, well, you know, what can you do? But, like we said, this follows up on the old Captain Britain comics, first written by Chris Claremont, then Ellen Moore, then Alan Davis, Dave Thorpe was in there, too. There were a number of writers. So maybe we should talk about what happened way back in the day, since we haven't covered this shit in like a decade, previously, in Mary Old Magical Britannia.

Way back in 1976, there was Captain Britain Volume 1.

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