Bought the New Excalibur Yesterday

It's an interesting issue. I'd link t oa review, but I cannot find one yet, so her e is the preview.

Apparently, this new group is being brought together by the "decimation" of mutants brought about by the "House of M" storyline. Apparently, 90% of the world's mutants have been de-mutated (at least they have lost their powers, although in some cases, notably Polaris from no-adjective X-Men, it appears they lose their powers while retaining some strange features (e.g. green hair). In other cases, notably Beak from Exiles, they lose their weird features and become totally normal. Of course, "decimation" is usedi n reverse here, as usually decimatnion means reducing by 10%, not reducing to 10%.

In any case, my interest in the book is prrimrily due to the presence of Her Sexy Blueness, Talia Josephine Wagner (picture from the site with the preview), aka Nocturne, my favorite Marvel character.

If any of you have seen "The Season of the Witch" in Uncanny X-Men, where Captain Britain, Psylocke, Rachel Grey, Juggernaut, Meggan, and Nocturne had to work to stop a chaos wave that would have otherwise required the nullification of this universe, then you've seen what was apparently intended as the prequel to this comic. The storyline in "Season of the Witch" was horrible, in that the chaos wave was never explained (although it presumably was related to the House of M), 80% of issues 2, 3, and 4 (4-part issue) consisted primarily of filler, and what the heck they were doing to stop the chaos wave was never made explicit (although Juggernaut apparently jury-rigged a temporary solution to the "hole in reality" by stuffing Blob in there - I kid you not).

Of course, I'm not partial to "the whole universe will be destroyed" storylines anyway.

But it looks like The New Excalibur will likely be a lot better than what preceded it.

That is all.