User blog comment:EC74pp/Wonderful, eccentric issue/@comment-3419446-20180913065301

I agree with your appreciation of Alan Davis' art, even with the praise toward Claremont's story. Excalibur may well have been Claremont's best run on any book since the flagship title, Uncanny X-Men, had started losing it in a major way around issue #168 or shortly after. Five years of timeline-hopping confusion followed, and I sure wish we had the Database way back then. Excalibur was weird, but in a fresh way. It's almost unconceivable both titles were written by the same author.