User blog comment:EC74pp/Wonderful, eccentric issue/@comment-3419446-20180913065301/@comment-36799283-20180918123208

I had been reading Marvel and X-Men regularly for a couple of years when Excalibur started up, and loved it. But X-Men was generally a serious book where the writers never seemed to cut loose and just be goofy. Excalibur was almost a revelation to me as a kid...it could be be so playful and almost spoof-y at times, but still did a great job with making characters complex and always developing. Davis and Claremont were such a great team and those early issues where one or the other weren't involved suffered a lot, at least for me. I liked the book once Davis was both writing and drawing, but I still preferred the issues where Claremont was writing.