Sunday, February 25, 2007

New Excalibur #15 - Marvel


This is a good incarnation of the team. I like all the members on it. Right now they're following Juggy to Korea. He's having a problem with the reception he's getting from the Cyttorak gem. Ever since he became a "good" guy, his powers seem to be waning. So anyways, he goes to the Temple of Cyttorak to get his powers back, but he's told that he was never really meant to get the powers in the first place. They were actually supposed to go to Xavier. Somehow, on the way there, the whole team seems to be at odds with itself. Nobody is really getting along. That is until the protectors of the temple show themselves. The Crystal Ninja's, I guess. Anyways, when they show up, everybody just comes together as a team. We get a glimpse of what Pete is actually capable of. It's not nice. So anyways, our team beats the Ninja's, and they enter the cave where Juggy is have a dialogue of self doubt with the Crystal. By the time they show up, he really doesn't believe that he's equal to the task. But the, just as the others arrive, the Crystal reminds him of his first task, he was to raze the village to the ground, of the man that he succeeded, for no other reason than that the man, by being defeated, had disappointed the gem. So without hesitation, he wiped out the whole village and all it's people. Well our team seems to be hooked in to this psychic connection also, so they see the slaughter. They had come to help, but now they're not so sure. They all depart. Juggy catches up with them back in England, coming mainly to pack his stuff. But, he's met by Pete. They talk, and Pete lets on that he's done some things in his past that he's not to sure he'd want everyone to know about, so he gives him a pass. So I guess he's back on the team. But is he going to have to do some evil to keep the gem happy? Only time will tell. Great series. And great set of characters.

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