Saturday, November 03, 2007

Separated at Birth: And over the rooftops when the stars prickle the skies/London is sleeping

Excalibur #1, 21, X-Men: Die by the Sword #1
L: Excalibur #1 (October 1988), art by Alan Davis and Paul Neary
M: Excalibur #21 (April 1990), art by Chris Wozniak and Al Milgrom
R: X-Men: Die by the Sword #1 (December 2007), art by Jelena Kevic-Djurdevic
(Click picture to Big Ben-size)



3 comments:

Kevin Church said...

You forgot Hawkeye!

(That's OK. So do I. For years at a time.)

Anonymous said...

Okay Bully, any idea what building they're standing on?

Will Pickering said...

Ah, but the Avengers were in New York, not London.

The Excalibur covers are a great sight gag: it really looks like they're perched Batman-like on a rooftop high above the street. You need to be at least passingly familiar wih the actual geography of London to realise that at that angle, they're either on one of the plinths of Westminster Bridge or the restraining wall of the Palace terrace, and so only a few feet from the ground!

The painted cover, with the clock tower brought forward, misses the joke, I think.