Talk:Excalibur (comic book)

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Issue	Publication Date	Writer	Artist	Colorist	Comic Book Roundup Rating	Estimated Sales to North American Retailers (First Month)	Notes
#1	October 30, 2019	Tini Howard	Marcus To	Erick Arciniega	7.6 by 25 professional critics	83,023	None
#2	November 20, 2019				7.3 by 14 professional critics	55,828
#3	December 4, 2019				8.3 by 10 professional critics	47,253
#4	December 18, 2019				8.1 by 6 professional critics	46,022
#5	January 8, 2020				8.1 by 8 professional critics	48,887
#6	January 22, 2020				8.6 by 10 professional critics	45,374
#7	February 12, 2020		Wilton Santos		7.5 by 8 professional critics	40,131
#8	March 4, 2020		Wilton Santos & Marcus To		8.2 by 4 professional critics	35,429
#9	March 18, 2020		Marcus To		7.6 by 6 professional critics	36,259
#10	June 10, 2020				7.8 by 8 professional critics	Data not yet available
#11	August 19, 2020				7.9 by 6 professional critics
#12	September 16, 2020				8.2 by 6 professional critics
#13	October 21, 2020		R.B. Silva	Nolan Woodward	7.7 by 8 professional critics		X of Swords tie-in
#14	November 11, 2020		Phil Noto		7.3 by 11 professional critics
#15	November 25, 2020		Mahmud Asrar Stefano Caselli	Sunny Gho Rachelle Rosenberg	7.6 by 4 professional critics

Don't want to outright junk this due to the links, but a huge, clumsy and incomplete table does this page no good. BoomboxTestarossa (talk) 08:27, 13 May 2023 (UTC) BoomboxTestarossa (talk) 08:27, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

Okay, I've filled out the bits I know about. A couple of explanations and observations: -

1. There is a lot of overlap between this page and Excalibur (comics). A merge isn't the answer IMO as Excalibur-the-comic doesn't always feature Excalibur-the-team and Excalibur-the-team aren't limited to appearing in Excalibur-the-comic. Stuff like rosters belong on Excalibur-the-team's page I feel, with the fictional changes of line-up only of passing relevance here. I am hoping to look at the companion article and revise it along those lines, but I'll wait to see if anyone vehemently disagrees with that notion first.
2. Consistency is needed, which is why I've chopped the above table and the roster table because unless we're going to do them for all the different volumes (and can you imagine what a table of 125 issues would look like?) it's just fancruft, and not even balanced fancruft. This does have the unfortunate effect of currently skewing the page towards the first volume because that's the stuff I have done the research for; it is not a value judgement and this page is only about 20% complete, not a finished article.
3. Covers. I think the infoboxes are justified in terms of consistency but I feel the sections for Vols 2-4 & New need to be beefed up in length before we drop covers in there. the sources to do so doubtless exist but it's outside my area.
4. Information on post-Davis material. While I wasn't too surprised to not find much about the book's last days or the 2001 material I was a bit surprised there isn't more information on Ellis' run out there considering his following and willingness to talk at length about his work, even allowing for his standing having fallen considerably in the past couple of years. BoomboxTestarossa (talk) 09:47, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

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