What happened to Excalibur?
Alan Davis, creator of Cerise, Kylun (based on the boy from Excalibur #1, created by Claremont/Davis), Micromax, and Feron, quit to do other things. After his departure, Marvel decided they wanted Excalibur to be more of a mutants-only title, and started systematically getting rid of the interlopers. Excalibur #58 was the last of the Davis issues, although #56-57 were actually scripted by Scott Lobdell. The issues after were written by Scott Lobdell and/or Richard Ashford, and are stories that make Excalibur fans howl in agony, even before the undignified retirement of characters fans had come to like. Cerise left in #70. Cerise had been in the Shi’ar military before her time in Excalibur, on a recruiting ship. Not approving of the atrocities the crew committed in the name of the Shi’ar Empire (looting, pillaging, genocide, etc.), she sent the ship into a sun. She did teleport herself out first–that’s how she landed in Excalibur. Now, Lilandra could not let this pass. While she did no
