I don’t judge books based on previous experiences with the writer, I just can judge what I have in front of me at the moment. My issue is not that Excalibur is subservient to Hickman’s X-Men story, is that is not even good as a side-story to it. It doesn’t add anything to the overall narrative as do the other titles, the characters are in their majority interchangeable, and the overall plotting and pacing feel off. This title would have been served better by being an Apocalypse solo (which in many ways it is). His story bests are the only ones that matter at the end for Tini.