The Sword is Drawn (comic story): Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Story SMW

|image         = The Sword is Drawn final shot.jpg

|main character = [[Captain Britain]]

|featuring     = [[Gatecrasher]]<br>[[Yap]]<br>[[Fascination (Executive Action)|Scatterbrain]]<br>[[Ferro]]<br>[[Ringtoss]]<br>[[Thug (Sid's Story)|Thug]]

|enemy         =  

|setting       =  

|writer         = Alan Moore

|editor         = [[Bernie Jaye]]

|penciller     = [[Alan Davis]]

|inker         =  

|letterer       = [[Steve Craddock]]

|cover         = Alan Davis

|publication   = ''[[ESE|Excalibur Special Edition]]''

|cover date     = 1 December 1987

|publisher     = Marvel UK

|format         = Comic Book

|series         = ''[[Excalibur (series)|Excalibur]]'' [[crossover]]s

|next           = My Friends Call Me "Billy the Kid!" (comic story)

}}

'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was an ''[[Excalibur (series)|Excalibur]]'' comic story and the main story published in ''[[ESE|Excalibur Special Edition]]'' and cover-dated [[December (releases)|December]] [[1987]]. It featured the reappearance of the [[Technet]] team including characters [[Fascination (Executive Action)|Fascination]] and [[Thug (Sid's Story)|Thug]], who had previously been identified as [[Gallifreyan]]s, as well as references to ''[[Sid's Story (comic story)|Sid's Story]]''.

[[Kitty Pryde]] suffers from a restless night where she is thrust from her bed and put onto a movie set alongside her former [[X-Men]] team members. [[Charles Xavier|Professor X]] acts as the director scripting the other X-Men, who are revealed to be actors without superpowers. Kitty is left puzzled by the events but [[Rachel Summers]] explains that reality has ceased to exist which has allowed exploitors to take control. Rachel uses her [[Pheonix force|powers]] and is later seized on Professor X's orders. Kitty uses her ability to phase through solid matter in order to free Rachel from her chains. With Rachel gone, Professor X orders the X-Men to turn on Kitty and they reveal themselves to be [[Warwolve]]s.[[File:The Sword is Drawn Xavier.jpg|thumb|left|[[Charles Xavier|Professor Xavier]], within a [[dream]], acts as [[director]].]]Back in her bed Kitty awakes and learns that the whole ordeal had been a dream, however escaping into the night Kitty witnesses a Phoenix in the sky and questions what this means.

* [[Ferro]]

== Worldbuilding ==