“Chapter Twelve: Long Live the King!”
Writer: Mike W. Barr
Artists: Brian Bollard and Terry Austin
Arthur and his knights continue the assault on the castle. Galahad sacrifices his life to detonate their ship and blow the alien army away. Tristan manages to defeat her foe. Lancelot through possible divine intervention survives the attack of Mordred. Enough for Mordred to be thrown against Merlin who is the son of Satan. When he touches the Grail armor it explodes. Merlin is free and transports everyone except Arthur back to Earth. Arthur use Excalibur to set off a nuclear explosion and thus destroying Morgan Le Fay.
The survivors gather on Earth and start to rebuild. Tristan decides to embrace lesbianism. Guinivere finds out she is pregnant and hopes it is Arthur’s. Tom leads the rebuilding of London. On an alien world, a fleeing alien finds Excalibur in a stone and pulls it out.
The end of this Maxiseries was quite satisfactory. Arthur sacrifices his life to destroy Le Fay. Didn’t know Excalibur could cause a nuclear explosion but what the hell this is a comic. The survivors find peace and somewhere the cycle starts all over on another world. This was a very eighties series and with Bollard’s beautiful artwork it was a joy to read.