jam
01-12-2007, 04:11 AM
Folks,
I've just finished reading this new TP which features work by Chris Claremont, Mike Friedrich and Herb Trimpe. It's the original run of Captain Britain stories from his own Marvel UK comic back in the late 70's.
I bought this mostly out of nostalgia as I'd read the originals.
I wasn't disappointed. It is mostly by-the-numbers super-hero fare, but what's the matter with that? Trimpe seemed to be channeling Kirby, especially in the early issues, right down to the cosmic dots.
I've always liked Trimpe's work but what I think of as "his style" is the work he did on the Hulk. No sign of that here, though. No doubt he was under orders.
A couple of things :
a) some last page of some "episodes" are in b&w. I guess that was due to a restriction on how many pages could be in colour. I'm only raising this because I was once the proud owner of a Captain Britain annual which reprinted around the first five weekly installments and I'm pretty sure it was all in colour. A shame Panini couldn't get a hold of those pages coloured for the annual.
b) this is only volume one! I really hope they put out volume two and finish up Trimpe's run on the character. Then they should have the Claremont/Byrne Marvel Team-Up issue. And then the appearance of the character in "The Black Knight" strip, I think it was? And bring us up to the start of Alan Moore's run on the character. That would mean the whole of Captain Britain's solo-career would have been issued in TP format (I've already got the two Alan Davis volumes, thank you very kindly).
I've just finished reading this new TP which features work by Chris Claremont, Mike Friedrich and Herb Trimpe. It's the original run of Captain Britain stories from his own Marvel UK comic back in the late 70's.
I bought this mostly out of nostalgia as I'd read the originals.
I wasn't disappointed. It is mostly by-the-numbers super-hero fare, but what's the matter with that? Trimpe seemed to be channeling Kirby, especially in the early issues, right down to the cosmic dots.
I've always liked Trimpe's work but what I think of as "his style" is the work he did on the Hulk. No sign of that here, though. No doubt he was under orders.
A couple of things :
a) some last page of some "episodes" are in b&w. I guess that was due to a restriction on how many pages could be in colour. I'm only raising this because I was once the proud owner of a Captain Britain annual which reprinted around the first five weekly installments and I'm pretty sure it was all in colour. A shame Panini couldn't get a hold of those pages coloured for the annual.
b) this is only volume one! I really hope they put out volume two and finish up Trimpe's run on the character. Then they should have the Claremont/Byrne Marvel Team-Up issue. And then the appearance of the character in "The Black Knight" strip, I think it was? And bring us up to the start of Alan Moore's run on the character. That would mean the whole of Captain Britain's solo-career would have been issued in TP format (I've already got the two Alan Davis volumes, thank you very kindly).