BRITAIN PREVAILS - Captain Britain & MI13 Appreciation PART II

[Zarquon]

Huzzah for this thread :)

[The Sword Is Drawn]

Huzzah for this thread :)

Glad you agree!

[Panic]

Huzzah for this thread :)

Welcome to the thread, Zarquon. Misery loves company!

I hope you brought your singing fish.

[LucyFury]

I have a random question. Death's Head had Spratt. Death's Head II has the lovely Tuck. Does Death's Head 3.0 have a playful sidekick? I've never read that series. (A certain someone hasn't bought it for me yet.)

[The Sword Is Drawn]

I have a random question. Death's Head had Spratt. Death's Head II has the lovely Tuck. Does Death's Head 3.0 have a playful sidekick? I've never read that series. (A certain someone hasn't bought it for me yet.)

To be honest? Death's Head 3.0 doesn't have much of a personality, let alone a sidekick. He only ever had the one brief story, and even then editorial cut the one line of dialogue that was intended. A great shame. All those people who voted on Marvel.com, only to be given a version of Death's Head which really failed to grasp very much about the character at all. :(

[Gryphon]

To be honest? Death's Head 3.0 doesn't have much of a personality, let alone a sidekick. He only ever had the one brief story, and even then editorial cut the one line of dialogue that was intended. A great shame. All those people who voted on Marvel.com, only to be given a version of Death's Head which really failed to grasp very much about the character at all. :(

And yet it was written by Furman.

[Gryphon]

Speaking of Furman, I just finished reading transformers classics UK vol 1 and I have this thought. I now need to read the US stories to understand everything but the art was good except that the intitial stories had the characters resembling the toys instead of the cartoon whihc was weird.

[LucyFury]

To be honest? Death's Head 3.0 doesn't have much of a personality, let alone a sidekick. He only ever had the one brief story, and even then editorial cut the one line of dialogue that was intended. A great shame. All those people who voted on Marvel.com, only to be given a version of Death's Head which really failed to grasp very much about the character at all. :(

Thank you. I don't think I like the sound of Death's Head 3.0 very much. I may just skip it. I think I'll buy S.W.O.R.D. instead.

I haven't been a fan of Transformers ever since they killed off all of my favs in the 1986 film. Poor Brawn.

[televiper11]

Did all of you see that more noble Cap that appeared in Thor: The Mighty Avenger? I believe it was issue #4.

[Panic]

Did all of you see that more noble Cap that appeared in Thor: The Mighty Avenger? I believe it was issue #4.

I think scans of it have been posted of it in this thread. Everyone was very pleased with it, iirc. I think they even got his classic costume right.

[The Sword Is Drawn]

And yet it was written by Furman.

It was, though he has spoken of his frustration over the story. He did not have the copntrol he would have liked, especially re: dialogue from DH. He speaks in the intro from one of the DH1 trades which Panini did of how he'd have liked to link DH3.0 to the other two incarnations some day.

Speaking of Furman, I just finished reading transformers classics UK vol 1 and I have this thought. I now need to read the US stories to understand everything but the art was good except that the intitial stories had the characters resembling the toys instead of the cartoon whihc was weird.

They actually did, more often than not. Even in the later yers they were more of a hybrid style of cartoon syle art sensibilities, but a clearer match to the actual design of the toys where possible.

Thank you. I don't think I like the sound of Death's Head 3.0 very much. I may just skip it. I think I'll buy S.W.O.R.D. instead.

I can very much recommend SWORD. Good stuff.

Did all of you see that more noble Cap that appeared in Thor: The Mighty Avenger? I believe it was issue #4.

I have the issue. A great shame that series ended so soon. It was a proper Captain Britain appearance, too, I agree. Different unverse, but very much how Brian should/would interact with Thor and the Warriors Three.

[Willow616]

It seems the Clan Destine crossover is getting some further exposure

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/05/...verine-annual/

Really excited about this one.......

[Aelle3]

EDIT: I realise this is old ground I'm re-stamping on. sorry




So was off work due to the flu and read from issue 21.1 to 25 of Secret Avengers. I have to admit that i am really enjoying the story itself. I really like the robo-cabal and hope we get to see more from Emperor Doombot, because I love the idea.

My feelings on Brian's appearances in these issues is mixed. For every up moment we have, such as the Beast/Brian interaction, we get a smack in the face, al la calling the 40s generation 'sodding arrogant'. Now, you cant tell me that's what he thinks about Spitfire or Steve Rogers. Even Captain Midlands wasn't arrogant, totally foolish and selfish, but not arrogant.

But something that I thought wouldn't bother me, but I just cant seem to get out of my head is the power suit business. Its just so jarring if you have followed modern Cap at all. I obviously realise that Merlin can change up his powers at a wim and it was even mentioned on panel, but its bothering me. Brian must have peeved off Merlin pretty bad to be put all the way back to this level of suit assistance.

So a mixed bag for me so far, but a leap up from UXF.

[Gallifrey]

EDIT: I realise this is old ground I'm re-stamping on. sorry.

Stamp away, 'tis your prerogative . Happy to hear you're up to speed.

But something that I thought wouldn't bother me, but I just cant seem to get out of my head is the power suit business. Its just so jarring if you have followed modern Cap at all. I obviously realise that Merlin can change up his powers at a wim and it was even mentioned on panel, but its bothering me. Brian must have peeved off Merlin pretty bad to be put all the way back to this level of suit assistance.

Just something else we're expected to accept happened "off panel". (Are Brian and Merlyn supposed to have had any direct interaction since the end of "Die By The Sword"? (How) Does he know that Merlyn's manipulating him again, and why is he so acquiescent about it? Beats me).

If Remender had actually taken any time or effort to explain why Brian had reverted to his early '90s status quo I might be less damning about his take on the character. Maybe. Possibly. But he strikes me as a writer who's more interested in dealing with the OMG!! moments, and consequently the mechanics of taking us from point A to point B (the basics of good storytelling) are abandoned in favour of getting us from point A to point Y O Y O Y???

On a more positive note... anybody/everybody get their Asda CB t - shirt yet? It's very ...red. And that's a big graphic. By 'eck that's a big graphic. And it's a shame they printed that slogan on top of it. Buuuuut, it's a nice piece of Alan Davis artwork, and it's a reasonably quality piece of shmutter. And they got the colours right!

I'm not big on wearing either comics tees or clothing with the Union Flag stamped on it, but I think I might use the Olympics shenanigans as an excuse to wear it this summer. And I think CB needs all the support he can get these days...

[coolbeans74]

On a more positive note... anybody/everybody get their Asda CB t - shirt yet? It's very ...red. And that's a big graphic. By 'eck that's a big graphic. And it's a shame they printed that slogan on top of it. Buuuuut, it's a nice piece of Alan Davis artwork, and it's a reasonably quality piece of shmutter. And they got the colours right!

I'm not big on wearing either comics tees or clothing with the Union Flag stamped on it, but I think I might use the Olympics shenanigans as an excuse to wear it this summer. And I think CB needs all the support he can get these days...

i got mine, and i have to say it's a really nice quality shirt, not crazy about the slogan, but it could have been worse,

i tend to buy comic related shirts that are a bit more vague to the casual observer, like my S.W.O.R.D. one, but as you say this will work for Olympics, Euros etc.., although i did wear it to the cinema when i went to see the Avengers, just to represent