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I would really rather that they didn’t.

This remains the central, constant, and most limiting aspect of Captain Britain as a character.

He is not an X-Man. He is not a mutant. Nor has he ever...

Good god. You’re all still here?

Glad to see somebody still giving a **** about Brian Braddock. Somebody needs to.

Having spent some time thinking back over the last 15 years worth of Events and storylines did get me thinking. Secret Invasion and House of M aside much of those years really was an exercise in...

That I would agree on. GotG was a bit of a mismatch, in my opinion. Was also quite unsure over the redesigns (which seemed to be part Mass Effect inspired with the armour aesthetic). That seemed...

I think that Disassembled *was* necessary, though. While The Avengers certainly wasn't a sales failure in the late 90s and early 2000s it very much felt like it was a comic book from a different age....

Don't get me wrong, by and large i genuinely like Bendis' work. He was part of what got me back into reading Marvel in the early 2000s, through Daredevil and New Avengers and Ultimate Spidey in...

I think the greater source of confusion with Bendis' retelling is that it removes her growing up in Britain. Sure her parents remain British, but her early life is pretty much all Wundagore until...

Wouldn't mind seeing that myself. Still kinda hacked off the Bendis effectively retconned her British nationality out of the books, with her amended origin story in the mid 2000s. Born in Transia by...

You know there are some. And I think a few of us are aware that there are some. But it's so rare hat anybody at Marvel remembers them. I'd be curious to know, too.

Very early Bryan Hitch, but you can see quality forming in his artwork.

At times in those days I always felt that you could see an element of Alan Davis in some of his work. Which was no...

I know that we have on in Britain, but I don't believe that such a body exists for America. I could be wrong.





Interesting. Could be. He did have that tenure leading X-Force, after all....

Fair point. Although I doubt very seriously that the takeover wouldn't go through, at this stage.

As to whether Wisdom would ever get used? As likely as any other character we talk about in this...

You and me both.

Now that Fox is owned by Disney I hope that Pete Wisdom is back on the table. No more of this modelling Lance Hunter on Wisdom.

Ah, so another standing in background appearance...

Yeah. Plenty UK developers faired similar.

Psygnosis became Sony's Studio Liverpool.

Sensible Software became part of Codemasters.

A lot of 8 bit and 16 bit developers sold up or merged...

I'm not entirely sure that's true. Excalibur's history of development is a curious one. For a start it did not begin as as an X-Men book.

Claremont very genuinely did, as I understand it, try...

Basically, yes. And

a) Meggan shouldn't need anybody to rescue her. She was previously perfectly capable of looking after herself, thank you.

and

b) It painted Brian very badly out of...

It could be. Agreed. It's just kind of on a modern blacklist if you're working class. Definitely not people from the Traveler community. And most US writers do seem to forget that about Meggan. They...

John's response to the continual phrase of Secret Invasion's invading Skrulls remains a key memory of the event for me.

Skrull: She Loves You.

John: Yeah, yeah, yeah... (Bam!) :)

I guess...

Actually? Yes.

This past weekend former Marvel UK Editor John Freeman posted up a story on Down The Tubes in relation to Fox's buyout from Disney. Mentioning now how effectively this puts a rest...

Nope. They were chancers, who had never completed a movie before but believed that they could talk Disney into giving them access to the the Captain Britain IP, for the purposes of a TV series.
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Or...





Demon Bowler beat me to it... :)

God, that story was effing terrible. One giant implausible, badly researched, continuity mashed mess from start to finish.

But even excepting that, some kind of face off between Betsy and Brian...

Very much so. And while it is currently in vogue to bring old names back (My cousin has called his son 'Arthur' and I can think of at least one kid named 'Esmeralda' locally) 'Maggie' is pretty much...

It's hardly the first time, and it probably won't be the last. At this point I can't shake the feeling that Brian and Betsy's estrangement is all but editorially mandated now.

I know that the...