Mys-Tech Wars #1 Mar 1993
"Strange Screams of Death"
The MyS-TECH immortals' plans for the UnEarth come to fruition,
while demons are sent to deal with the X-Men and the Avengers.
Starring Nick Fury, Dark Angel, Wolverine, Captain America, Doctor Strange, X-Factor, Albion, Union Jack, Warheads, Psycho Warriors, Fantastic Four, Death's Head II.
Script by Dan Abnett. Art by Bryan Hitch & Jeff Anderson.
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 criticism, by the way. Davis was at the top of his game at that that point.
People often forget just how many great artists Marvel K had at their disposal back then.
Alan Davis (and Mark Farmer, of course)
Bryan Hitch
Gary Erskine
Liam Sharp
Gary Frank
Carlos Pacheco
Salvador Larocca
Mark Buckingham
Charlie Adlard
Doug Braithwaite
Carl Critchlow
Simon Coleby
Geoff Senior
Staz Johnson
Dermot Power
David Lloyd
Pascual Ferry
So many.
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Brian and Meggan appeared in X-Men Gold #25 today and it was so cool to see them again. I would love it if Marvel gave Brian a monthly book.
“Now faith, hope, and love remain, and the greatest of these is love.”--1 Corinthians 13:13
“You had a dream; I have a plan”--Cyclops
“There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.”--The Doctor
Nice that they got an appearance. Was this the issue set in Paris? If it was, did any French super-heroes get an appearance, or even a mention? I know there are some.
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I wouldn't mind Jessica Drew returning to the UK. It would be cool to see her in EXcalibur too, if they ever reformed.
Is death's head in the second issue of darkhawk.... I'm sure he's on the cover......
Sadly I don't think so. That's the Ron Lim variant cover to #1, and doesn't seem to have any relationship to the story. I've ordered a copy anyway, just to continue my DH obsession.
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A few days after reading this I picked up a copy in my LCS - for the princely sum of 50p! It's got a decent selection of writers and artists contributing, and some fun stuff like Dan Dare meeting several iterations of Doctor Who.
The whole thing is here if anyone wants to read it.
http://twoheadedthingies.blogspot.co...y-gubbins.html
Considering it was published in 1991, that's actually ALL of the Doctors. Seven was the current one back then.
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She's still a British citizen though, currently UK-US dual citizen. He didn't change that her family are British, nor did he retcon away her original series.
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I've always said, if I were writing books, one of them would be a team book involving Jessica Drew that deals with magical stuff. Looking at the roster, it would almost certainly end up as an Excalibur book given the need for labeling. I even thought of a fun little story involving her kid as well.
Weirdly enough, it was the motion comic of his Agent of SWORD comic that originally caused me to think of her as British. She's raised by British parents and Herbert Wyndham who is also British, so, even if she's not born in Britain, she would still both have a British accent and be of British citizenship by Jus Sanguinis.
Matt Murdock's cooler twin brother
I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!
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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 she's out there working for HYDRA. He inadvertently removed that connection.
I say 'inadvertently' because when he started his Spider-woman ongoing series the very starting point for that run was in London - which she still appeared to be familiar with even though her connection to Britain was now more down to parentage alone.
I'm not 100% sure Bendis realised he'd kind of retconned that out in Spider-woman: Origin.
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