Britain Prevails! Marvel UK lives here...

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I've seen speculation over on the X-Boards that this "Pete" from the Deadpool 2 trailer is Pete Wisdom:

I don't imagine he appears as anything more than a photograph, though.

His in the plane as well in the trailer so it is more than just a photo cameo

Played by a Canadian??? I hope not.....

Rob Delaney is American and has lived in the UK for a few years. He can probably do a decent comedic British accent.

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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.

[The Sword is Drawn]

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.

[The Whovian]

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.

[Panic]

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.

[The Sword is Drawn]

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.

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.

[danielsan52]

I wouldn't mind Jessica Drew returning to the UK. It would be cool to see her in EXcalibur too, if they ever reformed.

[Fairyprincess]

Is death's head in the second issue of darkhawk.... I'm sure he's on the cover......

[milton75]

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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That time Judge Dredd, Desperate Dan and Captain Britain entered a biggest chin contest... and lost to Bruce Forsyth.

From Comic Relief Comic, a one-shot from the early 90s.

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

[Digifiend]

Considering it was published in 1991, that's actually ALL of the Doctors. Seven was the current one back then.

[The Sword is Drawn]

I wouldn't mind Jessica Drew returning to the UK. It would be cool to see her in EXcalibur too, if they ever reformed.

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 that retelling, and as far as I know that's canon.

[Digifiend]

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.

[Mike_Murdock]

I wouldn't mind Jessica Drew returning to the UK. It would be cool to see her in EXcalibur too, if they ever reformed.

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.

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 that retelling, and as far as I know that's canon.

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.

[Tazirai]

I wouldn't mind Jessica Drew returning to the UK. It would be cool to see her in EXcalibur too, if they ever reformed.

I still consider her V1 series from the 70's the best version of her. I loved the art, dialogue, etc. Great great reading.

[The Sword is Drawn]

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.

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.