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Post by thephantomwelshman on Dec 5, 2014 11:23:35 GMT -5
I recently read Revolutionary War, which was all British. There was issue dedicated to Harley Davis aka Motormouth and also Dark Angel. I was also stoked to see Dai Thomas who hails from my hometown of Swansea as part of the Knights of Pendragon. I really need to read Alan Moores Captain Britain run on Marvel unlimited.
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Post by lennyreid on Dec 11, 2014 8:16:00 GMT -5
Hi there. I'm a little ways north in Cambridge.
If you can recommend the Revolutionary War I might have to pick that up.
There was an excellent Avengers Assemble issue that was an Age Of Ultron tie-in, that brought Captain Marvel and Captain Britain to London. Anyone read that?
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Post by lennyreid on Dec 11, 2014 8:23:36 GMT -5
On British Female Superheroes...
The Jessica Drew Spider-Woman is English. Psylocke from the X-Men is English. Pixie from the X-Men is Welsh. Mina Harker in the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen is as English as someone can legally get. Also my favourite.
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Post by sailormarvel on Dec 11, 2014 14:44:48 GMT -5
I did not know Jessica Drew was ?ritish" and I cannot believe there is a Captain Midalnds! I must check Revolutionary War down.
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Post by tundra on Jan 5, 2015 10:36:49 GMT -5
Hi, another UK forumite here - I'm from Oxford and most likely planning on coming down to London for a Con this year (my wife, who isn't a comic reader at all, is keen to go for the cosplay)
On the subject of Captain Britain and other British superheroes, I'll see if I can add any more (mostly of the ancient history variety)...
The initial run of Captain Britain is kind of fun in a 70s Marvel way, but you have to read it with your tongue firmly in your cheek as it was obviously produced by people who had heard the the UK existed but whose research never got past the Victorian London of Jack the Ripper... around this time there is a really fun Spider-Man / Captain Britain story in Marvel Team Up involving Arcade - worth looking up on your Marvel Unlimited!
Towards the end of the 70s Captain Britain stories start being produced by Marvel UK instead - I remember these very fondly as they were among the first comics I read on a regular basis. He was first a supporting character in the Arthurian fantasy adventures of the Black Knight. He was then reinvented (into the Union flag styled costume he still wears) by Dave Thorpe and Alan Davis - at this point he was largely used as a straight-man for satirical stories and it tends to read as though Thorpe didn't like superheros all that much although he denies that. There is loads of information about this period in the foreword/afterword to the trade of this run. Then Alan Moore took over as the writer with Davis still on art. This was the "Jaspers Warp" storyline that you will see referenced all over the place and kept popping up in later Captain Britain and Excalibur stories.
From later stories, I'd certainly recommend both Excalibur and Captain Britain and MI13 (if you like the latter, it's worth checking out the writer, Paul Cornell's work as a novelist - his London Falling books are good stuff in an urban fantasy/horror vein).
A couple of other British superheros - the Falsworth family (Union Jack and Spitfire) featured in the Invaders and numerous other later stories. Paul Grist's Jack Staff is another British character more than a little similar to Union Jack, not altogether surprising since he originated from a rejected proposal for a Union Jack story. It also features tributes to loads of other British superheroes from IPC and Fleetway comics and even some creators.
Marvelman/Miracleman started life as a thinly veiled copy of the original Captain Marvel published in the UK and later became Alan Moore's first revisionist superhero project. Currently being reprinted by Marvel, hopefully to finally be completed by Neil Gaimen after more than 30 years... well worth checking out if you haven't before.
Zenith, from 2000AD, is a brilliant piece of early work from Grant Morrison about the superhero as a shallow pop-star celebrity, with hints of Lovecraftian horror. Unfortunately legal issues over the use of 'tribute' characters make it difficult to read the full story these days.
The Steel Claw could turn invisible apart from his steel glove, which would seem to float in mid air on its own. The stories were pretty bland, but the art by Jesus Blasco was spectacular.
The Spider was a master criminal with all manner of high-tech gadgetry and a brilliant mind. Originally his stories were about his heists, but over time he effectively became a hero as he spent most of his time taking out his competition as the King of Crooks.
There are lots more who are barely within the definition of superheros since most of the many adventure/humour comics being published right up into the 80s had at least one or two, but that's probably enough for now!
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Post by theboogieman on Jan 5, 2015 11:48:37 GMT -5
This is kind of random, and not really a response to the thread title or the conversation in here, but kind of relevant in a way. A website I used to be HUGE fan of, that isn't around any more, Spill.com, used to have a substantial UK fanbase, and used to hold parties in London, and one time the fans of the site (Spillios, they were called) actually organised their own meet-up-Halloween party thing at Orbital Comics. I didn't go, but I think they had like some special movie-type screenings-type stuff there, too. So yeah, I just thought some people might have found that somewhat mildly interesting. At their London parties, which were kind of an annual thing, people from all over the UK and Ireland I think as well would come, as well as some fans from Europe I think too. Spill wasn't even a huge thing like Rooster Teeth or something either though, but it had a hugely vibrant community. So yeah, that was kind of comics related, right? And meet-up related, too.
Hopefully Korey Coleman's new thing, Double Toasted, will keep getting more successful to the point where they can again do stuff in London. The fans will probably put something together at some point though.
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Post by lennyreid on Jan 6, 2015 11:08:59 GMT -5
tundra Weirdly I was just looking to purchase Alan Moore's run on Captain Britain as this thread got me reading the recent Revolutionary War series from Marvel and got me interested in the Marvel UK characters. I'm already a big Alan Moore fan and had been looking to grab these trades. I don't mind a bit of campy fun so I'll look to get the first couple of volumes (Moore's run starts at Vol 3). Thanks for the serendipity.
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Post by Blencs on Feb 26, 2015 18:01:40 GMT -5
Hello fellow UK TC fans, I'm from the middle-est of the Midlands, leicester. Been reading comics for about 3 years now mostly digitally. Big marvel fan with a touch of dc on the side. Really trying to branch out into more original stuff and am currently reading 'letter 44' 'Ragnorok' 'nameless' and 'divinity'. I've finished and loved stuff like Locke and key, the wake and strange attractors too. Never thought much about the captain Britain stuff but he has popped up in some thor stuff, x-force and most recently Avengers/new avengers so might take a look on marvel unlimited.
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