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We already have an ongoing DC thread, so I figured a thread for the (former) House of Ideas was in order...
Wanted to share this video about Captain Britain, who, growing up, was my favourite Marvel character besides Spider-man
The video deals with the origins of the character, focusing on Alan Moore's reboot, though I was introduced via Excalibur and only later went back and acquired the Moore run and the highly under-rated follow up to Moore's run by Alan Davis.
The character's story was essentially brought to a close in the final issues of Excalibur, a series that was suffering in the early 90s and was at least allowed to go out gracefully rather than be subjected to the grimdark reboot of it's contemporary X-titles. Effectively, Brian's marriage to Meggan and overcoming his alcoholism, while it didn't tie up every loose thread of the series' run, did grant the character something few Superheroes get, a finale that wasn't an imaginary future or alternate universe tale (maybe somewhat ironically as the character that introduced the multiverse to Marvel cannon). The character's been rther clumsily brought back a few times over the years, but one does have a complete epic running from Moore's run on the character (give or take some stuff after Davis left Excalibur that can be skipped) that stands alone and it would be nice to see reprinted in it's entirety some day.
Wanted to share this video about Captain Britain, who, growing up, was my favourite Marvel character besides Spider-man
The video deals with the origins of the character, focusing on Alan Moore's reboot, though I was introduced via Excalibur and only later went back and acquired the Moore run and the highly under-rated follow up to Moore's run by Alan Davis.
The character's story was essentially brought to a close in the final issues of Excalibur, a series that was suffering in the early 90s and was at least allowed to go out gracefully rather than be subjected to the grimdark reboot of it's contemporary X-titles. Effectively, Brian's marriage to Meggan and overcoming his alcoholism, while it didn't tie up every loose thread of the series' run, did grant the character something few Superheroes get, a finale that wasn't an imaginary future or alternate universe tale (maybe somewhat ironically as the character that introduced the multiverse to Marvel cannon). The character's been rther clumsily brought back a few times over the years, but one does have a complete epic running from Moore's run on the character (give or take some stuff after Davis left Excalibur that can be skipped) that stands alone and it would be nice to see reprinted in it's entirety some day.