tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510941869814453320.post7648567443182900468..comments2021-08-22T22:44:31.813+01:00Comments on It Came From Darkmoor...: For one last time... IT'S CAP WEDNESDAY!Mark Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13499212500786272512noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510941869814453320.post-1393945586595685472009-07-30T22:04:09.970+01:002009-07-30T22:04:09.970+01:00I just loved the cameos. Dark Angel (back from spa...I just loved the cameos. Dark Angel (back from space!) and Death's Head (just back!). Lovely. i'll miss the title as it was jolly fun, and sometimes, thats all you need.Simon Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00660129909470443597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510941869814453320.post-89541694206967520092009-07-22T23:19:24.530+01:002009-07-22T23:19:24.530+01:00I'm not sure that I can entirely agree with th...I'm not sure that I can entirely agree with that, Mark. <br /><br />I think that a big part of the problem remains that there really aren't that many Non-English British Marvel superheroes. Characters in general, yes. But not super-powered characters.<br /><br />We got Scotsman Alistaire Stuart on the team, but actual Scottish/Welsh/Northern Irish superheroes? There aren't many.<br /><br />Wolfsbane (Rhane Sinclair) is Scottish, but she was already claimed by the X-Books. As was Pixie, the Welsh member of Kyle and Yost's New X-Men.<br /><br />Yes, there have been many variations of alternate Captain Britains from other worlds (Caledonia, Captain Cymru and others) but Chris Claremont pretty much killed them all before the series began. All that exists of the once infinite Captain Britain Corps now is a handful of Captains led by Saturnyne and Albion. But even had not perished, they're not a recognisable cast. <br /><br />More diversity in the cast was something which Paul Cornell certainly seemed to be considering through responses to reader questions on his own Blog. It would be interesting to see who might have joined the team, and what other parts of the UK would have been visited, given time.<br /><br />Sadly, it was not to be.<br /><br />Maybe another time. At least we got out of London, this time.Mark Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13499212500786272512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5510941869814453320.post-21709660180549830132009-07-22T17:56:46.080+01:002009-07-22T17:56:46.080+01:00I liked it, but even I'm not surprised it didn...I liked it, but even I'm not surprised it didn't last. I loved the WISDOM mini. They killed the best character from that series within the first few issues, and even I found Cornell's vision of how to do a "British" superteam parochial and backward-looking as all get out. After the death of John The Skrull, for Cornell, British = English, and a decidedly pre-The Beatles version of England at that. Pimms, Cricket, stiff upper lip, blitz spirit and all that. What the hell does that have to do with the UK most of us are living in now? To a reader in Glasgow, Cardiff or Belfast? Then bearing that in mind, how many units do you then think it could ever shift in the solipsistic U.S. of A.? <br /><br />Cornell is great at so much: plot, character, mood, so he'll get on well at Marvel. But this seems like a litany of missed opportunities to me. Give the reins of Captain Britain to a writer who knows the complexities of the British identity, and a desire to explore that, like Pete Milligan, with his working class London Irish background, or the Glaswegian Mark Millar. Or Garth Ennis, a man who was born at the literal bleeding edge of the British identity crisis. Now that'd be funny.Mark Kardwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17791352096505994671noreply@blogger.com