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Captain Britain Profile
The first of six back-to-back interviews has gone up at Comic Book Resources, each one concentrating on one of the lead characters of Captain Britain and MI-13. This time it's Cap himself, complete with some lovely designs from Leonard Kirk, our awesome artist:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=13282
We'll have two more character profiles going up tomorrow, and daily after that. Isn't this exciting? Cheerio!
http://www.comicbookresources
We'll have two more character profiles going up tomorrow, and daily after that. Isn't this exciting? Cheerio!
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Captain Britain,
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Great. Looking forward to it.
Liking the concept sketches a lot. And am incredibly happy to see Cap back in the original Davis costume. I always found it kind of odd that on Excalibur they changed him out of that costume - when the union flag motif was practically making an 'X'! I thought went in for that in the X-Books...
Leonard Kirk seems to have a very solid grasp of that costume. Can't wait to see it coloured.
A good interview, Paul. Agreeing with pretty much everything you've said. Liked the rephrasing of Wisdom's thoughts on Cap, from the Wisdom series. Of course now everytime I see Cap lunging into battle, I'm going to be hearing Vaughan Williams...
And I'm Glad to hear you are very much in the 'Brian is NOT an alcoholic' camp. Ruddy Americans! Just because they had prohibition... mumble...
;D
All good stuff. This looks like one of the best ideas to come from Marvel in ages. Glad they kept the classic Cap logo.
Thanks, all. The alcohol thing is really about differing world perceptions of reasonable alcohol use. I think he avoided some problems during the Excalibur run by drinking, and then simply stopped when he was made to, in the way that alcoholics can't. Which means he can have a pint with his mates, but I think he'd feel too much of a responsibility to overdo it in public.
I totally agree, Paul. Brian's drinking binge period at the start of Excalibur came in response to one specific thing - as far as he knew his twin sister was dead. His parents having died years earlier (Although there are some that would believe Sir James knew that would happen, and had planned his demise) and having cut his Brother Jamie off from the family (Effectively leaving him to be tortured for the rest of his life, at the hands of the African warlords he'd angered through his slave trading), Betsy was all he had left in terms of family. Losing her hit him hard; and her being his twin probably doubly so.
But the drinking did stop, just as soon as his team-mates pointed it out to him. And it never really went any further.
The problem is, as you rightly point out, that the way in which alcohol is perceived in America is very different to here in the UK, and Europe. We have a long history of social drinking, and the experience of going to the pub with friends is very much part of our day to day lives.
In the States it's a very different attitude. Drinking is still very much thought of as either more of a solitary experience, or enjoyed only by a certain class of person. Weird as that may sound its certainly the way I read the attitude from my girlfriend's family, and from the times I've spent in the USA. It's an attitude partly crafted by a number of years of alcohol being illegal over there, I dare say.
Not surprising that when you see a character drinking in a US comic book that the assumption is made that this signifies a 'drink problem' rather than an isolated incident. I feel pretty certain that this is not what Claremont and Davis intended when they did those early issues of Excalibur.
No Captain Midlands in the team? Darn. :(
- Charles RB
Nice one, Paul. Captain Britain AND Leonard Kirk! Leonard did superb work for DC on JSA and especially Peter David's Supergirl but never seems to get any credit.
I presume with Spitfire on the scene we'll be seeing Union Jack at some point. That's going to be awkward with Cap, isn't it?
UJ: "Oh, right, so you're wearing the Union Jack then?"
CB: "Well, you know, Merlyn and that."
UJ: "Mm, it's just, you know, it's not like I can wear something different. I mean I'm even called Union Jack. Can't you go back to that red thing you used to wear, with the lion?"
CB: "Oh, not that. The mask was rubbish. You try sneezing in one of those things. Horrible. Can't you change your name? I mean, if anything you should be Union Flag unless you're at sea . . ."
(and so on)
That's how I see it, Sword. Wait and see, Charles. And indeed, Graham, that would be bad.
I'm assuming he warns his colleagues of danger by subtlely doing a handstand.
Don't give away the plot.
... actually I'm slightly worried now that his costume only appears to have the one red cross on it, which is in superior position so is presumably George's.
Does this mean he's not a superhero for all Britain but is his full name in fact only Captain Great Britain? Will Agent Wisdom be calling him 'Greaty' for short?
I like the way you think, SK.