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Cap #11 Preview
Here's the first few pages of the next issue of Captain Britain and MI-13, which shows just how action packed we're getting right now. The issue's out on Wednesday/Thursday, and, as always, this will be the letters page.
Until then, busy busy busy! Cheerio!
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Cor Blimey! Is it cap time again already? Great I'd only just managed to pick up #10.
I saw on Twitter that one of the team may be gone shortly. I can't think who! They all seem pretty indispensable right now and I'd happily read a whole issue devoted to any one of them. Which is quite rare for a team title. There's always one duffer or bore you don't quite gel with. I though that was going to be the case with Blade but nope.
I've been looking forward to that cover for some time but after reading #10 it strikes me that Dane and Faiza seem quite apart and distant from each other. Hopefully I'm just reading too much into it and it's just that way for compositional reasons.
roll on Thursday
nuff said
Chris
Now THAT'S a preview. I am incredibly psyched about this one.
For those of you who saw the banners myself and a couple of other at Millarworld we displaying last month I have done another for #11. I've just not gotten around to getting it up on my blog, yet.
You can find it here, though:
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/9470/vampirestate.gif
Love how you have Brian 'seeing' magic there, Paul. I can see that coming in quite handy.
Loved the preview, looking forward to this Thursday!
Thanks, all. Chris, you're indeed reading too much into that. Mr. Sword: thanks as always.
Another great issue, Paul. I really enjoyed the team interaction.
Paul: Just finished #11-- it was absolutely amazing. The best issue of the series so far-- and there have been some great issues in the series. The best book I read this week, and that's in a week when some really strong books (e.g. Scalped) came out.
Well done!
That issue was amazing. I swear at some points you can literally feel the team's upper lips stiffening.
This has been your best issue yet. It was absolutely incredible. Under your pen, Pete Wisdom is my favorite character in the MU right now. His lines 'literally a hangover from hell' 'say sir' 'council of war' were just so much fun. He's so badass, I love it. My favorite scene was when he just sticks his hand out, and someone passes him his shades. Thank you so much for making this such an incredible book and for making Pete such an incredible guy.
PLEASE dont kill him off!!!
Definitely the best issue yet.
It flowed fantastically, and I felt every moment in a way that I hadn't always with the first reading of other issues. Can't wait to see that *bad word* Tepes get his comeuppance...
Of course, I also feel that some of the captions in the Faiza/Dane sequence added more fuel to the fire of my theories about the upcoming death...:)
As Warren Jones once said: Out-stan-ding.
Wee review: http://dangermart.blogspot.com/2009/03/captain-britain-and-mi13-11-review.html
Is 'Palfrey Dancer' a reference to Joan Plowright film Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont? Possible links being old Excalibur writer Chris Claremont, and cast member Zoe Tapper, last seen as a vampire in Demons?
Thanks, all. I'm really very chuffed to get the I, Fanboy Pick of the Week again. Palfrey Dancer was literally a random codename. There's a computer programme the intelligence services have that picks random words, and I strive to be equally random.
Dear Mr. Cornell,
When I reread Amy's first word balloon in Cap #9, "I'm really doing this. It's really happening to me!" That reminds me of what Eleanor Vance said near the end of the original version of "The Haunting". I'm glad to learn that you have a blog, because I would like to know if the resemblance is a coincidence or intentional. Please respond.
Ann Nichols, 54 year-old former librarian and still subject to the rules of polite behavior expected of a lady that her late mother drilled into her when she was young.
Paul great issue!! loved the shout outs to Motormouth & Killpower, Master of Kung Fu and Captain Britain Weekly.
Two ultra-geeky questions:
1.Is the Vampire infiltrator meant to look like David Tennant?
and
2. Why are you using Dracs goateed appearance from his post-Tomb of Dracula (mainly Uncanny X-Men) appearances? in ToD he had a cool pencil moustache -like Immonen draws him on the covers. Its a small thing but is it a conscious choice or just a reference thing?
Anon: I've seen the movie and like it, but if that was in there it wasn't a conscious thing. Val: thanks, entirely Mike's choice, and again, that's down to Leonard, though I did specify that I didn't want the full beard.
Hey, I'm not too clued up on backstory(previous to CB MI 13).
Who is the man with blonde hair concerned for Jac?
If anyone would like to vote in CBR's poll-Which major cast member of Paul (don't get too attached) Cornell's CB & MI13 will die-here is the link:
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?p=8575473#post8575473
(any pub is good pub)
Who is the man with blonde hair concerned for Jac?
Union Jack (he appeared in costume in #5), her ex-boyfriend (which relationship I always thought was really creepy, because he's wearing her father and brother's costume and was a friend of her son's when she was an old woman).
That'd be Union Jack, Max. Joe Chapman. He and the Lady J were involved briefly, but it fizzled. As you can imagine it might with your dead buddy's mom.
In the original Byrne story in Captain Britain that introduced the new UJ in the 80s I got the gist that he was possibly gay and Jac's son Kenny was his boyfriend. That might've been interesting.
my favorite part of this issue was the closed rank meeting. Thing's are getting choppy, so everybody tightens up, puts on suits, and have a moment of sanity to plan the course of action.
My second favorite part was CB reaching out, grabbing a magic spell, in ripping it apart. I like the way that his powers these days aren't the typical super strength/flight/invulnerability. Cool.
This book is the most fun every month. Please don't keep killing characters off and bumming me out. Brubaker's great and I'm loving Daredevil, but every issue really harshes my mellow.
Thanks for helping each other out, there. In many ways, I'm afraid, Rocko, it's my job to harsh your mellow, and then mellow your harsh.
Anon/Ann thanks for the shout out to the original Haunting, that still scares the heck out of me - I try to watch it at least once a year.
And I'm with Rocko, I was sure Joey was Ken's boyfriend back in the day.
Thanks alot IslandLiberal and Rocko Jerome.
Yeah i read about Jac and Union Jack were together in Defenders i think..
Great Issue
The set-up is great and I don't know what will happen next, mainly due to the un-cliched writing.
thanks again.
Sorry
Got another question.
In Dane's last appearence in comics before mi 13, did he have a fake Ebony blade then, or is the whole fake ebony blade story created for this comic to explain why Black Panther had one aswel?
also
Why did the writer(s) of Black Panther want to give the Black Panther the Ebony blade?(if anyone knows)
thanks
Well Paul, I guess as long as you mellow the harsh back to the happy medium I'll be OK. I'm very delicate, you see.
I don't know the answer to Max's next questions, but I'm also curious. What books did i miss?
Also, I said "In the original Byrne story in Captain Britain that introduced the new UJ..." I meant to say Captain AMERICA.
Would've been interesting if Union Jack was gay, wouldn't it? Since you already had a fairly established character (albeit a new guy under the mask) who was a badass, and had character traits that didn't scream "homosexual." In fact, a working class roughneck. I wonder how people would've reacted.
What else can I say, that hasn't already been said? Probably my favourite issue so far.
Cap's (can we call him that?) method of taking out vampires is brilliant- punching the heart clean out. Nice.
I like Fazia's codename (guess you didn't go with "taking-things-apart-girl"). Question- is dane giving her any sword lessons? If she's unwilling to kill she should at least learn some combat teqniques if she's weilding excalibur.
All in all- amazing.
-Craig
Thanks, all. Max: you'd have to ask Reggie Hudlin, the writer of Panther, about that. It kind of feels like a cool thing to do, mind you. About Joe and Ken: I asked my continuity guy about this, and you guys are reading way too much into 'wrestling team' and 'art school'. It wasn't the aim of the original creators, and in the same issue there are various heterosexual indicators. I'd like to create more gay characters for Marvel (though I think a gay writer should get the chance before me), but making Joe into one just doesn't chime with what was there before.
so it was dracula who switched the swords and left the real ebony blade in Iraq?
Is there two Ebony blades about aswel?, as i read one from a parralel universe exists.
I don't see any reason why you should leave gay characters to gay writers. I'm gay, it's not a defining characteristic. Just write people.
Heck, Allan Heinberg created plenty of nonm-gays for Young Avengers and no one complained.
Just read it, and Motormouth shows up? God it's sad just how much I missed Harley and Julius. I guess it's too much to hope for a Mys-Tech reference?
Yeah I loved Marvel UK a tad too much.
Max: it was Dracula who ordered the swords to be switched. His vampire associates, doing that, ended up on the wrong end of the aforementioned vampire hunters, and that, via the Vatican's own 'Black Knight', was how the Panther ended up with the Ebony Blade. We're done with all such issues now. If there's another Ebony Blade somewhere, well, it can just stay put. Mart: I agree that there's no reason why not, and don't mind when it is done, if done well (I'm doing my best with Faiza, for instance), but I'd hesitate to write Captain America because there are *lots* of Americans who could do it better, and prefer Brits to write Captain Britain, because sometimes if you're steeped in a culture it's easier to do it than when you're doing it second hand. Ah, Keiron, wait and see!
Thanks Paul.
I'm just abit of a continuity freak.
Ann Nichols writes:
Thank you very much for answering my question, Mr. Cornell. I agree with you about having British writers for Captain Britain, even if this Yank can't always understand the dialogue even after trying to look it up online.
You're welcome, Matt. I try to watch the original "Haunting" once a year, too. (I recall describing the remake as a bastard offspring of "The Haunting" and "The Legend of Hell House" that did neither parent justice.)