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Leonard's SAS Spacesuit
Do please remember that the Cap Annual is out today in the USA, tomorrow in the UK, and that this blog will, as always, serve as the letters page. Leonard 'Captain' Kirk just delivered his final pages of (gorgeous) Captain Britain and MI-13 art, and with them, this design for something that shows up in #15, the spacesuit worn by members of the SAS for, ahem, use on the lunar surface...
Those of you who recall Scale Guy will appreciate as I do the little asides Leonard always adds to his designs.
Also, I answer reader questions about Marvel stuff over at X-Position:
My life at the moment is pretty groovy, all told. Editing the novel at high speed, following some big sorting out thoughts at the Wychwood Festival, and writing Namor/Norman Osborn confrontations, with Word Cup Twenty20 warm up matches on in the background, and lovely summer to wander about in when I want to take a break. We're off to the opening ceremony and first match of the World Cup proper on Friday. I'm in my 'get into shorts and out into sunshine as soon as possible, what do you mean I look like I fell out of a hedge?' phase, which will now last until September. Until next time, Cheerio.
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Awesome! That's made my morning.
...Built in Nintendo DS? Surely it'll be Grand theft Auto.
Fantastic - that'll do for my new work desktop wall paper.
Wow- and very reminiscent of Buzz Lightyear, as well.
Our review of the Annual is up here. Apologies for the fanboy-baiting. :)
The annual is both surprising (Meggan) and gorgeous (Brian).
Trying not to sound spoilerish, but are to take it that the two plots are somehow connected, ie Brian "moving on" and Meggan's independence?
In any case, I never, ever saw this one coming...and that's why this book really is the best book Marvel is producing. On that note, has there been talk of doing CB&MI13 specials, much like the last batch of Tennant Dr. Whos?
Thanks, all. Burnt: it's not that big a screen. Kelvin: thanks for the review. Craig: it's not really about Brian moving on, more about showing how his relationship with Meggan worked. And we're talking, but not in the short term.
Paul, was that a Lee and Herring reference in the Cricket story? The King of all Hobbies? Weak Lemon Drink?
It must be!
And here are my thoughts:
http://dangermart.blogspot.com/2009/06/captain-britain-and-mi13-annual-1.html
So, did the Six-Fingered Hand lose a digit? Demonic nose-picking?
Thank god the boots have the extra arch support. You don't want aching feet when fighting on the moon with their big f@#%ing gun.
Great job on the annual!
Thanks, all. Niam: of course! Thanks for the lovely review, Mart.
Loved the annual. Really bridged the gap from this series back to my favorite comics (Republished this wednesday as Excalibur Visionaries Alan Davis Vol 1 TP $21.24, by the by). Hopefully there will be a reunion between Brian in Meggan before the final issue, leaving them together again for whoever writes the next part of the story.
CB's my favorite Marvel character, but Namor the Sub-Mariner is a close second. He's the only Golden Age character who has truly had a story arc, because he's been allowed to live all these years out. He went from a disenfrancised and rebellious Angry Young Man when we first met him in '39, and over the course of those 40's stories he actually developed a bit, unusual for those days of comics, coming to appreciate the surface world, in no small part because of a girl.
Then when he was lost and returned in the Marvel Age, he had like a midlife crisis where he wanted to go back to killing all of us surface dwellers again. He'd sort of bounce back and forth between that mindset and a mellower dislike, content to hang out underwater. Constantly conflicted. Until it turned out (in the Byrne run) that he suffered from what amounted to bipolar disorder as a result of his biology. Too much time underwater or too much time on the surface, he'd get manic. Luckily he got on some good meds, and since then he's mellowed out quite a bit. He's still arrogant and all that, but he's wise enough now and he's been through enough that he doesn't flip out and try to kill anybody who looks at him funny. You get the sense in his recent appearances that he knows who he is these days, and has nothing to prove.
Although when he snapped that dude's neck like a twig in that issue of Captain America awhile back I pumped my fist like I was at a Rock Show.
Thanks, Rocko. I think from the sound of that you'll be interested in seeing what we do with him.
Interesting way to go with an annual, having both stories be character pieces. Was the 'heroes-paying-cricket' scene a response/homage to Chris Claremont's many 'heroes-playing-baseball' scenes, btw?
Beautiful design on the SAS spacesuit.
- Rob Hansen
Just read the annual. Really pleased to see it focussed on Meggan although was surprised that it wasn't self-contained. Any reason why this couldn't have been part of the regular series?
Thanks. Yes, indeed it was, Rob. And Bom: I don't really think it would have worked as such.
Ohh gumdrops.
Of the three comic stores in Brisbane, NONE had the CB & MI:13 annual, even my standing order didn't materialise a copy for me.
I won't ride you as hard about Namor as I did CB. Because he's more entrenched, but mainly because you've won my trust as a reader.
I got the Union Jack action figure currently hitting department stores, and I seem to have also intercepted a Top Secret document Maureen Raven intended to send to the "S.H.I.E.L.D. Director." Seems that there was a plot afoot (and underway?) to pit Union Jack against Blade?
Hmmmm....
Sorry to hear that, Daniel. And Rocko: I must get one of those. The note that goes with it sounds flatteringly into the material, but I don't know who wrote it. Since Maureen's named, it is of course of its time.
well, I don't know.
SPOILERS if you haven't read Wisdom or are waiting to get the figure to read this:
The file is a communication sent from Maureen Raven to the "Director of SHIELD," and the timeline is such that we can't be sure who that was when the information was sent. Maureen was a character who was introduced and died at the end of the Wisdom mini, she was an agent of MI-13 and we never saw her cross paths with either Union Jack or Blade in that series.
But in this communication, she expresses that despite the SHIELD director's dislike of UJ, he could be manipulated through his feeling for Spitfire to battle Blade and could be capable of killing him. SHIELD might want to eliminate Blade because he had inadvertantly brought back to life every vampire who ever existed (I'm not sure how or why or when this happened, but it did), and UJ would be a good candidate to do Blade in, because UJ had gone to great trouble to hunt down and destroy every Vampire in England.
And in the most recent issue of CB, UJ and Blade came to blows over Spitfire, just as the now long dead Maureen Raven had conspired.