Captain Britain and MI-13

[Manic]

Damn. Now who do I go to? The Skrull Stones or the Skrull Monkees?

 

[squeekness]

LOLs. Skrull Monkees, def.

 

[The Englishman]

Skrull Who. Keith Moon Skrull......

 

[Dread]

John the Skrull was fun and quirky but his replacement was Blade and I do like how Cornell is handling him. He works so much better alongside a team of characters who aren't simply canon fodder for Dracula, like a lot of "vampire slayer teams" he has been on. Granted, you could argue this was true in the 90's when he was a part of the "Midnight Sons" team alongside more or less all of Marvel's supernatural heroes at the time.

 

[squeekness]

I don't know that John was replaced by Blade per se. I think they figured that there should be no skrulls after the invasion and poor John got the axe.

 

[JewishHobbit]

I think that's when I started thinking a little lesser of the book. I felt that John really was an interesting character and he quickly became my favorate. Then he died and Blade came in, who I just don't care about, and so I started to care less and less about the book. I'm still buying it but it's on the fence of being dropped. I typcally don't care about vampire stories but the current one has been good.

 

[Dread]

The YOUNG AVENGERS have a half Kree/Skrull member and the RUNAWAYS have a Skrull member, I guess Cornell didn't want to follow the trend with new teams. Even SHE-HULK had a Skrull partner after a while.

Me? I've had enough of Skrulls, so I didn't mind the break. Plus, Cornell was playing with the idea of the invading Skrulls being so extreme to their beliefs that they were willing to kill even their own kind if they didn't share the same feelings. Likely an allegory to some extreme Muslim terrorists who will kill fellow Muslims if their version of Islam beliefs differ.

 

[Manic]

I just had a thought. Even if the Skrull Beatles were still alive, Pete's wish would've had them treading in the English Channel. Skrulls are just plain incapable of entering the UK now.

 

[Dread]

Indeed. Good attention to detail.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The YOUNG AVENGERS have a half Kree/Skrull member and the RUNAWAYS have a Skrull member, I guess Cornell didn't want to follow the trend with new teams. Even SHE-HULK had a Skrull partner after a while.

Me? I've had enough of Skrulls, so I didn't mind the break. Plus, Cornell was playing with the idea of the invading Skrulls being so extreme to their beliefs that they were willing to kill even their own kind if they didn't share the same feelings. Likely an allegory to some extreme Muslim terrorists who will kill fellow Muslims if their version of Islam beliefs differ.

Dude, that's an allegory to every religious extremist ever. Falter in your devotion to the faith or the cause or whatever and you get murdered by your so-called brothers.

 

[Dread]

Dude, that's an allegory to every religious extremist ever. Falter in your devotion to the faith or the cause or whatever and you get murdered by your so-called brothers.

Fair enough. Just the Islamic stuff is the current religious extremist stuff that would be relevant, especially in the U.K. which has seen it's own spate of problems in that regard. I am sure it is no accident that Faiza was created for the book, as a counterpoint to that kind of stuff. Which, BTW, was effective; "Excalibur" is one of the better new heroines of the last year or so. She's an actual character, not a body on a cover.

Religious fanatics of any creed can create the same hellish results.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I loved that Faiza's faith channeled through Excalibur was one of the most potent weapons against the vampires in the last issue. Vampire mythology limits faith to the Christian variety a bit too often for my liking.

 

[Dread]

Agreed, it was a good way to play it. Faith is faith after all. It is good when writers don't play with the same old stereotypes and come up with original stuff.

 

[Anubis]

So you can beat a vampire to death with the Quran now?

 

[Dread]

If you believe in it enough. It is the faith of the user that is deadly to a vampire, not the object itself. Of course, more powerful vampires can resist that sort of things more. But, the gap between Dracula and his vampire underlings is vast.

I always wondered what would happen to a cult leader if they believed in their hooey enough, but it wasn't a mainstream religion. Like would a vampire be shunned by Tom Cruise's devotion to Xenu? Or if someone really believed that Optimus Prime was the master of the universe enough, could a Transformer toy hurt a vampire?

 

[Manic]

I can see a vampire getting shoed away by a copy of Battlefield Earth.

 

[Anubis]

Ha!

 

[RockSP]

So you can beat a vampire to death with the Quran now?

Sure, why not? I remember Kitty's star of david necklace hurting Dracula way back in his X-men appearance.

 

[The Englishman]

Is Psylocke back in her British body over in Uncanny X-Men?? I hope she makes an apperance or two in this book....

 

[chamber-music]

I must be the only person who never cared for John the Skrull

 

[TheCorpulent1]

He was a fun, kitschy concept, but I had no attachment to him. I never read the Wisdom mini.

 

[squeekness]

The Wisdom mini was good. I really liked it and it was my first taste of Wisdom and these folks. I only picked up MI 13 because of that mini.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I learned of Wisdom in the old Excalibur comics and I hated him. MI-13 is making me warm up to him a bit, but he's still kind of a jerk.

 

[squeekness]

He is a jerk. I guess that's why I like him.

 

[Manic]

I think his being a jerk works in MI-13 because he's not "that guy." He's not the dissenting a-hole of the team who rolls his eyes every time the team leader opens his mouth. This time, Pete's the man in charge, and his abrasive personality makes him come off as the gruff boss-man. And it works for him. Pete's awesome.