Captain Britain and MI-13

[chamber-music]

Mr Sinister is my favourite British bad guy in Marvel and the Shade in DC.

 

[Manic]

Sinister is one of those characters who always frustrates me whenever he's adapted to animation or a video game. They never use his English accent. European mad scientists sound so much cooler and a hell of a lot more evil. No offense.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

My favorite British hero is probably Captain Britain. I like all the Arthurian ties.

 

[chris moore]

Absolutely - same here!

 

[The Englishman]

I love Mr Sinister
My favorite hero was Chamber before Mday. I dont really like what they made him look like and the new power he was given, so my new favorite British hero is Captain Britain. Also i fogot Spider-Woman is English.

 

[Dread]

I'm embarrassed to say I was only able to read the final issue today. My god, I loved this series. It was great. Sad to see it go. Loved the final page.

Least you read it when you did. Yeah, shame it only lasted 15-16 issues (15 issues and an annual, which was more or less tied tightly with the core story anyway). Still, it's the best that Capt. Britain, Blade, and Black Knight have gotten in years, and it was appreciated.

 

[Anubis]

I thought Sinister was French.

 

[NDX]

Pete Wisdom was the reason I began reading CB&MI13, but the portrayal of Captain Britain in it made him an instant favorite. It also made me go back and pick up the first 2 Tomb of Dracula essentials.


It's a real shame this got cancelled, even forgotten MarvelUK characters like Killpower got a decent cameo in the end of the series.

 

[deathshead2]

Captain Britain and MI-13 is what got me into buying back issues of Excaliber. Its some great stuff, a little confusing though as I don't know what happened to the x-men that Kitty keeps bringing up.

 

[Manic]

At the time Kitty joined Excalibur, it was assumed the X-Men (save the original 5, who were in X-Factor) were all dead. In reality, they were hiding out in Australia.

 

[deathshead2]

At the time Kitty joined Excalibur, it was assumed the X-Men (save the original 5, who were in X-Factor) were all dead. In reality, they were hiding out in Australia.

You know what issues?

 

[Dread]

I thought Sinister was French.

Nope, born in London, England, U.K. citizen. Least according to Marvel's latest handbooks.

 

[Manic]

You know what issues?

According to UncannyXMen.net, it the X-Men died in Uncanny X-Men #227.

 

[deathshead2]

Thanks. I'll try to find that.

 

[chamber-music]

I thought Sinister was French.

Its the goatee isn't it?

Only French villains I can think of are Exodus and Batroc the Leaper

Have Exodus and Dane ever appeared togther after Dane left guards to guard Du Paris crypt?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't think so. They first met in terms of publishing history in the "Blood Ties" crossover between the X-Men and the Avengers, I believe, but obviously the Garrington/Du Paris stuff takes place before that in continuity.

 

[Jumpin' Jack]

I think one of my favourite is maybe Union Jack or Captain Britian

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Its the goatee isn't it?

Only French villains I can think of are Exodus and Batroc the Leaper

Have Exodus and Dane ever appeared togther after Dane left guards to guard Du Paris crypt?

The Grey Gargoyle is French too. He was a lowly chemist in Paris before he accidentally gained the power to turn stuff to stone. I'm reading Journey into Mystery issues now and I keep reading him with the voice of the candlestick dude from Beauty and the Beast.

 

[The Englishman]

I wish this book was still around. They should have renamed the title Avengers: UK or something....

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Probably would've sold better.

 

[Manic]

Anything with "Avengers" or "X-" in the title is pretty much guaranteed to sell at Marvel. Except Young X-Men.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I always hear about how good Young X-Men and Academy X and all that stuff was, but I can never feel bad that they got s***-canned because they're associated with Kyle and Yost. They've done unspeakable things to Thor.

 

[BrianWilly]

They've done unspeakable things to the Young X-Men and Academy X. You're probably thinking of "New Mutants vol 2," written by DeFillppis and Weir, which turned into "New X-Men" at some point, and then was taken over by Yost and Kyle. Before they came on, that book was excellent.

Not that Kyle and Yost were completely horrible writers, and yes they did write some good stuff for the series when they were on, which you can read all about once you get past the gratuitous character slaughter. Literal character slaughter, not the figurative kind (though there was some of this as well). They killed off something like 2/3rds of the entire regular cast that DeFillppis and Weir introduced.

 

[Manic]

New X-Men: Academy X was written by Stephanie Weir and Nunzio DeFilippis. Kyle & Yost took over starting with Decimation (the title shortened to New X-Men vol. 2, though all of the trades say New X-Men: Childhood's End), and they assassinated characters left and right. And when I say "assassinated," I mean one girl got a sniper shot to the skull, about 40 kids got blown up in a bus, two characters bowed out and left off-panel, and Cannonball & Husk's little brother betrayed his classmates to the Purifiers whilst slowly killing himself. All of these kids (well, only one of the kids on the bus) were main characters during Weir & DeFilippis' run.

After Messiah CompleX, New X-Men vol. 2 was cancelled because the X-Men were supposedly "disbanded" following Charles' "death." A few months later, Young X-Men launched written by Marc Guggenheim. The first 5 issues were mediocre at best (even Guggenheim apologized for those issues, as he was put in a position where he had to write a story that took place before he could establish a status quo-- something he couldn't do until Uncanny X-Men #500 moved the franchise to San Francisco), but issues #6-12 were just great. The new character Ink got on my nerves at first, but Guggenheim made up for it by kinda/sorta killing him off.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I was thinking of New X-Men. I mentioned Academy X because I knew Guggenheim wrote Young X-Men and I wasn't sure what the title of the one Yost and Kyle pooped out wrote was.