![]() ![]() This is every pre- Excalibur Captain Britain story with the exception of Captain America #305-306, which was included in the previous version of the omnibus. Marvel Super-Heroes #377 (six-page version).Super Spider-Man and Captain Britain (1976) #231-247.So, this collects every Captain Britain story from: In those cases, only the Captain Britain story is included in this volume. I should point out that in a majority of these series, Captain Britain was just one story among several ( Super Spider-Man and Captain Britain, for example, and The Daredevils). So let me walk you through everything that’s included in this book. There’s so much content in this book that the table of contents - even with it’s tiny little font - takes up three full pages. ![]() Yes, this tome contains 1,360 pages of Captain Britain comics from the 1970s and 1980s. 1 was a monster, but this one beats it by almost 100 pages. So let’s dive into the expanded 2022 version of the Captain Britain omnibus and see what it’s all about. This includes absolutely everything that’s collected roughshod in all of those other books I mentioned earlier (with one exception, which I’ll talk about in the next section). Thankfully, Marvel has made all of this so much easier to collect and read with an expanded version of the Captain Britain omnibus, released in 2022. There was also an omnibus printed back in 2009, which was shoddily reprinted by Panini more recently, but it doesn’t include the earlier part of the run. There are some trade paperbacks, but those are rare and expensive. While some of it’s on Marvel Unlimited, a lot of the U.K.-exclusive comics aren’t. The problem is that some of this material is really hard to find. I will read Exalibur, and I’ll read Captain Britain’s 1970s and 1980s runs first. So I answered “Yes” to both of those questions. Do I include Excalibur in this reading project? If so, should I read Captain Britain before I start Excalibur? I mean, this is a fairly complete readthrough, and it does seem like Captain Britain’s pre- Excalibur story is probably at least somewhat important. I’ve posted several reviews about this reading project already, so it’s certainly no secret that I’ve been reading this stuff.Īs I made my way deeper into the 1980s, though, I was faced with some big decisions. This reboot with the wit, pace and style of Doctor Who, Sherlock and Marvel’s Avengers, explores what it means to be a superhero in post-Brexit multicultural Britain.As regular Lightgun Galaxy readers know, I’ve been reading X-Men comics from the very, very beginning. In Bruges meets Whiskey Galore with a feminist twist.Ĭaptain Britain (TV series): Britain needs its own Marvel superhero series. With global family appeal it puts the popular legend on a whole new level.įifty Pink Elephants (Feature): Warring New York and London drug dealers and corrupt detectives confront the indomitable guile of remote Snowdonian villagers to retrieve 25 kilos of lost cocaine. ![]() Young Hood: (Feature/Pilot): Robin the Hood and his gang aged 12 are forced to fight for justice in a war-torn country seething with dangerous magic. Hybrids is X-Men meets Mr Robot for the tech-addicted. Together they battle a conspiracy that will lead them to the top of a country in chaos. Hybrids: We Are Human Too (TV series): Johnny – half computer – and Kestrella – her hand is her smartphone – are hybrids, victims of a new incurable disease that merges people with frequently-used gadgets. Other scripts in the same boat are children’s tv series Young Hood, Fifty Pink Elephants, a dark comedy thriller feature, and a spec Captain Britain tv script. He’s written a stage play, a few shorts, plus tv and film script adaptations of his prize-winning SF novel Hybrids, which he is trying to get into development. David co-wrote The Fastest Forward for Comic Relief, a feature film starring Jerry Hall, co-founded the London Screenwriters’ Workshop, and is co-author of Captain Britain and Doctor Who for Marvel Comics and the Doc Chaos comics and TV scripts commissioned by Limehouse Pictures. ![]()
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