I've read Claremont's Excalibur and I really liked him. Where's the best place to start reading Captain Britain?I remember hearing that X-Men Archives collects the Captain Britain stuff from the Daredevils without any of the reprints but that's pretty much all I know about it
>>147127198hes wearing a red nose because in britain we have red nose day which is about childrens charities.thats all i can help you with
>>147127198You might be able to find the Captain Britain Omnibus still about, if you're into omnibuses.His early material in his own title is alright Bronze Age fluff. Basically bog-standard and you can tell nobody who worked on the title at the time especially cared for it. You can skip the black & white backup stories with the Black Knight, they're a massive slog barely focused on Captain Britain. Once the character gets put into Daredevils and Dave Thorpe comes along CB finally gets truly interesting (and also a redesign), and then of course Alan Moore comes in after Thorpe. This is when the multiverse aspect of the character comes in. Moore picks up from Thorpe's run fairly nicely, despite doing his standard "blow up everything I don't like about the character in my first issue" bit, and between the two of those writers they make for some fantastic comics.Ah hell, I just found out Dave Thorpe died last April.
>>147127332So I can basically skip the first volume which from the looks of things is by Claremont and go straight into the stuff from Daredevils?What about Alan Davis's run which I think is the second volume? Is that worth reading? If so should I do it before or after Daredevils?
>>147127234>childrens charities.We have these in my country as well
>>147127399>So I can basically skip the first volume which from the looks of things is by Claremont and go straight into the stuff from Daredevils?Yeah, I guess. At least read the origin story and maybe also the first appearances of Betsy/Slaymaster.>What about Alan Davis's run which I think is the second volume? Is that worth reading? If so should I do it before or after Daredevils?That's not so complicated. Just read them in publication order, obviously.IIRC Alan Davis's run is short but fairly good. Very much a precursor to the ideas he'll explore in Excalibur.
>>147127465do you have a special day where everyone wears red noses and theres a big event on tv for literal red clown noses? if so thats cool.
>>147127564nta but yes we do have Red Nose Day here
>>147127616thats pretty cool, i always thought it was just some autistic thing britain did
>>147127525Sweet thanks anon. Is there anything worth reading from this side of the turn of the millennium?
>>147127198wish he had the same moderate success his sister had in the Capcom games
>>147127620It is, we just stole it
>>147127712oh thats fair if youre australien, i thought you where canadian kek
Also consider checking out the black knight serial that was originally printed in hulk comic. It's around 50 black and white 2-3 page comics covering the gap between CB visiting the US and the character being relaunched, but if you like classic fantasy and the merlin lore of CB, I think this is pretty much where that started.The art is really great too.
>>147128137And by started, I really mean that the otherworld stuff started to play a bigger role. If you read the captain britain titles from the krakoan era (with betsy), you see that they tried to do some fantasy stuff but it doesn't work very well (particularly talking about the titles towards the end of the era). I really didn't like how they handled merlin's character which was the "progressive" straw that broke the camels back for me.
>>147127198Captain Britain isn't some obscure nobody, it's funny how he hasn't made it into any of the adaptations except one episode of the superhero show.
>>147128206He's tough to figure out since he is related to X-Men, but not directly one.
>>147128206Yeah but he's not an A-lister either. And a lot of his stuff comes bundled with reprints of other comics because that's just what bongs did back then
>>147128137Is it collected anywhere that's convenient to read?
>>147127198There was a series from Marvel UK that got reprinted as a miniseries that I can't remember the title of. That's really the best one to read.
>>147128343I'm a burger and, at least to the nerds who care to know, he's known enough from his x-men appearances, spider-man connections, his scattered appearances in other books, I can say Excalibur was pretty popular over here. I read Excalibur back in the 90s. Some of the marvel UK label books made it onto shelves back in the day, but I couldn't say if they had any traction. The comic magazines, as the brits tend to do, never made it here, as far as i know.
from last weeks Brevoort newsletteri get some of what hes saying. How would you make it work bros>do you have any thoughts on the Captain Britain Corps? Their whole purpose is to patrol the multiverse and timestream, yet they’re often absent from events that seem tailor-made for them.>I think the big problems with the Captain Britain Corps are multi-faceted, Kevin. First off, their concept originates in a strip that wasn’t published in the US and so it hasn’t been read by a wide swath of creators. Secondly, it’s built around a relatively mid-list character in Captain Britain. Even just getting the Captain involved in stories isn’t the easiest thing in the world, let alone a bunch of multiversal doppelgangers of them. And thirdly, the concept just sounds way too much like the much better established Green Lantern Corps (but in multiverses rather than space sectors) which is I expect very much what Alan Moore was thinking when he dreamed it up. You’d really need something to make Captain Britain a hell of a lot more popular and central than they are at the moment to front-burner the Corps in this manner.
>>147127198I started with the Thorpe/Moore run. It's great.
Thanks for the recs guys. I'm the kind of autist that wants to read stuff from the start where possible so my plan is to read as follows>Captain Britain Omnibus (first volume, spider-man stuff, and most of the Black Knight strips)>Rest of the Black Knight strips (found a good collection on get-comics)>X-Men Archives (Thorpe/Moore/Davis)>Captain Britain Vol 2 (Davis)And that should put me around what I'm familiar with with Excalibur
>>147128351the fan made jaspers warp/crooked world is better than the xmen archive. its been a while since reading them, but the fanmade version was ordered differently. might have had a few extra pages
>>147129708>the fan made jaspers warp/crooked worldIs it in black and white?
>>147129708Thanks for the tip, anon>>147129757From what I can tell the fan made thing he's talking about is the Thorpe/Moore/Davis stuff collected better than X-Men Archives (although it does use a lot of X-Men Archives). I did find what looks to be a good collection of all the black and white strips from Hulk if you want it though
>>147128351I ended up reading them in the recent captain britain omnibus which has all the stuff from his first appearance until right before excalibur. Aside from that you could try looking for Hulk Comic/Incredible Hulk Weekly from 1979 on some of the usual pirate sites. The relevant issues are 1, 3-55, and 57-63, but a bit of those can be skipped since they dedicate some filler to retelling both CB and Black Knight's origin
Also sort of on the subject of excalibur, what are some other oddball non-limited series that have ended up on the more obscure side? There was a Power Pack crossover in some issue of excalibur classic and I realized that I never would have known about that series in my surface level explorations. Clandestine also comes to mind since it was an Alan Davis series although it got cancelled pretty quickly.
>>147127198The Moore stuff was pretty great
>>147127198I've only ever read the Moore run
>>147129518The Captain Britain Omnibus should have everything relevant to the character pre-Excalibur, IIRChttps://www.marvel.com/comics/collection/95252/captain_britain_omnibus_trade_paperbackIf you can't find a physical edition then you should be able to find it digitally, possibly even in some of the Win'O threads archived here
Alan Moore's story is a lighter version of what he came up with with Miracleman. Now I notice he was making Dr. Who references
>>147131860Yeah I looked into it and it has almost everything for pre-Thrope/Moore, it just cuts off a few of the Black Knight strips for some reason so I'm gonna finish that off after.I've got a plan now
