![]() ![]() This collection features the team’s first stories, putting the Captain with Kitty Pryde, Nightcrawler, Rachel Summers and Captain’s own elvish girlfriend, Meggan. ![]() 1 – The Sword is Drawn : You can’t mention “Captain Britain” without mentioning Excalibur, the long-running squad of heroes based in the UK. The highlight of the book is Moore & Alan Davis’ story of Mad Jim Jaspers, a madman with a mad-on for setting the world with him at the center of it all. This collects Alan Moore’s entire run on the character, as well as co-creator Chris Claremont and even later work by Jamie Delano. Although created in stories prior to this, this tome collects the early 80s revamp that redefined everything from the costume to the setting and even the Captain himself. We’ve assembled four quintessential volumes that will get you up to speed with Captain Britain, touching on everything from Jaspers’ Warp to the Captain Britain Corps and even one of the most bizarre Marvel teams ever, TechNet.Ĭaptain Britain Omnibus : This is where the legend was forged. Captain Britain – aka Brian Braddock – last appeared in the short-lived Captain Britain & MI-13 series, and in the coming months he will appear in both Secret Avengers and Uncanny X-Force. The character went on to be a founding member of Excalibur, an X-Men splinter team that went on to over a hundred issues written by the likes of Claremont, Davis and even an early Warren Ellis. Although Chris Claremont and Herb Trimpe created him back in 1976, it wasn’t until Alan Moore and Alan Davis took over the character in the early 80s that the character evolved past being a default patriotic hero. Originally introduced to be a British equivalent to Captain America, Captain Britain became something more as time went on and creators added to his mythos. A magical super-hero with powers gifted from the magician Merlyn (you know, from Arthurian legend), Captain Britain became not just a hero for Queen & Country but for our entire world – and a few other worlds, if you’ve read his stories over the years. Although his name might seem to pigeon-hole him to the British Isles, Captain Britain is far more than that. ![]()
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