Captain Britain Omnibus

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Both are very fine examples of Claremont's own particular tastes in fantasy and phantasmagoria, elevated - as so much of the Omnibus is - by Davis' art.

I adored this run of Captain Britain, and now I never ever want to read anything else from this character again. Captain Britain, it began when the Merlin of Arthurian myth transported him to a world sideways to his own, an alternate reality on the brink of annihilation. At this point Davis isn't quite the artist he'll go on to be, but he's still fantastic and although the early issues with Dave Thorpe and Paul Neary are good, you can't help thinking they're kind of just making it up as they go, with no real long term plan. Yet both of these runs birthed something extraordinary into the comic lexicon, for a fleeting handful of years. Understanding Captain Britain as a fantasy character more than a superhero is key to what makes him work.And when the events that destroyed that world begin to repeat themselves on his own, Captain Britain faces a destiny that he cannot avert.

This omnibus begins right after the “Siege of Camelot” epic; Merlin sends Brian Braddock back to his universe, and gives him some new threads and powers. Nothing, and I do mean nothing will ever touch the stories, the structure, the sentiment that Moore, Delano and David gave us. He has also written a novel, Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD. The Alan Moore and Alan Davis penned stories are the aforementioned gems, the rest ranges from decent to dear-God-let-this-end-already. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.So, this book is like a snapshot of a culture when it was still possible to be anti-facist, patriotic and good, a self-questioning fighter against intolerance, all at the same time, before cultures started to divide.