11/20/2023 0 Comments Captain britain png![]() He’s then transformed into Captain Britain, with a superhero costume and a staff that he barely understands. Brian’s not a fan of using violence to solve his problems, so he chooses the amulet, which represents protection. He’s injured in a motorcycle accident, and is approached by two mysterious supernatural figures who offer him a choice: He can pick up either an enchanted sword or a magical amulet. In the opening story, Brian Braddock is a physicist who works in a nuclear research center. This starts off with the very origin of Captain Britain, penned by none other than Chris Claremont. That makes a majority of this content feel like a super fast read, despite the sheer volume of what’s collected here. As I mentioned earlier, the Captain Britain stories are the only ones printed in this omnibus, and each one of these stories is just seven pages. I should point out that the original run of Captain Britain appeared in a weekly magazine that printed several stories per issue. It’s important to know about the various versions of this if you are indeed seeking out the pre-2022 omnibus. I believe the Panini version was released in 2021. It’s important to note that the 2009 printing was an omnibus size and contained 688 pages, while there’s a Panini version of this omnibus released later on that is smaller page count (636 pages) and in size (10.63″ x 7.2″), and also lower in quality. If you’re curious what’s printed in the previous versions of this omnibus, I’ll give you the full list: If you want to know where that story fits in this reading order, people often put them after The Daredevils #11 (personally, I would place it after Mighty World of Marvel #13 myself). 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. As regular Lightgun Galaxy readers know, I’ve been reading X-Men comics from the very, very beginning.
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