theswordisdrawn

January 10, 2012 6:30 am This comment worries me greatly "I love the idea that every once in a while, this mild mannered guy who is trying to be noble and upstanding, gets drunk and goes nuts!" As such a long time Captain Britain reader I HATE when people mischaracterise the guy as a drunk based on a few scenes in early Excalibur, where Brian is drinking on the grief of having seen what certainly appeared to be the death of his twin sister shown on TV (X-Men: Fall of the mutants). This doesn't make him an alcoholic. At all.

September 8, 2011 4:07 am Wow. People are still buying this book?

August 30, 2011 10:12 am I for one am disappointed at the absence of the 'Thanos-Copter' http://www.the-isb.com/images/SSS-ThanosCopterBig.jpg

August 18, 2011 12:18 pm Or *slim even. Bloody iPhone.

August 18, 2011 12:17 pm @mikegraham6 - Given it's still Victor Gischler writing (much as though I wish it wasn't) I'd say the likelihood of Jubilee reverting from being a vampire is slime, unfortunately... :(

July 29, 2011 10:35 am As others have noted Captain Britain represents 'Britain' rather than just 'England'. Britain in ths case at least encompassing England, Scotland and Wales. Alnmost certainly Northern Ireland too. But not the Eire (The Republic of Ireland). Although, if serious shit went down in Dublin I seriously doubt he wouldn't cross over to help. :)

France also has heroes. Le Peregrine. And Les Heroes de Paris.

Mohannda, Wakanda's neighbor to the North, has Afrikaa - who debuted in the pages of Black Axe, in the 90s.

And I don't know if you'd call him a Hero exactly, but Mbangawi also has a champion in the form of Joshua N'Dingi. Better known as Doctor Crocodile - principly a Captain Britain character, but who also appeared in Warren Ellis' Astonishing X-Men.

There's also S.H.E. - The Super Heroes of Europe. Granted we haven't really seen them since Civil War, but we assume they're still active.

But I think the most interesting thing about ALL of these teams and characters is just how few of them have appeared in a big Global Event like Fear Itself...

I mean Iron Man was fighting n Paris, but the very Heroes who protect that city never showed. Most likely because somebody forgot they existed...

July 25, 2011 6:45 am I actually feel I'm being a little harsh with that loast comment. But genuinely I've bought a lot of Fraction books these past two yerars, hoping to see improvement. It hasn't really come. So I've decided to vote with my wallet, so to speak.

July 25, 2011 6:33 am I was actually pretty excited when these Defenders teaser adverts started appearing in books. I actually like the cast.

But I won't be buying this book.

And I won't be because of Matt Fraction. Through Uncanny X-Men, Thor and Fear Itself Fraction has disappointed time after time. He talk the talk in interviews, hypes the books in person a cons, paints this brilliant Epic picture of what he's going to do.

And then utterly fails to deliver the concept in panel.

It's easy to see how he talks the editors into giving him the chance to tell these stories, because he's great at publicity. But the concepts he hypes are clearly that little bit beyond him when he comes to writing a number of his stories.

I fear this will be more of the same. And so I won't be picking this up.

July 14, 2011 4:18 am And just when Fear Itself didn't seem like it could lose my attention any further... THIS!

The Mighty. Or as we might as well call them, as it really IS what they ARE, MORE AVENGERS!!!!!!!!!!

Or more specifically THE SAME OLD AVENGERS.

I'm bored Marvel. I'm tired of reading the same cast of characters rotated again. I've had enough.

As with 'The Worthy' these SHOULD have been a cast of characters power from the cross-section of the World. Instead it's the same old US heroes, in the same old US setting, dressed up to try and persuade the reader that this is a GLOBAL EVENT.

When it very much isn't.

I'd have prefered a more blanced and diverse line-up. Something more like:

Captain Britain
Storm
Doctor Strange
Iron Fist
Black Panther
Valkyrie
The Black Knight
Namor
Talisman

For variation and appeal.

July 8, 2011 10:19 am My only thought is that if Loeb's involved I don't really have any interest in reading it.

Burned one too many times over recent years...