Yeah I know, it's the nature of the beast and I never bought a single issue of this ongoing, so I didn't help it at all (I think I thought it was just going to be another pointless event crossover for Secret Invasion at the time) but I just bought and read the first two volumes of the trades over the weekend andMAN!This sh*t was good!
Great, interesting lineup of characters, great writing and good art, and the stories are much different than anything else Marvel is putting out there right now. What a sleeper this was, too bad it got canceled...
I don't want to give too much away for those who haven't read it yet (seriously, check out volume 1 at least, if you can) but I love what they did with Cap Britain. I'll just say this: it was about time and I hope it sticks. Pete Wisdom is great as always, imo, as I have always been fond of this mutant, James Bond hybrid that's always been a little rough around the edges. I always enjoy when the Black Knight (Dane Whitman) shows up, he was kind of a personal childhood favorite of mine back in his Avengers days, and the new demeanor Paul Cornell gives him does wonders for the character. Spitfire is a very cool and interesting character that I wasn't very familiar with before this series, but she definitely has a very dark side to her which is in perfect contrast with the levity she brings to the battlefiled in general. Faiza is one of the new characters that debuts in this series and she is a little reminiscient to me of the early days of Kitty Pryde with the X-Men. She is also somewhat of a superhero fangirl and brings a little extra humor to the book. To top it all off, MI: 13 has a heroic skrull on their team, who inexplicably (maybe this is explained in some other Pete Wisdom series I have yet to encounter) chooses to remain in the form of John Lennon. If you like volume 1 enough, be sure to pick up volume 2 and you will be rewarded with Blade! He joins the team and immediately the sparks begin to fly, in more ways than one.
I know it's too late for this series, but I hope this team sticks around and pops up in some other ongoings, minis, or events...as long as Marvel doesn't disband them completely or pretend it never happened. It really is an awful shame though and I am going to miss this book and this team very much. I hope they get used in the future, maybe run into one of Marvel's mainstays that is on a mission in Europe.
Any other fans of this group, any of its members, or their comic here? Any thoughts, lamentations, or comments?
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