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This was launched as a tie-in to the big Secret Invasion event, so it starts with Skrulls invading the UK, and all the local superheroes fighting them. Intros are great. This is how the Black Knight looks in my head, and vampire-Spitfire is probably the best character in the book

So, now that Wisdom is out of the way (yesterday's thread - https://t.co/UE5GoBZyGv) it's time for my favourite comic of two-thousand-and-whatever-year-that-was...
Captain Britain and MI-13 by Paul Cornell and Leonard Kirk (and other contributors too).
A thread -

Giants and fairies and Captain Britain all show up to help beat the Martians and it's great.
Love the juxtaposition of "grown men weep at the sight of him" followed immediately by "You tosser!"

There's a lot of social commentary here that is still relevant 12+ years later, like how a misogynist white guy obsessed with the past is the baddie that lets the monsters in because they get in his head and tell him he's special.

The split-page storytelling technique is so uniquely "comics." You can try to do stuff like this in film, but it just doesn't work as well.

And it's got Shang-Chi in it. Probably not a good one to reference for the movie, but they could do worse.
(always tempted to listen to the "soundtrack" songs Cornell lists in this issue)

"Crystals are true?... I have to apologise to a bunch of tossers. For that, I blame you."

I love Peter Wisdom's team in this series. All original creations for it. Punk Tinkerbell, John Lennon if he was an alien Skrull, and an old racist who misses WWII. Cornell was allowed to go full self-deprecating British satire and it's great.

So @j_partridgeIII keeps bringing up 'Captain Britain and MI-13' by Paul Cornell and Leonard Kirk, which made me want to read it again.
But if I'm gonna do that, first I have to read the Cornell/Hairsine/Garcia 'Wisdom MAX' series, because I said so, dammit.

@AgentM