tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post2788075452233248878..comments2024-03-14T10:04:19.356-07:00Comments on NOT A HOAX! NOT A DREAM!: CAPTAIN BRITAIN PART SEVEN - MOORE & DAVISMatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-75468088310714147062014-07-01T09:33:48.894-07:002014-07-01T09:33:48.894-07:00I've had some harsh words for Alan Moore in th...I've had some harsh words for Alan Moore in the past (described in depth in my post titled "Alan Moore"), but I do have to give him credit for his work here. His Captain Britain is mostly a very good read.<br /><br />Blam -- "<b>I must say that having just read your posts helped me follow it. 8^)</b>"<br /><br />Great, I'm glad to be of assistance! It's been nearly a year since I read these stories and wrote these posts; it's interesting to go back and see them now. It's a weird feeling to have all my stray thoughts committed to the eternity of the internet.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-39374818482435848172014-06-29T21:10:18.064-07:002014-06-29T21:10:18.064-07:00@Teebore: // sounds a little bit like X-Men #138, ...<br>@Teebore: <i>// sounds a little bit like </i>X-Men<i> #138, when we got to see Byrne draw some of the X-Men's Silver Age adventures // </i><br /><br />I loved that. Byrne did that at some earlier point too, like when Jason Wyngarde is interior-monologuing about manipulating Jean with those panels of her as Jean Grey, Marvel Girl, Phoenix, and the Black Queen. I think Byrne is/was particularly good at it, apart from how just plain neat it is to see beats of earlier stories rendered uniformly in the current artist's style.<br /><br />@Matt: <i>// Davis does another recap of Cap's history when he takes over solo plotting duties, though I don't recall it being as in-depth as this one is. // </i><br /><br />I read that this morning. We get about four pages of Brian summing things up for Betsy, alternating with Dai Thomas making the case that Brian Braddock is Captain Britain. I must say that having just read your posts helped me follow it. 8^)<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-55382971640691187382014-06-29T20:59:42.025-07:002014-06-29T20:59:42.025-07:00// In the span of just three short strips. Moore a...<br><i>// In the span of just three short strips. Moore and Davis have revisited multiple characters and plot points from past runs on Captain Britain, and fashioned them effortlessly into a status quo and a mythos for our hero // </i><br /><br />That's what Alan Moore does — or did, anyway. I'm not a knee-jerk, drop-at-his-feet Moore acolyte, but he definitely has a genius for picking up pieces from what's come before in a feature's history and assembling them in such a way that even the most disparate parts seem like they were always building to an intentional saga greater that the sum of those parts. While he's pretty good at laying groundwork himself before revealing the whole picture too (often shifting perspective in a way that makes the reader slap his or her head), Moore's days of casting established characters' pasts in a new, slightly more mature narrative light without being dismissive of how juvenile the whole superhero enterprise is... boy, I miss 'em.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-49733219824643294982013-10-02T09:08:43.028-07:002013-10-02T09:08:43.028-07:00Hmm, I hadn't considered that, but you could b...Hmm, I hadn't considered that, but you could be right. Davis does another recap of Cap's history when he takes over solo plotting duties, though I don't recall it being as in-depth as this one is.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-62089621797348338112013-10-01T10:59:11.984-07:002013-10-01T10:59:11.984-07:00If a reader didn't know any better, they might...<i>If a reader didn't know any better, they might assume this had all been planned for years! </i><br /><br />And that, to me, is the best compliment a sprawling superhero saga can get! <br /><br /><i>All of Cap's major adventures to date are giving quick visual interpretations by Davis</i><br /><br />That sounds a little bit like <i>X-Men</i> #138, when we got to see Byrne draw some of the X-Men's Silver Age adventures. Given the debt owed to "DoFP" by the Jaspers Warp story, I wouldn't be surprised if that was intentional. <br />Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.com