The Batlord

Yes, Captain Britain is in Excalibur. And you do realize he got a shot up the ass by Alan Moore, right?

Confused. What's wrong with Kitty Pryde?

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Trollheart

I don't understand this reference.
I suppose it's better than Pussy Pryde, but come on... It's hardly Nightflash or Starr or the Invisible Girl, is it? I have no idea whether any of the first two exist, but if they do they'd be better names than that.

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The Batlord

Captain Britain was rejuvenated by Alan Moore in one of Moore's most celebrated series.

I mean, would you rather hear "Shadowcat"? Who cares when she's so awesome?


Am I legit explaining this **** to you? Do you not know of Alan Moore's tenure with Captain Britain? Do you not know who Kitty Pryde is?

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Trollheart

No and no. I'm not quite the comics geek you are. I collected Marvel, but only specific heroes, such as Spidey, the Hulk, Fantastic Four, Avengers, Thor etc and I know of Alan Moore through Watchmen and V for Vendetta, as well as his work with 2000 AD of course, but other than that, no. I have a documentary on him somewhere I must watch at some point.

Also, I must point out the irony in your statement above, re who cares when she's so awesome, when applied to your trashing of the covers of the albums I recently reviewed, without bothering to even check out the music, specifically that Gert Emmin one. Who's being shallow now, huh?

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The Batlord

I was trashing a cover, not the thing underneath (and it most definitely was a ****ty cover). Kitty Pryde has been a time honored member of the X-Men for the last three decades, and Captain Britain was Alan Moore's declaration of mad awesomeness to the world. Do yourself a favor and avail yourself.

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Trollheart

First print date: January 30 1982
Prog appearance: 249
Writer(s): John Grant
Artist(s): Carlos Ezquerra
Total episodes: 25

The Apocalypse War, Episode V

As the city shakes to the barrage of the Sov missiles, some people take Block Mania a stage further, perhaps developing acute Future Shock Syndrome, becoming full-blown Futsies. These decide literally to dance as they die, resulting in a new craze sweeping Mega-City One, or what's left of it: Apocalypse Fever. The musical expression of this is called Apocalypso, but sadly, music doth not have charms to soothe these savage beasts, and the Apocalypso dancers are vapourised as another missile strikes. Dredd decides enough is enough: if he can't protect Mega-City One, then by Grud he can ensure they take East-Meg One with them! He gives the order to launch the TADs, or Total Annihilation Devices, warheads that make the Sov missiles seem puny in comparison.

Having done what he can, Dredd visits Chief Judge Griffin, recovering the the med-bay, and tells him of the latest developments. Griffin approves, saying that they must go down fighting, but still wondering why the Sovs began this very short intercontinental war, which must and can only end in both the antagonists' destruction? Dredd has no answers; for him, it's enough that the Sovs did attack, and he has no intention of ruminating on their motives any further. However as the TADs approach East Meg One, Snekov gives the order for all non-essential power to be cut, and channelled to a massive defence shield, like a transparent dome over the city, which he calls the Apocalypse Warp. The TADs, encountering this force field, merely seem to dissolve into it. This is not good: MAD is what kept the superpowers at bay and even though the Sovs have gone beyond that, Dredd and Griffin still believe that though this is the end for them, the Sovs will also be destroyed. If their enemy have some way to neutralise an attack on them, then the scales have been tipped, and in this deadly game of poker the Sovs hold all the cards.

Quotes

The Apocalypso, as sung by Cy: “Apocalypso, apocalypso, everybody sing and shout! Apocalypso, apocalypso, them sneaky Sovs they nuke us out! Apocalypso, apocalypso, the whole city's goin' boom, Apocalypso, apocalypso, we all dancin' to our doom! Apocalypso, apocalypso, the Mega-City going to Hell. Apocalypso, apocalypso, apart from that we doin' swell. Apocalypso, apocalypso the bombs they come to fry our fat. Apocalypso, apocalypso, population's goin'...” He doesn't finish, but the impact of the nuke provides the punchline and the rhyme, as it SPLATS down on him!

Judge Hackett: “Those murdering East Meggers! Every sector south of the 35th parallel – nuked out!”
Dredd: “Get a grip on yourself, Hackett!”
Hackett: “Don't you understand Dredd! We're talking about 150 million people! Wiped out – just like that! It's monstrous! I can't believe it! I won't!”
Dredd (punching Hackett out): “Prone to hysteria. Somebody at the Academy should have spotted it.”

Bulgarin: “There is no more to be said. You have our terms: unconditional surrender, or the Apocalypse!”
Dredd: “Surrender? And condemn my city to Sov-block slavery? Never!”

Griffin: “What I don't understand is why? Why did they start this insane war?”

Laughing in the face of death

The emergence of Apocalypso is quite amusing. Anything in the fact that it happens to be a black man leading the performance?


I AM THE LAW!

In the absence of, we assume, any Judge of higher rank, Dredd assumes the awful responsibility for sending certain death hissing through the air towards their attackers. Anyone else would probably hesitate at condemning millions to death at the touch of a button, but for Dredd it's surely seen by him as nothing more than an expected and indeed required response to the battering they have taken from the Sovs.

Interesting, too, to see that Dredd makes no allowances for the pressures of this extraordinary situation on people, as he answers Judge Hackett's hysterical outburst by socking him and growling “Prone to hysteria” and blaming the fact that this most un-Judgelike trait was not caught on the Academy of Law process. All he's really concerned about, in this case, is that Hackett has disgraced his uniform by being weak, and were the situation different and he could afford the time (and were any iso-blocks still standing) he would surely have him charged and imprisoned for dereliction of duty, bringing the force into disrepute, and anything else he could think of.

Welcome to the world of tomorrow!

Where hidden deep in silos throughout the Cursed Earth, under the sea and even on orbiting satellite platforms, TADs sleep, awaiting the call to action which will fling them into battle. Each huge missile is capable of levelling a city the size of Mega-City One. They are the ultimate retaliatory – or indeed, pre-emptive strike – weapon.

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Trollheart

No, you were focussing exclusively on the cover and thereby dismissing the contents, which is pretty much the same thing, the classic "judge a book by its cover" argument. Did you listen to the music? If you did, then I withdraw my comment but I somehow doubt you did, which then means you made an assumption based on a cursory outside examination as to what the contents would be. I did the same in the case of Kitty Pryde: the name was /is so ludicrous to me I wondered if she was worth bothering about. We're both guilty of the same shallowness, my friend.

If Ms Pryde though has been in the X-Men then I probably will pass, as Excelsior! is to concentrate on smaller, lesser-known heroes, and I really wouldn't be interested in an ex X-Man, as it were. I might check out Captain Britain though. I feel I may have read some of his stories.

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The Batlord

No, you're stupid. Making fun of a picture is not the same as making fun of sound. I didn't say anything about the music and almost certainly wouldn't have listened to it no matter what cover it had. So I did not dismiss it because of that, I dismissed it because it was in one of your journals.

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Trollheart

Hah! Got you! It wasn't in one of my journals! It was in the main forum!
**** you Batty and have a Happy Christmas.

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The Batlord

Who the **** can keep up with all of your lame threads?

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