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Post by chaykinstevens on Feb 1, 2016 17:25:22 GMT -5
At least they were trying to acknowledge that there could be heroes outside North America. Whatever happened to Talisman, anyway? Shaman's daughter adopting Talisman's name in John Byrne's Alpha Flight in 1985 probably didn't help his opportunities. Talisman's creator (?) Mark Gruenwald brought him back in Quasar #23-25 in 1991 and I think Brian Michael Bendis used him in New Avengers #53 in 2009. |
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Post by tingramretro on Feb 1, 2016 18:22:05 GMT -5
I liked it, but it has bothered me for over thirty years that the appearance of Captain Britain in his original costume completely conflicts with his then ongoing continuity in the Marvel UK titles, in which he'd had a complete makeover a year before. Because of how tightly plotted the Marvel UK stuff was at the time, the only way the Captain and his sometime partner the Black Knight could possibly have been in this series is if they were somehow briefly abducted from their own recent past, midway through the Otherworld quest from 1979-1980, which seems highly unlikely. Marvel later screwed things up even more by claiming that the Black Knight's return to the present day in December 1982 ( Avengers #226) takes place before the Marvel UK Black Knight series from 1979, in which the Knight found Captain Britain living as an amnesiac hermit in a coastal cave where he'd supposedly been for two years. For it to fit, all the Marvel UK stuff from 1979 to about 1984 has to be occurring several years after it was actually published! The Marvel Chronology Project places Contest of Champions and Captain Britain's other appearance in Incredible Hulk #279 between the Black Knight strips in Hulk Comic #13 & 14. I've not read those issues since 1979, so I don't know how much sense that would make. Under so-called Marvel time, isn't everything they publish, with hindsight, deemed to have occurred years after its publication date anyway? Trust me, it makes no sense. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 1, 2016 18:26:45 GMT -5
Well, I liked it. The fight scenes were well choreographed and their was a good sense of characters-interacting-in-a-real-environment. And the Death reveal was cool.
Don't let one little math error ruin a good story for you.
It wasn't as good as the Sequel in Avengers Annual, with everyone vs. the Unliving Legion though.
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Post by dupersuper on Feb 1, 2016 23:59:32 GMT -5
All I remember of it, is that this series was basically Contest of Foreign Stereotypes. At least they were trying to acknowledge that there could be heroes outside North America. Whatever happened to Talisman, anyway? He was in Hickmans Avengers leading up to Secret Wars. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Feb 2, 2016 8:44:04 GMT -5
Well, I liked it. The fight scenes were well choreographed and their was a good sense of characters-interacting-in-a-real-environment. And the Death reveal was cool. Don't let one little math error ruin a good story for you. It wasn't as good as the Sequel in Avengers Annual, with everyone vs. the Unliving Legion though. My biggest problem wasn't the fact that two major cosmic entities couldn't count to three properly. It was more the ill conceived League of Global Stereotypes. |
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Post by tingramretro on Feb 2, 2016 9:03:50 GMT -5
Well, I liked it. The fight scenes were well choreographed and their was a good sense of characters-interacting-in-a-real-environment. And the Death reveal was cool. Don't let one little math error ruin a good story for you. It wasn't as good as the Sequel in Avengers Annual, with everyone vs. the Unliving Legion though. My biggest problem wasn't the fact that two major cosmic entities couldn't count to three properly. It was more the ill conceived League of Global Stereotypes. Begorrah, ye cannot be meanin' Shamrock, to be sure? |
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