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Symmetry wrote:

muy_thaiguy wrote:

Symmetry wrote:

muy_thaiguy wrote:Speaking of comic heroes Sym, other than John Constantine (whom I'm only vaguely familiar with), do the British have any DC/Marvel heroes or equivalents?

The Captain Britain series is being produced by Marvel, it seems.

Outside of DC and Marvel, there's Judge Dredd, of course. It sort of depends what you mean though. Doctor Who comes to mind, James Bond, perhaps.

Judge Dredd is British?!

I blame Sylvester Stalone for THAT mix up.

And I assume Captain Britain is the British version of Captain America?

Sort of, but granted powers by Merlin, if I remember right.

Well, here's the thing, it depends what you mean by a British superhero. Based in Britain? Created by a Brit? From a comic?

V from V for Vendetta is another one. Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman produced a lot of great comics between them, with some great heroes, and antiheroes.

But yeah, Dredd is from a British comic book.

Big Benn, Strontium Dog, Marvelman (and the marvelman family), the whole of MI13. Thunderbolt Jaxxon, Archie the Robot, the Steel Claw. That's off the top of my head.

And how could I leave out Axel Pressbutton?

Batman vs Superman was fricking appalling.

Speaking of comic heroes Sym, other than John Constantine (whom I'm only vaguely familiar with), do the British have any DC/Marvel heroes or equivalents?

Take your turn mycomics007.

Speaking of comic heroes Sym, other than John Constantine (whom I'm only vaguely familiar with), do the British have any DC/Marvel heroes or equivalents?

tonylee123321 wrote:Speaking of comic heroes Sym, other than John Constantine (whom I'm only vaguely familiar with), do the British have any DC/Marvel heroes or equivalents?

The Captain Britain series is being produced by Marvel, it seems.

Outside of DC and Marvel, there's Judge Dredd, of course. It sort of depends what you mean though. Doctor Who comes to mind, James Bond, perhaps.

MI-13.

Miracleman.

Thunderbolt Jaxon.

The Steel Claw.

Bananaman.

Danger Mouse.

Big Benn

Strontium Dog.

Elton John

Actually, the biggest comic news in years for me is that next March will see the reissue of an (affordable) reprint of Trigan Empire.

Ok but have you clicked on the link in his signature?

jonesthecurl wrote:

Symmetry wrote:

muy_thaiguy wrote:

Symmetry wrote:

muy_thaiguy wrote:Speaking of comic heroes Sym, other than John Constantine (whom I'm only vaguely familiar with), do the British have any DC/Marvel heroes or equivalents?

The Captain Britain series is being produced by Marvel, it seems.

Outside of DC and Marvel, there's Judge Dredd, of course. It sort of depends what you mean though. Doctor Who comes to mind, James Bond, perhaps.

Judge Dredd is British?!

I blame Sylvester Stalone for THAT mix up.

And I assume Captain Britain is the British version of Captain America?

Sort of, but granted powers by Merlin, if I remember right.

Well, here's the thing, it depends what you mean by a British superhero. Based in Britain? Created by a Brit? From a comic?

V from V for Vendetta is another one. Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman produced a lot of great comics between them, with some great heroes, and antiheroes.

But yeah, Dredd is from a British comic book.

Big Benn, Strontium Dog, Marvelman (and the marvelman family), the whole of MI13. Thunderbolt Jaxxon, Archie the Robot, the Steel Claw. That's off the top of my head.

The problem is what is considered a British superhero. Plenty of Brits create superheroes. Plenty of superheroes are British. Some are kinda ambiguous- they're comic book heroes, but are they superheroes?

Judge Dredd is British created and via a British comic, but he's in a post-apocalyptic America. John Constantine is a Brit, created by a Brit, but for DC, an American company, although I think that was for their Vertigo division.

So, anyway, some others that may or may not be British- Rorschach, Ozymandias and Dr Manhattan (Watchmen), Jesse Custer (Preacher), Dream and Death (of the Endless- Sandman), Spider Jerusalem (Transmetropolitan). Basically anything that Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, Neil Gaiman, or Alan Moore have created could be considered British.

Actually John Constantine was created by Alan Moore, and I think originally appeared in Swamp Thing.

jonesthecurl wrote:Actually John Constantine was created by Alan Moore, and I think originally appeared in Swamp Thing.

Alan Moore was one of the British creators I mentioned, but yeah, I could have explained that better, apologies. You are right, but what happens if a Brit creates an American hero (or anti-hero) for an American comic?

In a roundabout way, what I was trying to say was that it's kinda difficult to say that a comic book character or a superhero is British.

Yes... I was wondering whether to add Axel Pressbutton to the list - British creators, Brit comic (Warrior, which first gave us V for Vendetta and Marvelman among others), but all the adventures I recall were off-Earth.
Also, the long-forgotten "Kelly's Eye" turned up when I was going down the Trigan Empire rabbit hole. He (Kelly) probably counts as a superhero, as the "Eye" made him immortal, and his adventures were in one of the old multi-tale Brit comics, Valiant or Knockout or some such.

I think the original question was about superheroes which, according to the story, come from Britain rather than from British creators.

DC incidentally also have Knight and Squire, a Brit-based Batman and Robin -type team. They were originally created by Americans, but I think the latest incarnations were one of the Brit talents.

jonesthecurl wrote:Yes... I was wondering whether to add Axel Pressbutton to the list - British creators, Brit comic (Warrior, which first gave us V for Vendetta and Marvelman among others), but all the adventures I recall were off-Earth.
Also, the long-forgotten "Kelly's Eye" turned up when I was going down the Trigan Empire rabbit hole. He (Kelly) probably counts as a superhero, as the "Eye" made him immortal, and his adventures were in one of the old multi-tale Brit comics, Valiant or Knockout or some such.

I think the original question was about superheroes which, according to the story, come from Britain rather than from British creators.

DC incidentally also have Knight and Squire, a Brit-based Batman and Robin -type team. They were originally created by Americans, but I think the latest incarnations were one of the Brit talents.

Knight and Squire are all kinds of awful, IMHO. That whole Batman Inc. thing was just another exercise in "what if" comics, but even more terrible than usual as it wasn't just a fun exercise.

Anyway- "come from Britain" is kinda the ambiguity. Superman is an American superhero, but he doesn't come from America.