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by Captain 616
Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:55 pm
Forum: Ask Alan!
Topic: Who's been watching Comics Britannia on BBC FOUR?
Replies: 11
Views: 10989

I’m not sure I understand what you mean here. Do you believe the grudges and petty politics are valid? My point was that Paul Neary and Des Skinn are not given the credit they deserve. That was in fact the point I was trying to make, also. However, reading back over my post I can confirm that openi...
by Captain 616
Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:50 am
Forum: Ask Alan!
Topic: Who's been watching Comics Britannia on BBC FOUR?
Replies: 11
Views: 10989

Grudges and politics, maybe. But that does not make them invalid ones. So it might just be my own personal opinion, but if you're making a documentary series on the British Comic Book industry that would be a pretty strong 'story' to cover. I felt that the way in which this third part of the series ...
by Captain 616
Sun Sep 30, 2007 11:34 pm
Forum: Ask Alan!
Topic: Who's been watching Comics Britannia on BBC FOUR?
Replies: 11
Views: 10989

I would have liked to have seen this series extend another show into the 1990s, with the decline period for British comics, the loss of Marvel UK, and the like. Not in a car crash kind of way you understand, more in a proper exploration. What we had here, instead, pretty much comes across as "The 80...
by Captain 616
Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:23 am
Forum: Ask Alan!
Topic: You asked for it! The Psylocke thread
Replies: 9
Views: 10918

I have no idea exactly why Betsy/Psylocke was changed. Her transformation into an oriental (No one at Marvel was ever able to give a definite ethnicity) Elektra clone removed any connection to her original incarnation so she may as well have been a totally new character. In Captain Britain, Betsy w...