Cluttered Like My Head

 We're in the home stretch now - I think it's fair to see that the creators knew the end was coming, as the Captain Britain story is coming close to wrapping up. The Fury meets with our assortment of heroes, and has the upper stakes in the battle that kicks off, ending with a shocking fade to black for the final page. As ever, it's wonderful stuff, Moore and Davis working wonderfully as a team, and with an opening triptych that plays to Davis's strengths. I know I'm forty years after the curve, but I'm glad to have finally got around to reading this,  As an extra this month, we have a strip called The Crusader by Davis and Paul Neary, apparently Davis's first professional work. It's another amusing parody of comic book tropes with our hero having been disturbed by the death of his parents, and deciding to become a superhero to avenge them. II'm not sure how it would have fitted originally in the pages of Rampage but it's an effective filler here,...

From my recall, book 3 of the series, "The Pursuit of Diana" by Allen Wold came out around the same time as the weekly TV show - I could be wrong (Amazon lists a publication date of June 1985) By the time the weekly show made it to the UK, the wheels had pretty clearly fallen off of the wagon, and instead of it being a high profile weekly show, it was shunted to late night on some ITV regions - not all of them even carried it.  But NEL, in the wake of Pinnacle in the US ploughed ahead, with a book showing how Diana was captured at the close of the two mini-series.  Ostensibly, this closes a gap between those series and the weekly show, which opened a year later with Diana on the stand for 'Crimes against Humanity'.  In reality, its really a lot of set pieces where the resistance capture Diana, then they come up against some humans who have been converted, Diana escapes, they capture her again, they end up on a mother ship, they need to fix the mother ship, they fight ...