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A review by lillian_francis
Captain Britain And MI13,Vol. 3: Vampire State by Paul Cornell, Mico Suayan, Stuart Immonen, Leonard Kirk, Jay Leisten
2.0
Huh. Well that was disappointing.
First I was confused, so many characters and I didn't really know any of them (except Blade and that's only from the films). And we don't spend enough time with them to learn anything about them. The focus is all on the vampires.
So, I paused and read the wiki page on Captain Britain (which at least explained why there appeared to be two of them).
Then everything kicked off and it got quite exciting, except we stop mid action for a mind numbingly boring issue on Meggan (Cap Britain's formerly dead (?) wife) and something to do with hell. Which is followed by a cricket match that I found amusing for the cricket stuff but CB kept thinking of wife which dragged it down to boredom level again. Plus I couldn't work out when this match was taking place, did they pause in the middle of a vampire invasion to play cricket? I don't think so but who knows, not me!
Favourite characters: the crusader and the Muslim - Dane, The Black Knight, and Dr Faiza Hussain, his steward. Pleased to see a positive portrayal of a British Muslim woman in a hijab.
First I was confused, so many characters and I didn't really know any of them (except Blade and that's only from the films). And we don't spend enough time with them to learn anything about them. The focus is all on the vampires.
So, I paused and read the wiki page on Captain Britain (which at least explained why there appeared to be two of them).
Then everything kicked off and it got quite exciting, except we stop mid action for a mind numbingly boring issue on Meggan (Cap Britain's formerly dead (?) wife) and something to do with hell. Which is followed by a cricket match that I found amusing for the cricket stuff but CB kept thinking of wife which dragged it down to boredom level again. Plus I couldn't work out when this match was taking place, did they pause in the middle of a vampire invasion to play cricket? I don't think so but who knows, not me!
Favourite characters: the crusader and the Muslim - Dane, The Black Knight, and Dr Faiza Hussain, his steward. Pleased to see a positive portrayal of a British Muslim woman in a hijab.