Two years ago, Paul Cornell wrote a very British take on the character Wisdom, in which he introduced skrulls that looked like the Beatles. One of them, John Lennon Skrull, returns on the first page of this series.
The head of MI13 orders the guards to execute John, and apparently has already killed Ringo, Paul and George. But John is able to kill the MI13 leader first, and it turns out he’s a skrull. Because John worked with Pete Wisdom, the skrulls view him as a traitor and want him dead.
From there, we see that there has been an ongoing battle against skrulls in Britain, with the future members of MI13 all involved.
During his battle with some skrulls, we meet medic Faiza Hussain, who will soon get powers.
What kinds of powers? Well, the ability to pull people apart. She does it to Black Knight by accident…
…Which I love. My only criticism is that she puts him back together.
Captain Britain appears to die at the end of issue #1, which is a great way to start out a book that has your name on the title! The battle continues against a breed of super skrulls occupying Britain.
Pete Wisdom, noting that England has more magic than any other country on Earth, and pushes Captain Britain, Black Knight, and Spitfire to secure the Siege Perilous, in Scotland, before the skrulls can take it.
Through alliances with fairies, the death of the Lady of the Lake, the recovery of the Holy Grail, and various other (really fun) forms of skrull-magic-mayhem, Merlin appears and brings Brian Braddock back to life–armed with Excalibur.
Cap’s team-mates are captured by skrulls and before he can rescue them, John Lennon Skrull is assassinated.
That’s sad. I liked him.
The remaining heroes formally assemble as a team, and Faiza gets Excalibur…
This series has a lot of things I tend to dislike in my Marvel comics: British magic. Fairies. The Otherworld. Black Knight. And Black Knight. Oh, and it’s an event tie-in.
But this story was really good!