scans_daily: Secret Avengers #26 Preview - Well, at least she got a namecheck!

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@ 2012-04-22 05:54 pm UTC

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char: beast/hank mccoy, char: captain britain/brian braddock, char: thor odinson/donald blake, char: valkyrie/brunnhilde, creator: renato guedes, creator: rick remender, genre: previews, title: secret avengers

Secret Avengers #26 Preview - Well, at least she got a namecheck!

Newsarama have a preview for SA #26

Beast has a nightmare about Jean's original Dark Phoenix rampage, and being a nightmare it ends badly... They mention (annoyingly) that the original aim of the Phoenix was to burn things on a cosmic scale... so much for the "Avatar of Life", but I think we know that ship has sailed thanks to this ruddy crossover.

At least Brian is defending Rachel's time as the Phoenix. Beast defending Jean is in character, but given that she DID go Dark Phoenix and Rachel never did, I'm not sure that his POV has much going for it.

And then in another WTF moment.... Thor walks in... or rather reels, along with Valkyrie.

Now Thor doing a bit of carousing I can sort of see, and I know Norse legend tends towards the fatalistic, but even so... this seems most unlike him. He's faced down Ragnarok, he'd be girding his lois, not drowning his sorrows.

Though I like Brian acknowledging that him getting drunk is never a good idea.

Interesting art style here, a pleasant change from the norm.

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	no subject alexanderlucard 2012-04-22 09:04 pm UTC (link)
	...Doesn't Thor know Captain Britain is a recovering alcoholic? I thought pretty much every super hero knew that, (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 14 comments) (Show 14 comments)

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2012-04-22 09:12 pm UTC (link)

There might be some debate on that.

Alan Davis is quite firm that he never wrote Brian as an alcoholic. Brian has some issues with alcohol use when he's depressed (Such as his extended bender when Betsy died) and he prefers not to drink alcohol if he has a choice because, as he says here, he's an arsehole when he does, but I don't think that's quite the same as alcoholism.

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	no subject alexanderlucard 2012-04-22 10:28 pm UTC (link)
	Alan Davis didn't but a few others have including Chris Claremont. They even did a flashback issue in Excalibur where Spider-Man and Brian were roomies and Peter eventually kicked him out for alcoholism. I guess it depends on the writer, Like how Beast's look flip-flops too. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 9 comments) (Show 9 comments)

	no subject lascoden 2012-04-22 10:48 pm UTC (link)
	Whoa, Spider-Man and Captain Britain were roommates? When was this? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

	no subject icon_uk 2012-04-22 11:03 pm UTC (link)
	In Brian's first appearance in American comics, Marvel Team-Up #65, back in 1978. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject lascoden 2012-04-22 11:06 pm UTC (link)
	Huh, cool. Thanks. I don't know why, but I just find that very bizarre. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject alexanderlucard 2012-04-23 12:23 am UTC (link)
	The...70s I think? Started in an old Marvel Team up. Cap was still wearing the lion outfit. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject sherkahn 2012-04-23 03:49 am UTC (link)
	The late 70's. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject espanolbot 2012-04-23 06:51 am UTC (link)
	Huh, so Harry wasn't the only person with substance abuse that Spidey just decided to discard, go figure. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

	no subject icon_uk 2012-04-23 07:10 am UTC (link)
	If Brian isn't prepared to accept that he has a problem, then there's not really a lot that can be done (The first step being admitting that you HAVE a problem), especially when the person is a passing acquaintance, who is the Atlantic and several hours time difference away. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject alexanderlucard 2012-04-23 10:56 am UTC (link)
	Marvel Team up #65. Back when comics were only 35 cents! Then in Excalibure, they did a flashback to Brian's semester at ESU where Pete confronts him about his alcoholism and how Brian nearly had to drop out of college because of it, (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject mastermahan 2012-04-24 09:30 pm UTC (link)
	So Johnny's not the first time Peter has shacked up with a muscular blond then? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject doomisay 2012-04-23 03:11 pm UTC (link)
	Paul Cornell specifically retconned it during CB&MI-13. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject icon_uk 2012-04-23 03:41 pm UTC (link)
	Retconned the alcoholism in, or retconned it out? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject doomisay 2012-04-23 07:42 pm UTC (link)
	Retconned it out. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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