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''Captain Britain and MI13'' is an American comic book series from Marvel Comics, written by Paul Cornell, with art by Leonard Kirk. The series centers on the fictional British government agency MI: 13, which is dedicated to protecting the United Kingdom from supernatural threats. The main strikeforce is led by the superhero Captain Britain (Brian Braddock), and consists of various Marvel Comics characters that are of British descent or have a connection to the country. The ongoing series launched as a tie-in to the ''Secret Invasion'' event in May 2008. The series ceased publication with issue #15. ==Publication history== The idea for the series grew out of Cornell's first Marvel MAX limited series ''Wisdom'', which is centered around Pete Wisdom and MI: 13. Editor Nick Lowe said, "I loved working with Paul on ''Wisdom'' and wanted to expose more readers to his writing."〔(Cornell & Lowe talk "Captain Britain and MI:13" ), Comic Book Resources, February 18, 2008.〕 In August 2007 it was announced that Cornell was going to take over writing ''New Excalibur'',〔(WW: Chicago - Marvel X-Men Panel ), Newsarama, August 10, 2007〕 another series with close links to MI: 13, but, over time, the project morphed into a new series. Cornell explained, "I think there have been so many Excaliburs lately that Nick () just wanted to underline that this is a fresh start. And it shows that we have a purpose firmly in mind. And it spotlights Cap, which is fine by me."〔(Damn Bloody Skrulls: Captain Britain and MI: 13 ), Newsarama, April 29, 2008〕 The ''New Excalibur'' team was wound up in the 2007 crossover mini-series ''X-Men: Die by the Sword'' and the major Marvel summer event of 2008, ''Secret Invasion'', was used as a launchpad for the new ''Captain Britain and MI: 13'' series, much like how the fallout of the 2005 summer event, ''House of M'', was used to launch ''New Excalibur'' which after issue #4, separated from the event to become an ongoing series. To help keep the series on schedule after the completion of the first story arc, Pat Olliffe and Paul Neary took over the art duties for issue #5 (the prologue to second storyline ''Hell Comes to Birmingham'') from Leonard Kirk and inker Jesse Delperdang. Paul Cornell has stated that Kirk is with the series "for the duration".〔(Paul Cornell's House of Awkwardness (blog) - ''Captain Britain #5, SFX and Doctor Who Puppets'' )〕 Michael Bair, with Jay Leisten and Craig Yeung, took over from Delperdang in issues 7 and 8 before Jay Leisten, at first with Cam Smith, took on the inking duties. Rumors that the title might have been cancelled, when sales dropped after the Secret Invasion tie-in ended, dropping from estimates of 36,805〔(Sales Estimates for August, 2008 ), Comic Book Resources〕 to 22,185 by issue #7,〔(Sales Estimates for November, 2008 ), Comic Book Resources〕 were denied by a Marvel spokesman who revealed plans for numerous upcoming storylines, including appearances by Doctor Doom, Dracula and the return of Meggan.〔(Rumorkiller: Captain Britain NOT Canceled ), Newsarama, January 23, 2009〕 Doom and Dracula feature in the third storyarc "Vampire State" which runs for six issues and an annual.〔(Bloody Hell: Cornell on Captain Britain ), Comic Book Resources, January 21, 2009〕 Outside of the comic series, several members of the team make cameo appearances in ''Mighty Avengers'' #22-23,〔(Paul Cornell's House of Awkwardness (blog) - ''Cap Podcast Interview and Mighty Avengers News'' )〕 and Paul Cornell wrote an in canon Twitter micro-blog page as Captain Britain〔(Marvel's Captain Britain Twittering Daily Heroics ) By John Scott Lewinski, wired.com, February 18, 2009〕 for a while, where Captain Britain describes character interactions and missions that take place off-panel between storyarcs. The series also had additional artistic contributions by Mike Collins, Adrian Alphona and Ardian Syaf. Also received a nod in the Best Graphic Story category for Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story in 2010. On May 19, 2009 Paul Cornell announced that issue #15 would be the last one saying: After the end of the series, the final battle from The Guns of Avalon story makes an appearance during a scene from Cornell and Kirk's following series ''Dark X-Men''. Marvel announced that Cornell and Kirk would reunite to write an MI:13 story in the first issue of the ''Age of Heroes'' anthology limited series〔(The Heroic Age: Age of Heroes ), Marvel.com, February 14, 2010〕〔(Paul Cornell's House of Awkwardness (blog) - ''Age of Heroes'' )〕 which would be followed by a ''Spitfire'' one-shot written by Cornell. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Captain Britain and MI13」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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