Captain Britain continues this week, with the aftermath of Dracula’s initial attack on the team. We see Faiza dealing with the fact her family were directly attacked, and the team regrouping at a hospital.
There’s a good speech from Pete where he tells Faiza to get back in the game, and gives her a new codename: Excalibur. They’ve realised that Dracula sent two attack squads against Faiza, versus the one sent against everyone else. So he’s clearly concerned about Excalibur. The scenes actually play well off of a comment tweeted by Captain Britain a while back, where he noted that Faiza had yet to experience any of the loss the rest of the team has had as heroes.
The great thing here is the way Paul Cornell is playing up Dracula’s military strategy. I love the idea that he’s been playing a long game, and is trying to seed dissent by not attacking Blade. There’s the hint that Dracula was behind the fake ebony blade as well, which I imagine will become a plot point in future issues. Spitfire has also found herself targetted as her son turns up and attempts to bring her back into the vampire fold. She of course refuses, but Dracula obviously has the power to exert his will onto other vampires, and so it really looks like Spitfire’s going to find herself unwillingly used against her own teammates.
Great issue. I’m loving Dracula as a mastermind villain so far and the team’s coming together well now. I especially like the Black Knight and Faiza scenes. They work really well off of each other.
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