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[thebitterguy]

Surfing Ellis on Wikipedia, I stumble upon the listing for Pete Wisdom, another character of his who’s got his own book. Wisdom is fun, although I’m sure I’m missing a huge joke about Captain Midlands. A fairy named Tink is cute enough, and John the Skrull seemed like a fairly shallow joke until the third (second? can't remember)issue.

The base concept is that Wisdom runs an operations team for MI-13, the branch of UK intelligence that handles stuff that’s supernatural (although in the Marvel universe, that would be a lot of stuff).

I’ve found it to have certain similarities to Torchwood, only what it would be like if Captain Jack wasn’t an emo douchebag.

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[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

Let's not sell Captain Jack short - he's a Mary Sue emo douchebag.

[thebitterguy]

True, true. All dark and tortured and stuff.

[stop-no-dont.livejournal.com]

I know this has been refuted all over the place, but Wisdom seems as much a Constantine knock-off as anything else.

On another front, have you read Peter David's new take on X-Factor? Surprisingly good.

[thebitterguy]

It's gotten to the point that you can't be an Englishman in a trenchcoat without being compared to Constantine.

I read the first issue of X-F, and it didn't stick. Is there a TpB yet?

[stop-no-dont.livejournal.com]

Constantine just set the bar that high, is all.

Anyway, yeah, the first X-F trade is out, covering the debut arc. I think it reads much better in that format.

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

I don't quite grasp it all, but I'll read Paul Cornell re-writing a phone book.

[thebitterguy]

What's he worked on previously?

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

A bunch of Doctor Who novels, including my favourite, Human Nature, and the Ninth Doctor episode Father's Day.