That's right, a Marvel comic that makes mention to the Sword and the Stone, Oberon and Puck, and the fairies. That's right. This book has fairies. Swearing angry fairies related to Oberon who hate Pete Wisdom's guts. And man is it just all kinds of cool to see Leonard Kirk draw all this random weird stuff and just hit it on all notes.

Just stellar work all around.

Anyways, Petey figures out, from the voice in his head, that he must venture to find Oberon and he does. Oberon is closing the doors on all the parallel, magic realms, and keeping them safe from the Skrulls, who want to harness the power of the magicks to create better, stronger, faster, more formidable Skrulls (that sadly, we won't see anywhere outside of this book). Oberon knows what is going on with Pete and the voice in his head, we are still slightly in the cold on that, but the magick realms despise Pete Wisdom, just like the old days when no one trusted him as far as they could throw him.

Oberon comes off as an overbearing, massively egotistical dick that SCREAMS at everyone. And he is drawn as such. The fairy we meet near the beginning is drawn as a punk rock chick that is swearing, drug-addled, and just plain rude. Faiza is drawn as a young woman scared of what is happening to the world around her, and she has recently been blessed (cursed?) with abilities she never knew she had and that causes Black Knight to be shredded apart (another awesome scene as done by Kirk). When Black Knight is put back together, he goes to town on the Skrulls with his Ebony Blade, until Faiza freezes them and doesn't allow him to kill them while they are in that state.

On the opposite side, the mates find the Sword in the stone, and none of them (John Skrullennon, Spitfire (part vampyr), or Petey) and the issue draws to a close with the team all but F'ed in the A. The Skrulls have unlocked the magicks, and boom goes the dynamite, it's time for a fricking party. With magical Doc Strange/Dormammu Skrulls. Skrullmammu Strange if you will.

Paul Cornell works magic (sorry) and just absolutely loves the characters he is whizzing around GB and just astounds me with the way he takes these character not really used to their full potential in years and just makes them his own. He does exactly what the comics world said Joss Whedon did with the X-men, only he does it on-time and he respects the past. He makes the finger-knife throwing jerk Pete Wisdom a jerk with a sense of honor. Just like he's always been. He makes Black Knight a condescending jerk who thinks he should be more famous than he is, just like he's always been portrayed when portrayed well. Spitfire feels like she is not honorable because of her tainted blood. They all sound like real people (just like the PM of GB) and they are just really easy to hear in your head. Really easy to have be a part of the tapestry of the Marvel Universe.

Finally, I can only hope people are buying this for the intrigue, for the SI tag on the top. And I can only hope people stick with it to the end. This book is the tops right now, and it is just all kinds of badass. And Captain Britain will be back. The touches about how he was different from Captain America were great. People heard about Cap America's death, they felt it in Britain. So who will be the new Captain Britain? Will Brian Braddock come back? Will you?