Talk:Jaspers' Warp

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We could really do with something about the name or the lack of it. Regarding it as an arc worthy of an individual article is no problem; the thing is everyone including the Alans just seems to refer to it as "Captain Britain" or "the Alan Moore-Alan Davis run on Captain Britain".
1. For halfway official mentions, Claremont calls it "Jaspers Warp" (sic) in his intro to the 1988 CB trade but most of the intros I've been able to find copies of almost go out of their way not to name it.
2. As far as I can see "Crooked World" seems to originate from the 2002 untitled Captain Britain trade starting with that episode, but then I am working from scans of that one and am missing the non-comic pages, frustratingly.
Talking of the 2002 trade, there was some story going around not long after that Joe Quesada had put much effort in to sweet-talking Alan Moore around (tying into the big push he was making to get the likes of Gaiman, Ennis, Morrison etc to write for Marvel) and then when the trade came out it was missing some promised credits acknowledging Moore created some characters were omitted and he predictably went ballistic, leading to the whole Original Writer thing when Marvel came knocking for Miracleman. Struggling to find a reliable source.
Related to the above there's those stories that Claremont wanted to do a story featuring the Fury and Jaspers in the eighties and couldn't because Moore held the rights, yet around the same time as the trade Zombie Claremont was able to fuck both characters up with impunity. Be interesting to know what changed in between.
I can't find a proper source for who Tom Tusker is based on, just speculation that it's General Jumbo or Eric Dolmann.
The BNP thing is interesting, according to this wiki the current bunch of twats didn't start pooling their inadequacies until 1982. Be interesting to find out if this was a coincidence or if Thorpe knew of the earlier incarnations. Or if he created Earth-616 and the BNP in one chaotic stint.
Would love to see some more contemporary feedback added; the strip getting good notices at the time is widely referred to in modern sources but some that aren't after-the-matter would be great.
It's not just me, is it? That Arcade page just doesn't really go anywhere? BoomboxTestarossa (talk) 20:13, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]