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docgold13 · 2 years

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365 Marvel Comics Paper Cut-Out SuperHeroes - One Hero, Every Day, All Year…

July 2nd - Union Jack

Three different heroes have operated under the moniker of the Union Jack. The first was a British aristocrat named Lord James Montgomery Falsworth. Lord Falsworth became a secret costumed operative for the British government during the First World War. Clad in a costume resembling the British flag, the Union Jack personified the fighting spirit of Great Britain and the Germans came to greatly fear his one-man commando-style actions. In the later days of the war, Union Jack acted as a member of a team of costumed heroes from America, Britain and France, known as Freedom's Five.

The Union Jack’s primary nemesis was the vampire known as Baron Blood. The two battled on a number of occasions and Union Jack appeared to have slain the villain after discovering he was actually his brother, John Falsworth.

Lord Flasworth continued on as Union Jack through the end of World War I and later resigned his post in protest to Prime Minister Chamberlin's policy of appeasement towards the nazi regime that had come into power in Germany. His son, Brian Falsworth, traveled to Berlin taste part of a humanitarian effort and was ultimately arrested by the Gestapo.

Brian was imprisoned alongside the scientist, Eric Schmitt, who had formulated a variant of the Super-Soldier serum that was used to turn Steve Rogers into Captain America. Unknown to the nazis, Schmitt had succeeded in synthesizing his formula and he secretly gave it to Brian. Brian took the serum and was bestowed greatly enhanced strength, speed and resiliency. With these new powers, Brian escaped and became a costumed fighter of the nazis known as the Destroyer.

Meanwhile, Lord Falsworth had resumed his guise as Union Jack to fight the Axis Forces and became an associate member of the allied super team, The Invaders. He was gravely injured in battle against his brother, Baron Blood. Forced to retire, Lord Falsworth passed on the mantle of The Union Jack to his son, Brian. As the new Union Jack, Brian fought alongside the Invaders throughout the end of the war.

Brain's lover, Roger Aubrey, had taken on Brian’s former guise as The Destroyer and together the two helped form the V-Battalion, a team of heroes who sought to prevent fascist regimes like the nazis from ever coming into power again. Some time thereafter, Brian tragically died in an automobile accident.

Many years later, an aged Lord Falsworth came to suspect that his villainous brother had once more returned. These suspicions were correct and, with the aide of Captain America and the family friend, Joseph Chapman, Lord Falsworth was once more able to defeat and seemingly destroy his evil brother. Lord Falsworth passed away not long thereafter and Joseph Chapman chose to continue the legacy of Union Jack, donning the costume and becoming an elite operative for the British super team, MI-13.

Lord Flasworth first appeared in the pages of Invaders Vol. 1 #7 (1976); his son Brain Falsworth first appeared in Invaders Vol. 1 #18 (1977); and Joseph Chapman first appeared in Captain America Vol 1 #253 (1981).

#365 Marvel Comics Heroes #Union Jack #Invaders #V-Battalion #MI-13 #cut-out #paper art

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why-i-love-comics · 5 years

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Doctor Doom #1 - “Pottersville” (2019)

written by Christopher Cantwell art by Salvador Larroca & Guru-eFX

#doctor doom #union jack #agent zero #victor von doom #marvel #joseph chapman #david north #I think? I think there's two #wednesday spoilers #comics #wednesday spoiler #spoilers #comic spoilers #comic books spoilers #comic books

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comicwaren · 5 years

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From Doctor Doom #001, “Pottersville”

Art by Salvador Larroca and Guru-eFX

Written by Christopher Cantwell

#doctor doom #victor von doom #kang the conqueror #nathaniel richards #victorious #zora vukovic #union jack #joseph chapman #marvel #comics #marvel comics

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comicavalcade · 6 years

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My own team of Invaders, courtesy of the Eaglemoss Classic Marvel lead figurines

#namor #namor mckenzie #namor the sub mariner #human torch #jim hammond #golden age torch #captain america #steve rogers #union jack #joseph chapman #destroyer #mighty destroyer #roger aubrey #invaders #marvel #marvel comics

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giveamadeuschohisownmovie · 2 years

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Pitch for an Agents of SHIELD Disney+ revival/reboot:

MAIN STORY

In 2024, the countries of the world agree to revive a form of S.H.I.E.L.D.. Even though the HYDRA uprising is still fresh in everyone’s minds, the world agrees that an organization like S.H.I.E.L.D. is needed in order to deal with large-scale threats such as Ultron and Thanos. This new S.H.I.E.L.D. serves as a counterpart to S.W.O.R.D.; while S.W.O.R.D. deals cosmic threats, S.H.I.E.L.D. deals with Earth-based threats.

In Glasgow, CIP Joseph Chapman (codename: Union Jack) singlehandedly foils a Flag-Smasher terrorist attack, managing to save several Scottish MPs who were the target of the attack.

In Wakanda, CIA officer Clay Quartermain successfully negotiates the release of several CIA agents that were caught trying to illegally enter Wakanda.

In Sokovia, Captain Laynia Petrova (codename: Darkstar) successfully defends the capital building from an attack organized by the supporters of the exiled royal family (Zemo and the Maximoff twins were supporters of the crown).

Based on these acts of heroism, all three individuals are recommended by their respective governments to join S.H.I.E.L.D.. Their first mission; hunt down the the far-right terrorist known as “Sin”, who has rebuilt HYDRA from the ground up. To accomplish this mission, Joseph, Clay, and Laynia are assigned to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s best field agent; Commander Daisy Johnson (codename: Quake).

SIDE NOTES

1) In case it wasn’t obvious, this AOS reboot is tonally different from the original show. It’s much closer in tone to shows like BBC’s Bodyguard, 24, and Homeland. I also took inspiration from movies like 13 Hours, Black Hawk Down, Zero Dark Thirty, and the Bourne trilogy.

2) Chloe Bennet reprises her role as Daisy Johnson. However, instead of being the protagonist, she’s the veteran agent mentoring the rookie agents in the life of a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Basically...Daisy has become Phil Coulson.

3) Iain De Caestecker makes a guest appearance as Leo Fitz. He is the Scottish MP who recommended CIP Joseph Chapman to S.H.I.E.L.D.. It’s briefly mentioned that Fitz became a politician because he was unhappy with how the United Kingdom was handling the Snap crisis, echoing the reasons why Karli Morgenthau started the Flag-Smashers in the first place.

4) “Sin” is the MCU version of Sinthea Schmidt, Red Skull’s daughter. But for the sake of the timeline, her backstory is changed to being Red Skull’s granddaughter (or great-granddaughter).

5) Daniel Sousa and Kora are briefly alluded to in the series. This is mainly for logistical reasons since it’d be difficult to explain their existence to the casual MCU viewer. Let’s just say that Daisy mentions having a boyfriend and a sister and that they’re busy with work.

6) Henry Simmons reprises his role as Director Alphonso “Mack” Mackenzie. Since this is a soft reboot, he’s simply introduced as the director of the new S.H.I.E.L.D. without mentioning any of the events of AOS in order to avoid confusing casual viewers.

CASTING THE NEW CHARACTERS

1) Jack Lowden as CIP Joseph Chapman (Union Jack)

2) Chris Webster as CIA officer Clay Quartermain

3) Izabella Miko as Captain Laynia Petrova (Darkstar)

4) Diane Kruger as Sinthea Schmidt (Sin)

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sineala · 3 years

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The gay Invaders

Hi, internet! Today I'd like to talk about one of the chronologically-first canonically-gay couples in Marvel Comics history: Brian Falsworth (the second Union Jack) and Roger Aubrey (The Destroyer). (I mean "chronological" in terms of in-universe timeline rather than RL publication date; I'm pretty sure Northstar is still the first to publication as far as unambiguously-gay Marvel heroes go.)

If you are a fan of reading or writing about Captain America being queer, you should care about Brian and Roger, because they were two of Steve's fellow Invaders in the 1940s, meaning that they are two of the people on the list of Steve's Old Gay Friends And Teammates, because, yeah, Steve sure had a lot of canonically gay friends during the war. Probably more than you'd think he would have had in the forties! (The other two are Percival Pinkerton, who's part of Nick Fury's Howling Commandos, and of course Steve's childhood friend Arnie Roth. Pinky is gay by word of Stan Lee, IIRC; Arnie was as canonically gay as DeMatteis could make him in the early 1980s, so they didn't say the word "gay" but it's really, really not subtle. Steve compares what Arnie feels for his "roommate" Michael to what Steve feels for his girlfriend Bernie. Yeah.)

I previously made a Tumblr post about Brian and Roger, rounding up some of the canonical evidence of their relationship, but that post is six years old now, and in the intervening years, Marvel has thoughtfully put the rest of the 70s Invaders run on Unlimited as well as the two Citizen V miniseries that star Roger and retcon his relationship with Brian as romantic. So I've read them now, and I've got panels.

Okay. I should probably begin by saying that Brian and Roger are not canonically gay in their first significant appearance together, which is in Invaders vol 1 #19 and #20, published in 1977. Roy Thomas does not seem to have intended them to be a couple, and they aren't canonically one in any of the original Invaders run. However, if you enjoy gay subtext, it's very nice.

This whole arc is the one that introduces Roger in modern canon. He's been brainwashed by the Nazis and the Invaders rescue him and get him back to his normal self. But in #19 we get his backstory in flashback, as related by Montgomery, Lord Falsworth (Brian's father; yes, MCU fans, the name should look familiar) and it turns out that Roger and Brian were basically best friends since childhood:

They were the dearest of friends!

Anyway, they both ended up captured by Nazis, they presumably changed their minds about appeasement as a policy, Brian got out and joined the Invaders, then they had to rescue the brainwashed Roger, and it's a fair amount of fun in a two-issue arc.

The subtext is even more prominent in Invaders #34, in which they find out that someone going by the Destroyer (which is Roger's codename) has been doing villainous deeds, and the Invaders worry that Roger's gotten himself brainwashed again. Brian immediately insists that it can't really be Roger because he knows Roger and Roger Would Never:

Unsurprisingly, Brian is right. It's not really Roger; Master Man is impersonating the Destroyer, and the villains have taken Roger captive, and the Invaders break him out and there is an extremely significant moment where it just so happens that Roger has to catch Brian, saving his life for a change, and they stare deeply into each other's eyes and Brian seems to be having difficulty finishing his sentences:

Some people who read this therefore concluded that Brian and Roger were extremely gay for each other. While ordinarily this sort of shipping is mostly confined to fandom, in this particular instance, one of the people who started shipping Brian/Roger was Fabian Nicieza, and Fabian Nicieza, as you probably know, writes comics for Marvel. I think you see where this is going.

However, first I must inform you that, sadly, Brian has been canonically dead for years. Captain America vol 1 #253-254 -- the two-parter about Baron Blood in the Stern/Byrne Cap run in the 80s -- establishes that Brian died in a car accident in 1953. (This is also the run where Joseph Chapman -- a friend of Jacqueline Falsworth's son Kenneth -- becomes the third (and current) Union Jack.)

(Roger then appears in a bunch of T-Bolts issues; I assume there's nothing interesting there on the gay front because I feel like someone would have told me. I should probably read more than three T-Bolts issues someday.)

So, anyway, in 2001, Fabian Nicieza wrote a miniseries called Citizen V and the V-Battalion. Roger, who is still superheroing as the Destroyer despite being pretty old by this point, is part of the titular V-Battalion, and he has a very prominent role in this miniseries. And in #1, we have the usual splash page of character backstory, and there's a very, um, interesting line there:

Regarding Brian and Roger's relationship, the narration informs us: "It sounds much gayer than it probably was."

This is interesting, obviously for a couple of reasons. One is that, up to this point in canon, as far as I can tell, literally nobody thought any of this sounded the slightest bit gay at all. (Other than, I guess, Fabian Nicieza.) The other reason is that, as we soon find out, it actually was as gay as it sounds. Thanks, Fabian!

In 2002, Nicieza wrote a second miniseries, Citizen V and the V-Battalion: The Everlasting. Issue #1 opens with a flashback set in 1953; specifically, we see Brian's funeral:

Roger is extremely sad, and when Lord Falsworth expresses his sympathy about the death of Roger's "friend" and saying that he knows how much this hurts him, Roger mutters under his breath that he doesn't have the slightest clue:

All is revealed on the next page, when one of the other characters tries to ask Roger about superhero business and Roger snaps at him because, as he says, "I just watched my friend die in my arms."

Except "friend" isn't the word he starts to say:

Yep. That would be "lover." So Roger nearly outs himself. So, yes, now it's absolutely canon. Hooray.

Later on in the issue, which is set in the present day, we have a couple pages of Roger staring at pictures of the two of them and continuing to be sad:

Yeah. They were a couple.

So the question you -- being a Captain America fan -- might ask yourself is, okay, did/does Steve know about any of this? (The reason I started looking all this up was because I wanted to know if Steve knew.) I don't know if we have a panel of Roger specifically admitting any of this to Steve (and if we do, I would like to know about it), but I would be comfortable saying that Steve probably knew back then -- because, well, he seems like the kind of guy who would actually have been fine with it in the 40s, what with all his gay friends -- and also that I can't think of a reason why he wouldn't know now. Because he's definitely worked with Roger again in fairly recent comics, and also Roger is very much out, these days.

In fact, New Invaders #4 (2004) opens with Roger attending Pride:

So, yeah, he's out.

(Then he has to fight, as far as I can tell, homophobic Nazi vampires. They're yelling slurs in German. Great.)

In All-New Invaders #10, which is from 2014 (and which is not the same series as New Invaders), Roger shows up to help out the Invaders, and in passing, he just happens to mention to another character (Joseph Chapman, the current Union Jack), that he is in fact gay:

He and Joseph don't really like each other much; as far as I can tell, their acquaintance in New Invaders consists of Joseph being vaguely homophobic and Roger being bitter about him being Union Jack because he actually wanted to be Union Jack himself to honor Brian's memory -- you know, that thing superheroes sometimes like to do to honor their dead superhero significant others, viz. Hank when Jan was dead after Secret Invasion -- and now Union Jack is this annoying kid and not, y'know, the love of his life. This exchange from New Invaders #4 seems pretty representative of their relationship:

Anyway, yeah, he's pretty obviously out.

Steve isn't actually present for this conversation in All-New Invaders, but he mentions in a later issue of this run that he knows what Roger and his pals have been up to, plot-wise, so I feel comfortable assuming that he's talked to Roger at some point in the previous ten years or so, and therefore, since Roger is completely out at this point in canon, there's no reason Steve shouldn't know now.

On an unrelated note, it's also a fun issue if you're a Steve/Tony fan because this is clearly running in parallel with Hickman's Avengers run, which means that he spends half a page telling Namor that he's mad at him and the rest of the Illuminati (but mostly mad at Tony because... he's just obsessed with Tony in this run, I guess?) about the mindwipe:

This is the sum total of my knowledge about Brian and Roger. No, wait, I know one more thing, which is that Brian was a character in the late, lamented mobile game Avengers Academy, in which he was also actually gay; Roger does not seem to have been there. There's a CBR article that you can read about the whole thing, which mentions some of these details from the comics in passing. (I have no idea why it says that their relationship was alluded to in the Stern/Byrne run; unless I missed something big, the only thing those issues do is establish Brian's death. As far as I can tell, no one is gay in them.)

So, yeah, that's Brian Falsworth and Roger Aubrey, the two gay Invaders. Steve sure has a lot of gay friends.

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justdealingwithsomeissues · 11 months

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A very generic cover... also it is interesting how much these books all crossover, like pretty much NONE of them are off doing their own things entirely... all of them have to either tie in with a US hero or into one of the other books or most often, both...

#Marvel #Marvel UK #Joseph Chapman ~ Union Jack #Francesca Grace #Peter Hunter ~ Albion #Adam Crown #Breeze James #Peter Parker ~ Spider Man

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imperiuswrecked · 2 years

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Have Lilly Cromwell, a forgotten vampirism foe of the Invaders and V-Battalion (most specifically Roger Aubrey lover of Brian Falsworth) return once more as Baroness Blood and have her kill Steve, leading to an Invaders/V-Battalion/MI13 funeral with Blade, Lady Jacqueline (Blade's on/off girlfriend from their time on MI13 as well as an Invader (she'd bring Blade along)), Namor, Jim, Bucky (he snd Blade did team up briefly), Joseph Chapman (current Union Jack), and Roger go after her for Steve

Now I just need Marvel to hire you to write it because yes I want that.

#invaders #imp answers #we need a good invaders revenge plot

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nitpickrider · 1 year

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It really is a shame Union Jack isn't a more prominent character because there's just something special about seeing him and Cap teaming up to beat Nazi ass.

#marvel #marvel comics #marvel universe #marvel heroes #superhero #comics #captain america #steve rogers #baron blood #john falsworth #union jack #joseph chapman

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fortwayneinfo · 3 years

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Fun in the Sand

Fort Wayne, Indiana is one of the largest cities in the Midwest region, nestled between the southern suburbs of Chicago and the North shore of Lake Michigan. The city is named after General George Henry Ford, who led the Fort while commanding the army of the United States during the Civil War. His reputation as a military leader is what continues to attract hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. Besides Ford, other notable figures of the past have kept this city among the most popular in the world.

The city of Fort Wayne was named for General George Henry Ford, a decorated military leader who led the American Civil War. Early settlers and Native Americans called Fort Wayne a crossing point due to its strategic position at the confluence of three rivers - the St. Joseph, the St. Mary's and the river of the Ozarks. It served as an important supply base for the Union Army throughout the war. General George S. Patton, the famous world war two commander, also had his headquarters here. Today, the city is considered a national historic site. A visit to Fort Wayne has become synonymous with sporting events because it is the site of the historic Summer Olympics held every four years in the mid-section of the city.

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Fort Wayne is also a favorite spot for artists that want to showcase their work. Rap artist like 50 cent and J.I. Cash reside in the area and country music stars like Eric Clapton have recordings created acoustic spots such as the Fort Wayne recording studio. Rock bands as well as DJs spin records in Fort Wayne. A popular radio station has even been marketed specifically to cater to the rock fan base.

Sports events are abundant in Fort Wayne and you will find your favorite NBA, NFL, or college sports team here. The Fort Wayne Pistons play at the Palace of Fine Foods inside the downtown area, while the Fort Wayne Cowboys play at RFK Stadium. You will also find auto racing and large scale theme parks in Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne has seen a recent resurgence in popularity with football teams moving into the city. A popular auto racing group, the "Wicked Wheel Racing Pigskin Band", has held races at the Circuit of the Americas and also at Sand Raceway Park.

Fort Wayne is an excellent city to live in for any age. It offers entertainment, recreation, dining, cultural activities, and sports. The winter months offer fun activities including winter tubing, sledding, and skiing. The summer brings beach activities, water parks, shopping, concerts, and baseball.

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