It was released as a set of eight one-shot issues between March and May 2014, and was created to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the end of Marvel UK's short-lived attempt to break into the American comic market, addressing several story points that had been left unresolved due to the mass cancellation of the imprint in 1994.

Revolutionary War meanwhile followed up on characters from cancelled titles Dark Angel, Knights of Pendragon, Death's Head II, Super Soldiers, Motormouth and Killpower and Warheads.

However, for space reasons they were unable to feature all the characters they wanted, with Black Axe, Death Wreck and Wild Thing among those that missed the cut.

[12] While Captain Britain and Pete Wisdom were created separately from the 1990s-era Marvel UK characters, Lanning included both in the story as he felt it would be "sacrilege" to do a British-set series without them.

[14] The storyline was released across eight one-shots - Revolutionary War: Alpha was issued in January 2014, followed by the six individual titles and closer Omega in March.

's Nick Fury and Agent Keller at The Shard, where they explain the incident is one of several recent revivals of Mys-Tech bases, despite the organisation having seemingly been defeated when an alliance of British superheroes foiled their attempt to sacrifice the population of Britain to Mephisto at the Battle of London Bridge.

Captain Britain meanwhile travels to Darkmoor Castle to recruit Dark Angel - only to be attacked and captured by erstwhile ally Death's Head II.

[18] In the Lake District, former Knights of Pendragon Dai Thomas and Kate McLellan are investigating an Omni Corporation fracking operation, while their old team-mate Union Jack takes Wisdom to Avalon so they can warn Albion of Mys-Tech's return.

[19] Death's Head II delivers Captain Britain to Psycho-Wraith Prime at Darkmoor Research Centre, only for Mys-Tech to renege on the deal and send their troops to attack him.

[20] Three of the Super Soldiers - Guvnor, Gog and Dalton - are starring in a film about themselves in Scotland, with their leader Major Hauer as technical advisor.

Wisdom arrives on set to warn them of Mys-Tech's return shortly before the Psycho-Wraiths Killmuzzle, Big Gunz and Andrea DWarKin attack Edinburgh.

However, it is a trap - Keller has also been taken over by Mys-Tech, who plan to use the captured Captain Britain, Dark Angel, Dai Thomas, Death's Head, Albion and Hauer to power a new Monotrace Core, only needing Swinburne to complete the process of bringing Hell to London - led by Mephisto's new chosen one, the corrupted Killpower.

[23] Killpower leads Mephisto's army through the Core's main wormhole into the Shard, opposed by Wisdom and a rag-tag group of British-based heroes.

[24] Jesse Schedeen reviewed Revolutionary War: Alpha for IGN and was also broadly impressed, feeling the issue did well to deliver a large amount of exposition required for the story.