Status
Available
Collection
Publication
Marvel (2013), Edition: 3rd Printing, 136 pages
Description
The "Mightiest" of Earth's Mightiest Heroes is back! Ace pilot. Legendary Avenger. One hundred percent pure bad. Carol Danvers has a new name, a new mission - and all the power she needs to make her own life a living hell. As the new Captain Marvel, Carol is forging from a challenge from her past! It's a firefight in the sky as the Banshee Squadron debut - but who are the Prowlers, and where has Carol seen them before? And how does secret NASA training program Mercury 13 fit in? Witness Captain Marvel in blazing battlefield action that just may change the course of history! Avengers Time Travel Protocols: engage!.
User reviews
LibraryThing member DanieXJ
I've never really read too much about Ms. Marvel aka Carol Danvers. I knew about who she was though a few of the Avengers Comics, but not much else. This title, her first in her new role as Captain Marvel was awesome, and made me realize just how much I was missing.
Carol Danvers is such a great
I liked some of the art at the beginning. The darks and lights and shadows were awesome, but, then at the end of this TPB there was an issue that just seemed like chicken scratch art that I really, really didn't like.
Overall though it was a great story and a great TPB.
Carol Danvers is such a great
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character, and Kelly Sue DeConnick makes her both sassy and strong, but not bitchy. It's also an excellent introduction to the character (at least it was for me). We get to know both the current incarnation of Carol Danvers, but also quite a bit about her pas and her origin story without it seeming like an 'Origin Story'.I liked some of the art at the beginning. The darks and lights and shadows were awesome, but, then at the end of this TPB there was an issue that just seemed like chicken scratch art that I really, really didn't like.
Overall though it was a great story and a great TPB.
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LibraryThing member Lil_Shepherd
Interesting and clever time travel script exploring Carol's motivation, with a strong line of feminism. Shame about the art, though - very clever but low on visual storytelling and drawing human features (I had trouble recognising Captain America for pity's sake!)
LibraryThing member kayceel
An awesome story about regret, guilt, and all-around badassery. And, finally, a superhero costume for a woman that is awesome...
Highly Recommended
Highly Recommended
LibraryThing member rodhilton
I wanted to like this book a lot more than I did. I'm a sucker for strong female heroines, and I particularly like the idea of making Ms. Marvel in particular the new Captain Marvel, not only because she takes the title from a man, but because Carol Danvers has a particularly complex history in
The book starts out great, with Ms. Marvel fighting side-by-side with Captain America. She's a complete bad-ass, sassing ol' Cap constantly and explaining at one point she outranks him. She struggles a bit with the idea of adopting the Captain Marvel mantle, but at the end decides "I'm taking the damn name" in a full-page frame that is iconic and timeless.
After this, however, things go downhill. Not for character reasons, Danvers stays a strong, badass protagonist that I really enjoyed. No, they go downhill because the story becomes extremely convoluted, with time travel and wormholes and worrying about meeting her other self and all sorts of crazy weirdness. Frankly I found it confusing, and it made it hard to focus on the story because it just seemed so convoluted and weird.
The first issue is a fantastic introduction to this character, and is an absolute must-read, particularly if Captain Marvel is to become, as I suspect, the poster child for strong female heroes in the Marvel universe. But unfortunately, the remaining 5 issues collected into Volume 1 are each worse than the previous one, ending with one that was so poorly written I could barely believe it was done by the same people who created the amazing first issue.
The art, it must be said, is stunning, at least for the first 3 issues. It's a very unique visual style that I don't think I've really seen before, and it should be called out as being particularly cool.
All in all, not bad, and the first issue is so excellent it makes up for the increasingly lackluster remaining issues, but I really hope the next volume is better.
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terms of feminism within comic books, what with being basically raped and having the Avengers largely not care many decades ago.The book starts out great, with Ms. Marvel fighting side-by-side with Captain America. She's a complete bad-ass, sassing ol' Cap constantly and explaining at one point she outranks him. She struggles a bit with the idea of adopting the Captain Marvel mantle, but at the end decides "I'm taking the damn name" in a full-page frame that is iconic and timeless.
After this, however, things go downhill. Not for character reasons, Danvers stays a strong, badass protagonist that I really enjoyed. No, they go downhill because the story becomes extremely convoluted, with time travel and wormholes and worrying about meeting her other self and all sorts of crazy weirdness. Frankly I found it confusing, and it made it hard to focus on the story because it just seemed so convoluted and weird.
The first issue is a fantastic introduction to this character, and is an absolute must-read, particularly if Captain Marvel is to become, as I suspect, the poster child for strong female heroes in the Marvel universe. But unfortunately, the remaining 5 issues collected into Volume 1 are each worse than the previous one, ending with one that was so poorly written I could barely believe it was done by the same people who created the amazing first issue.
The art, it must be said, is stunning, at least for the first 3 issues. It's a very unique visual style that I don't think I've really seen before, and it should be called out as being particularly cool.
All in all, not bad, and the first issue is so excellent it makes up for the increasingly lackluster remaining issues, but I really hope the next volume is better.
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LibraryThing member KVHardy
I am now a big fan of Kelly Sue DeConnick.
LibraryThing member heroineinabook
tl;dr summary: 2012 reboot of Captain Marvel, I really wanted Captain Marvel to be my superhero. Sadly, the convoluted and confusing story lines, dropped plot points, and inconsistent art (within a single artist) turned this hero into a has been.
Review: Captain Marvel is not my superhero.
But I
After working at a book store for a number of years and then becoming a librarian, superhero graphic novels are the one comic that has always eluded me. The reasons are fairly simple: Derivative storylines, change of artists/writers, inconsistent plots and arcs, layered and cross over stories, and ALL OF THOSE GODDAMN VARIANTS drove me insane when purchasing graphic novels for the bookstore. A few years later when I took up the graphic novel collection at GRCC, I made the concrete decision to not stock superhero for the very same reasons.
Perhaps it is easier buying the trades as opposed to the weeklies, but when there doesn’t seem to be a thread holding some of the storylines together, it still seemed more aggravating than not.
Marvel jumped on the bandwagon when DC announced it was rebooting its entire universe back in 2012. This was the perfect opportunity for those like me frustrated with the previous systems to start getting our feet wet with superhero books. I picked up on Captain Marvel because she’s supposedly a bad ass female, which is totally up my alley. At the beginning of In Pursuit of Flight, She’s tussling after a big baddie with Captain America who tells her,
You have led the Avengers. You have saved the world. Quit being an adjunct.
ORLY.
After the tussling, we find out Captain Marvel is having an identity crisis. The whole send up of In Pursuit of Flight is Captain Marvel finding herself and forging ahead her future. This sound well and good but then time travel is thrown in, possible evil plot, and some tear jerking moment with one her mentors. The storyline felt uneven and confused. Too much was being thrown against the wall with the hope it would stick while under the guise of sorting out Carol Danver’s new backstory.
Dexter Soy drew the first four chapters while Emma Rios drew the last two. Soy’s version of Captain Marvel (and really any of the other characters) as hyper sexualized. In my notes I mark the roundness and plumpness of Captain Marvel’s ass and then a bit of marginalia that Soy treated Captain America in the same way. The coloring was just oozing with dark, rich royal colors. It made the scenes atmospheric, as if it needed to make up for what was being lost by the words.
Once you get to Emma Rios’ books, the characters that were so overly lush in books 1-4 now look emaciated and overly angular, you almost don’t want to meet any of the characters on the street for fear of being killed by a sharp elbow. But the mood of Rios’ work seems more inline with the story and fits it much better.
At the end of the book there is a four page, tightly written and set back story of Carol Danvers from her origin until this book. And that seemed wholly unnecessary (and often contradictory) to what had happened earlier in this sequence or in the book itself.
There is one more volume in this reboot, THEN THEY REBOOTED IT AGAIN.
That should give you some idea of how much of a hot mess the first reboot was.
Review: Captain Marvel is not my superhero.
But I
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wanted her to be.After working at a book store for a number of years and then becoming a librarian, superhero graphic novels are the one comic that has always eluded me. The reasons are fairly simple: Derivative storylines, change of artists/writers, inconsistent plots and arcs, layered and cross over stories, and ALL OF THOSE GODDAMN VARIANTS drove me insane when purchasing graphic novels for the bookstore. A few years later when I took up the graphic novel collection at GRCC, I made the concrete decision to not stock superhero for the very same reasons.
Perhaps it is easier buying the trades as opposed to the weeklies, but when there doesn’t seem to be a thread holding some of the storylines together, it still seemed more aggravating than not.
Marvel jumped on the bandwagon when DC announced it was rebooting its entire universe back in 2012. This was the perfect opportunity for those like me frustrated with the previous systems to start getting our feet wet with superhero books. I picked up on Captain Marvel because she’s supposedly a bad ass female, which is totally up my alley. At the beginning of In Pursuit of Flight, She’s tussling after a big baddie with Captain America who tells her,
You have led the Avengers. You have saved the world. Quit being an adjunct.
ORLY.
After the tussling, we find out Captain Marvel is having an identity crisis. The whole send up of In Pursuit of Flight is Captain Marvel finding herself and forging ahead her future. This sound well and good but then time travel is thrown in, possible evil plot, and some tear jerking moment with one her mentors. The storyline felt uneven and confused. Too much was being thrown against the wall with the hope it would stick while under the guise of sorting out Carol Danver’s new backstory.
Dexter Soy drew the first four chapters while Emma Rios drew the last two. Soy’s version of Captain Marvel (and really any of the other characters) as hyper sexualized. In my notes I mark the roundness and plumpness of Captain Marvel’s ass and then a bit of marginalia that Soy treated Captain America in the same way. The coloring was just oozing with dark, rich royal colors. It made the scenes atmospheric, as if it needed to make up for what was being lost by the words.
Once you get to Emma Rios’ books, the characters that were so overly lush in books 1-4 now look emaciated and overly angular, you almost don’t want to meet any of the characters on the street for fear of being killed by a sharp elbow. But the mood of Rios’ work seems more inline with the story and fits it much better.
At the end of the book there is a four page, tightly written and set back story of Carol Danvers from her origin until this book. And that seemed wholly unnecessary (and often contradictory) to what had happened earlier in this sequence or in the book itself.
There is one more volume in this reboot, THEN THEY REBOOTED IT AGAIN.
That should give you some idea of how much of a hot mess the first reboot was.
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LibraryThing member SESchend
Great revisiting and retooling of a character long overdue and worthy of both. Kudos to Marvel on this move. Let's hope they keep her in this role for a while and get a movie or three out of Carol.
LibraryThing member greeniezona
I did this backwards. Somehow I ended up following DeConnick on tumblr before I'd ever read any of her comics. I really liked her from her tumblr, then was surprised to find the library didn't have anything by her, especially as it seems she's fairly prolific. So I suggested this volume as a
It seems that I can finally lay to rest both my declaration to be taking a break from superhero comics and also the need to apologize/explain when I keep going back. Because I'm definitely following both this and Hawkeye, and will probably look into other titles written by DeConnick & Fraction.
This volume was basically everything I'd come to expect from DeConnick's tumblr and more. A rich variety of female characters, not just now but across time. Some who liked each other, some who tolerated each other, and some who thought they liked each other until their agendas came into conflict. There is one kind of fanservicey shot of Ms. Marvel's ass that made me roll my eyes, but as there was an equal opportunity shot of Captain America on the facing page, I'll let it slide. This volume also does an above average job of what every new reboot has to do: manage to introduce enough backstory while simultaneously moving the story forward so that new readers feel neither lost not bored.
There are a lot of fantastical elements: time travel, alien technology, superpower transfers. But Carol (Ms./Captain Marvel) is so human/humane that it balances out.
A great first volume. I'm very curious to see where this series goes.
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library purchase, and was pleased when it came in pretty quickly.It seems that I can finally lay to rest both my declaration to be taking a break from superhero comics and also the need to apologize/explain when I keep going back. Because I'm definitely following both this and Hawkeye, and will probably look into other titles written by DeConnick & Fraction.
This volume was basically everything I'd come to expect from DeConnick's tumblr and more. A rich variety of female characters, not just now but across time. Some who liked each other, some who tolerated each other, and some who thought they liked each other until their agendas came into conflict. There is one kind of fanservicey shot of Ms. Marvel's ass that made me roll my eyes, but as there was an equal opportunity shot of Captain America on the facing page, I'll let it slide. This volume also does an above average job of what every new reboot has to do: manage to introduce enough backstory while simultaneously moving the story forward so that new readers feel neither lost not bored.
There are a lot of fantastical elements: time travel, alien technology, superpower transfers. But Carol (Ms./Captain Marvel) is so human/humane that it balances out.
A great first volume. I'm very curious to see where this series goes.
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LibraryThing member rabidgummibear
3 1/2
Enjoyable overall and I'm definitely finishing up this run of comics.
Enjoyable overall and I'm definitely finishing up this run of comics.
LibraryThing member gothamajp
Collecting the first six issues of the recent series where Carol Danvers took up the mantle of Captain Marvel this is a good introduction to the character and her motivations. A well told and thought out time-travel narrative is used to cover Carol’s back story while intertwining it with the role
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of pioneering female aviators In WW2 and the early days of the space program. Unfortunately the impact is lessened by the multiple different art-styles used none of which I liked, and in some cases I felt diminished the story. Show Less
LibraryThing member Kurt.Rocourt
That was bad. As in confusingly bad. I don't what the point of this story was. It was that bad.
LibraryThing member LibroLindsay
I loved both the darker, tenser art by Dexter Soy and the more classic feel with Emma Rios. The WWII plotline gave it a Captain America feel (just cuz), but in a way that made me think maybe I would like Captain America if he was a woman.
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LibraryThing member zot79
I was hoping this would be a good place to get familiar with this character in advance of the new movie. I was not disappointed. It's a pretty decent introduction to Captain Marvel, using time-travel to touch several the important events and characters in Carol Danvers' life. It also has an
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awesomely detailed biography in the back that runs several pages and attempts to lend some cohesion to the many stories that have been told using the character. It will be fun to see how much of this gets distilled into the Captain Marvel film and the subsequent follow-up to The Avengers Infinity War. Show Less
LibraryThing member mktoronto
Why is this only two stars? I knew nothing of the Marvel universe but felt compelled to check out Ms Marvel. Having run out of those to read I thought, what the hell, get to know Kamala's hero. So I went with this origin story. And I was completely underwhelmed. The artwork wasn't all that great
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and the story was ok but I didn't find it compelling. I can see why people appreciate her but this didn't convince me to really follow her story. I'll stick with my girl Diana. Show Less
Awards
Texas Maverick Graphic Novels Reading List (Selection — 2014)
NPR: Books We Love (2013)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2013
Physical description
10.25 inches
ISBN
0785165495 / 9780785165491