Status
Available
Collection
Publication
Marvel (2013), 136 pages
Description
Marvel NOW! Captain Marvel goes head to head with...Captain Marvel? Former Captain Monica Rambeau returns, but what's her problem with Earth's new Mightiest Hero? What threat is lurking below the ocean's surface? And can both Captain Marvels stop it before they get ship wrecked? Then: Carol finally returns home, but is changed. What is weakening Captain Marvel's powers? How will the lifelong high-flyer react when she discovers that she can no longer fly?
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LibraryThing member lweddle
Good stories and Soy's art is good, but Andrade's art is awful and brings the whole book down. It's a shame.
LibraryThing member rodhilton
I think I want to like Captain Marvel more than I actually do. I like the idea that she's a strong female superhero, she's not (terribly) oversexualized, she's funny, she's witty, she's a good leader... really, I love the idea of the new Captain Marvel. And yet, I can't seem to get into any of her
I think the problem I have is the problem I have with a lot of Marvel trades, which is that they seem to have no consideration for readers that don't spend every waking moment of their lives reading other Marvel books. So much stuff is referenced from elsewhere in the Marvel universe, it's extremely frustrating. I read the previous collection of Captain Marvel, Vol. 1, and I still had no idea who approximately half the characters were and what their relationships to each other were. Seriously, it's extremely frustrating, and it's not a comic book thing, because I almost never feel this way reading DC comics. It's a Marvel thing.
I've come to expect this sort of thing from Marvel, so I'm not docking the book a lot of points for that. My main beef with this book (aside from the fact that the first couple "issues" seem to have absolutely nothing to do with the rest, a common complaint for the these collected volumes) is honestly, the art. I hate to knock a book for making stylistic choices I don't like, but I absolutely hated, hated, hated Filipe Andrade's art, which is found in the last 4 issues of this collection. It looked like Æon Flux, fuck I couldn't stand it. Dexter Soy (the first two issues) is fine, but he seems to have gotten somewhat, I don't know, lazy? Compare the generic, cartoony illustrations of issue 8 with the first Captain Marvel issue 1. It's a shame, Captain Marvel started out with some of the best art I've seen in a comic book, and it's just gotten steadily worse.
Writing-wise, this is a great book (after the first two issues). It's a very personal story, in which Carol Danvers is basically told she has a growth in her brain, and that she'll die if she flies. Naturally, some bad guys try to make her fly, and start attacking her close friends to draw her out. Her struggle with her own self-confidence, and her loss of her "favorite" power is great, very humanizing. Carol is sarcastic and funny as usual, but she spends most of the book alone. I actually really like her interactions with "the boys" of the Marvel Universe, specifically the other Avengers. I know this is her standalone, but I would have liked a bit more team interaction, I think it always highlights Danvers's strengths.
Overall, pretty good, but I think I'm starting to lose interest in the Captain Marvel series. Not the character, who I think is awesome. Just the series.
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books.I think the problem I have is the problem I have with a lot of Marvel trades, which is that they seem to have no consideration for readers that don't spend every waking moment of their lives reading other Marvel books. So much stuff is referenced from elsewhere in the Marvel universe, it's extremely frustrating. I read the previous collection of Captain Marvel, Vol. 1, and I still had no idea who approximately half the characters were and what their relationships to each other were. Seriously, it's extremely frustrating, and it's not a comic book thing, because I almost never feel this way reading DC comics. It's a Marvel thing.
I've come to expect this sort of thing from Marvel, so I'm not docking the book a lot of points for that. My main beef with this book (aside from the fact that the first couple "issues" seem to have absolutely nothing to do with the rest, a common complaint for the these collected volumes) is honestly, the art. I hate to knock a book for making stylistic choices I don't like, but I absolutely hated, hated, hated Filipe Andrade's art, which is found in the last 4 issues of this collection. It looked like Æon Flux, fuck I couldn't stand it. Dexter Soy (the first two issues) is fine, but he seems to have gotten somewhat, I don't know, lazy? Compare the generic, cartoony illustrations of issue 8 with the first Captain Marvel issue 1. It's a shame, Captain Marvel started out with some of the best art I've seen in a comic book, and it's just gotten steadily worse.
Writing-wise, this is a great book (after the first two issues). It's a very personal story, in which Carol Danvers is basically told she has a growth in her brain, and that she'll die if she flies. Naturally, some bad guys try to make her fly, and start attacking her close friends to draw her out. Her struggle with her own self-confidence, and her loss of her "favorite" power is great, very humanizing. Carol is sarcastic and funny as usual, but she spends most of the book alone. I actually really like her interactions with "the boys" of the Marvel Universe, specifically the other Avengers. I know this is her standalone, but I would have liked a bit more team interaction, I think it always highlights Danvers's strengths.
Overall, pretty good, but I think I'm starting to lose interest in the Captain Marvel series. Not the character, who I think is awesome. Just the series.
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LibraryThing member Rosa.Mill
This volume starts with a story about Monica Rambeau coming back into Carol's life and transitions into a story about Carol being sick and possibly a little bit nuts? I wasn't thrilled with the road the story took. At first it felt frustrating to me that they made her sick. However the sickness all
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being part of dealing with a villain and the apartment eviction, etc all made it feel a little less "well it's a girl superhero so we have to hobble her" and more character development good story. I love the addition of Wendy and the superhero family feeling I got from the book. I'm still really enjoying the artwork in this series; it's gorgeous and feels stylized in a way that I think we're seeing more and more of. Show Less
LibraryThing member Rosa.Mill
This volume starts with a story about Monica Rambeau coming back into Carol's life and transitions into a story about Carol being sick and possibly a little bit nuts? I wasn't thrilled with the road the story took. At first it felt frustrating to me that they made her sick. However the sickness all
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being part of dealing with a villain and the apartment eviction, etc all made it feel a little less "well it's a girl superhero so we have to hobble her" and more character development good story. I love the addition of Wendy and the superhero family feeling I got from the book. I'm still really enjoying the artwork in this series; it's gorgeous and feels stylized in a way that I think we're seeing more and more of. Show Less
LibraryThing member Rosa.Mill
This volume starts with a story about Monica Rambeau coming back into Carol's life and transitions into a story about Carol being sick and possibly a little bit nuts? I wasn't thrilled with the road the story took. At first it felt frustrating to me that they made her sick. However the sickness all
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being part of dealing with a villain and the apartment eviction, etc all made it feel a little less "well it's a girl superhero so we have to hobble her" and more character development good story. I love the addition of Wendy and the superhero family feeling I got from the book. I'm still really enjoying the artwork in this series; it's gorgeous and feels stylized in a way that I think we're seeing more and more of. Show Less
LibraryThing member Rosa.Mill
This volume starts with a story about Monica Rambeau coming back into Carol's life and transitions into a story about Carol being sick and possibly a little bit nuts? I wasn't thrilled with the road the story took. At first it felt frustrating to me that they made her sick. However the sickness all
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being part of dealing with a villain and the apartment eviction, etc all made it feel a little less "well it's a girl superhero so we have to hobble her" and more character development good story. I love the addition of Wendy and the superhero family feeling I got from the book. I'm still really enjoying the artwork in this series; it's gorgeous and feels stylized in a way that I think we're seeing more and more of. Show Less
LibraryThing member DanieXJ
There were two stories in this TPB. In the first one Carol teams up with former Captain Marvel, Monica Rambeau. There’s quite a lot of banter which was great. They went up against quite a… creature too.
Then we sorta had a day in the life of Carol and it wasn’t a great day either. It was in
I liked both stories and the writing by DeConnick is always so great and so real. I also really liked the art in the first issues in this TPB, the art by Dexter Soy. But, I really, really didn’t like the other issues with art by Filipe Andrade. Just too raw a style for me.
Then we sorta had a day in the life of Carol and it wasn’t a great day either. It was in
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the second story that there was a medical mystery too and boy it was a doozy.I liked both stories and the writing by DeConnick is always so great and so real. I also really liked the art in the first issues in this TPB, the art by Dexter Soy. But, I really, really didn’t like the other issues with art by Filipe Andrade. Just too raw a style for me.
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LibraryThing member elenaj
The art for issues 9-12 was so much not to my taste that I only read issues 7 & 8.
LibraryThing member suzecate
While KSD's writing is in fine form as usual, the art is atrocious. Once Andrade takes over, Carol Danvers appears stripped of 30 pounds of muscle, has one knee about an inch wide and the other four. While this surreal-ethereal art might work for another story, it's a bad joke here.
LibraryThing member LibroLindsay
Good enough storyline though I wish it weren't so episodic. I wish Dexter Soy was kept on...Felipe Andrade's work just did NOT do it for me. Wide-set buggy eyes, limbs that shrivel into nothing. ??
LibraryThing member sarahlh
I wanted to give it a higher rating - the writing was on point, the action scenes well choreographed, and had cameos from faves like Monica Rambeau and Tony Stark (who at this point would probably blanch at seeing their names together) - but the artwork in the second half was so bad, I had to knock
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it down a star. Those issues were sketchy and unattractive and had some seriously wonky physiognomy/anatomy issues going on. Legs should not look like that, dude. Even if you are part Kree. Show Less
LibraryThing member wanderlustlover
Oh, thank God this book grew in this part, because I was beginning to grow a little worried about this book all through Vol. 1. But Vol. 2 marched in and showed me it was capable and growth, of amending the reverse gender whitewashing/bashing of book one, and made me laugh, smile, sigh, and nod
There are suddenly all the tenants. There's her tiny own "Pepper Potts" secretary. There's a whole collective of friends. There are men and women helping Carol, equally, both powered and not. I started being able to see this book on par with being able to stand up in the universe it was written in and not as a stand-apart Comic for Girls. I love Carol's best friends, human and superhuman.
I loved the story, and the power-pull back. I loved the epistolary note nature of the later one trying to keep on a schedule.
The only reason this book is missing it's last star, is that the art is all over the place in this one, and I, sadly, am a massive art lover.
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along. I love that the cast got exponentially bigger in this one. It's still at it's heart A Girl Power Comic, but it fleshed out. There are suddenly all the tenants. There's her tiny own "Pepper Potts" secretary. There's a whole collective of friends. There are men and women helping Carol, equally, both powered and not. I started being able to see this book on par with being able to stand up in the universe it was written in and not as a stand-apart Comic for Girls. I love Carol's best friends, human and superhuman.
I loved the story, and the power-pull back. I loved the epistolary note nature of the later one trying to keep on a schedule.
The only reason this book is missing it's last star, is that the art is all over the place in this one, and I, sadly, am a massive art lover.
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LibraryThing member zot79
Not quite as enjoyable as the previous volume. Too many random callbacks and references for a newby reader.
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2013
Physical description
10.25 inches
ISBN
9780785165507
UPC
783324849561