The Mighty Captain Marvel #1

The Mighty Captain Marvel #1

Carol Danvers was an Air Force pilot but after encounter with alien tech gained her powers and became.. The Mighty Captain Marvel.

After the events in Civil War II we see a Captain Marvel suffering alienation from the superhero world, due to her friends either being dead or just not wanting to speak to her after her actions. She comes across in this book as stern, well-coordinated, eager to make a difference. She’s basically what you would think Captain America is.

The book is written by Margaret Stohl and is her first full length comic book. Stohl started with Marvel only recently (2015) with some Black Widow but has moved very quickly to a mainstream ongoing title. It’s an interesting but perhaps unsurprising move by Marvel in an attempt to attract more young adults particularly girls to the genre. Stohl’s previous work includes writing young adult fiction series, the Caster Chronicles of which there are four books now as well as a movie.

It’s not the first time we’ve seen Marvel get a female writer to write a female comic which seems to feature empowerment themes on every 2nd page. It’s surely a good thing to normalise the genre for girls but from my point of view reading it can get stale.

It’s like she has too much .. something. It’s like if you’ve ever watched a show on Discovery and the narrator keeps saying “and you won’t believe what happens next” but not in a cheesy unnecessarily crap way but in a we’re-trying-to-be-serious-but-DC-does-it-better way.

Basically Captain Marvel is her own Discovery Channel narrator…

And you won’t believe what happens next...

The Mighty Captain Marvel #1 is out today.