Marvel is pretty funny (she threw a cat at him, sending them hurling across space and time). He’s a bit more interesting, and his previous run in with Ms. Strange) a mystic wielding time-traveling sorcerer. The next two deal with a returning villain – the Traveler (apparently UK’s answer to Dr. She ends up absorbing the crystal blast and sends him reeling into space, and it’s all over in three quick issues. Marvel is a day light and a dollar short throughout this story. A new player to the field, weird blue alien Cru arrives and steals a crystal from a military base, which also gets destroyed – Ms. Marvel is easily powerful enough to take on most foes by herself. She battles them off in spectacularly cool fashion, and we quickly learn that Ms.
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Her first adventure has her responding to a crashed alien ship full of Brood that have unleashed hell on a small town. She turns down Captain America’s official offer when recruiting for the New Avengers and strikes out on her own, though her numerous Avengers contacts certainly help. She was the world’s most popular and beloved superhero, and that’s given her motivation to actually try and achieve that goal.
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Thankfully this solo series (her first since the 70s) was launched a few months after House of M. “Best of the Best” introduces us to the stalwart superhero who’s just come off the high of that alternate world.
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Marvel’s mind and she ends up gaining cosmic-level powers and becoming Binary, then joining the Avengers in the late 90s as Warbird.Ĭarol’s had a rocky road but with a new Marvel movie coming out in a few years I wanted to know more about her. Marvel came from Rogue’s famous encounter, where she permanently stole her powers of flight and super strength – leaving Carol Danvers in a coma, and creating the Rogue character most recognizable in the 80s/90s and the animated series. Thankfully her solo series, launched in 2006, doesn’t bother with all the hand-wringing and complex backstory, and instead focuses on the confident woman that earnestly strives to be the best damn superhero she can be.Īs an Air Force pilot, Danvers was given her powers from a Kree DNA-altering blast with Captain Marvel in the 70s, and her buxom blonde looks and can-do, all-American attitude definitely reflect that Silver Age of comics she was born into. Marvel, aka Captain Marvel, aka Warbird, aka Binary, has had a fairly complicated and confusing history, most of which I know absolutely nothing about. You’ve been warned!Īrtists: Robert de la Torre, Mike Wieringo Like my gaming Final Thoughts, this will be full of spoilers. Thanks in large part to trade paperbacks and the digital convenience of Marvel Unlimited I can make relatively quick progress, and I’ll write down my Final Thoughts for each collection here on my blog. Thus begins my grand catching-up of the last ten years of Marvel comics, events and stories. I grew up a big fan of X-Men and other superheroes but haven’t really kept up since the 90s. With Marvel’s popular and successful foray into films with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I’ve finally decided to get back into comics.
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