Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers, is training with the Avengers and is being overly aggressive. Tony Stark pulls her aside to talk to her about why and she confesses that it's because of Father's Day. Her dad was an alcoholic and not always a good dad. He tells her to take some time off and go home to Harpswell Sound and visit with her mom and brother Joe Jr. She also reconnects with Little Louis who isn't so little anymore and is running the local donut store.
Her and Joe Jr. have words about her not being there when dad was sick and not being there much since. Carol points out that Joe always sticks up for dad even though he did some terrible things. They are at the cemetery at his grave having this argument when Joe, who had been drinking, drives off and crashes his car. Carol saves his life, but he's in a coma and paralyzed. Instead of going back to the Avengers she stays with her mother and helps to take care of Joe.
Then she stumbles upon some old love letters her dad wrote to a woman and a mechanical device that she inadvertently turns on which is a beacon that leads to the Krill home planet and leads a woman to head toward Earth. Is she the woman her dad had the affair with? Or is she someone dangerous to the family? When she arrives she has come to fight Carol's mother who is really Mari-El and a Krill. So, Carol really got her powers from her mother, not Marv-el. The woman takes Joe and mother and daughter must fight to get him back.
This comic was incredible in its depth of characterization. Carol dealing with her family issues and finding out about the truth about her parents and learning what led to her father's drinking and perhaps leading to some understanding and forgiveness of her father. The artwork was also amazing for example when Tony appears in electrical ghostlike form to talk to Carol about coming back to the Avengers. Or the black and white funeral scene that is haunting. This is a great book and I give it five out of five stars.
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