I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates.The more knowledge the better seems like a solid rule of thumb, even though I have watched enough science fiction films to accept that humanity’s unchecked pursuit of learning will end with robots taking over the world.-Sarah Vowell

Monday, May 11, 2020

Captain Marvel Vol 1: Re-Entry by Kelly Thomson (Writer), Carmen Carnero (Artist), Tamra Bonvillain (Colorist), VC's Clayton Cowles (Letterer)


Carol has had a rough year with her brother suffering a life-threatening injury that caused her to step down from Avengers and the Space Defense Program Alpha Flight to take care of him. Then Kree assassins killed her mother who had been hiding as a Kree warrior this whole time.  Her brother recovered and Carol had decided it is time to get back out there.

Carol is friends with Jess, Spider-Woman and they take down a giant monster that Tony Stark takes away with a group of Iron Men. The two agree to meet up later after Carol has a meeting with Tony where he "lays down the law" with her and insists that she does an interview for public perception since she's been in space all this time and no one could see what heroic deeds she was doing.  Carol gives in on the interview.  But Tony also wants her to play mentor to Jennifer Takeda, aka Hazmat, who needed a new suit and came to Tony for one.   She leaks nuclear chemicals.  She goes for a touristy walk.

Carol meets up with Rhodey and has dinner with him.  They catch up and wonder what if? Then the woman from the magazine shows up to do the interview and Carol is trying to reschedule it when she gets blasted by Nuclear Man.  Rhodey calls in backup which at first seems ridiculous, but then Nuclear Man rebounds and grabs the reporter and takes her through a portal in the street.  Carol follows them through. When she arrives on the other side, there are Jess and Jennifer and other women. She punches Nuclear Man clean to the other side of the island.  The Avenger men try to get through the portal but it knocks them back.  While time is moving fast on the island it is moving slowly back on the other side of the portal. 

Some of the women don't have their powers for some reason, like Hazmat and Spider-Woman is missing some of her powers.  Echo has been running things down there and they have one man rescued from the group of men who are loved ones of the women.  Som, the man, provides intel on what goes on back at the base and how to defeat them.  But Carol doesn't completely trust Som. She thinks he's hiding something and she's right. 

Jen, She-Hulk breaks through the barrier but her powers don't work.  Still, she's a welcome sight.  Nuclear Man has something special in store for Carol that she might not be able to handle.  Will the women are able to find a way to break down the portal and get free and break Nuclear Man's hold on the island?  There are a lot of great characters in this comic and it's very female-centric which I enjoyed.  This was a fabulous book and I give it five out of five stars.

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