This was not what I was expecting at all, and I really, really liked it! Each volume in this series has been different, so you really don’t need to read them in any particular order, but this one in particular stands on its own. It’s told from the POV of Spider-Girl, Anya Corazon (who wanted her superhero name to be Araña, but no one could pronounce it properly). It could have ended up cutesy, what with the whole point of the story being that Anya […]
Bro, what are you, bro?
Why wasn’t this Clint Barton in the Avengers movies? Seriously? This Clint Barton is awesome!!! Have I told you about how I have a thing for (fictional) bad boy, smartass, not fully on the right side of the law heros? Matt Fraction’s Clint Barton is exactly that. He doesn’t really consider himself one of the Avengers, and he’s no Captain America boyscout do-gooder, but he does do the right things. He does them with arrows and attitude. This run isn’t about Clint being Hawkeye the […]
I love everything about this.
I was a pretty big fan of the first Ms. Marvel starring Kamala Khan, but it seems now that Wilson has Kamala’s origin story out of the way, it’s really just time to have some fun. I LOVED this. Kamala is adorable. I love her stupid face. She’s sweet and funny and enthusiastic and deadpan and so determined. A lot of it is that Kamala is so young. She’s only sixteen and full of notions about what a superhero should be. She’s still learning her […]
The real first volume of Kelly Sue DeConnick’s Captain Marvel run.
I may have shot myself in the foot with this one by reading out of order, and then again, maybe I didn’t. Confusingly, Captain Marvel, Vol. 1: Higher, Further, Faster, More is not actually the first volume of Kelly Sue DeConnick’s run with Captain Marvel. This one is. And it’s in this volume that Carol Danvers, previously Ms. Marvel, swaps out her black leotard and thigh-highs for a sensible and badass red and blue costume and a blonde mohawk-type thing that sticks out of her […]