Clever, insightful, and redolent with the almost-mythical values of a seemingly-simple time, Captain Carter combines the historic and the modern skilfully and pleasingly.
The younger Avengers became Cap’s surrogate for the family he might have had in a kinder world, and it’s a tribute to Lee’s skill as a writer that Cap’s parental love for his protégés (tempered with impatience!) was tacitly evident.
It remains to be seen if Gillen can actually make the Eternals work. But this is perhaps as good a start as we could have hoped for.
A different take from previous versions of Black Widow, but worth following.
For comics novices, Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters do a good job.
“Batgirling” at its finest, Patsy Walker a.k.a. Hellcat gives new vigour to one of Marvel’s longest-established heroines.
A fun, but ultimately slight coda to Kelly Sue DeConnick’s excellent Captain Marvel run.
Go ahead and make the new Captain America a Hasidic Cyborg Freegan, by all means. Fancy a Thor who’s a Latina paraplegic with a knitwear fixation? Have at it! But this once, Marvel, when you’ve Got It Right – don’t mess it up!
Sisters…. ain’t quite doing it for themselves…
I’ll be straight with you. In my head, anyone who isn’t Steve Gerber writing Howard The Duck is tantamount to comics blasphemy to me…
