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A review by seriouslybookedup
Captain Marvel, Vol. 1: Rise of Alpha Flight by Michele Fazekas, Kris Anka, Tara Butters, Felipe Smith
3.0
I’ve got Captain Marvel fever and the only prescription is more Captain Marvel. As a casual comic reader, Captain Marvel’s origin story is a confusing one for me. She’s half-human, half-alien (does being combined with a mentor during an explosion do that? I guess) and was granted vague cosmic powers by Mar Vell (the original Captain Marvel), the same guy who once karate chopped the tesseract into oblivion during a fight with Thanos.
Are you following this? I kinda don’t but that’s OK because I’m totally enamored with Carol Danvers who’s basically a fearless, intergalactic cowgirl. In “Rise of Alpha Flight” she accepts a job aboard a space station designed to protect earth from the alien flavor-of-the-week threat. She discovers she hates diplomatic desk work but before she has a chance to do any kind of diplomacy, Carol is off to investigate a mysterious, abandoned space craft. With a cast of quirky but mostly forgettable characters, Captain Marvel zooms around the comic panels with her hair in an awesome mohawk and it’s all I need.
Are you following this? I kinda don’t but that’s OK because I’m totally enamored with Carol Danvers who’s basically a fearless, intergalactic cowgirl. In “Rise of Alpha Flight” she accepts a job aboard a space station designed to protect earth from the alien flavor-of-the-week threat. She discovers she hates diplomatic desk work but before she has a chance to do any kind of diplomacy, Carol is off to investigate a mysterious, abandoned space craft. With a cast of quirky but mostly forgettable characters, Captain Marvel zooms around the comic panels with her hair in an awesome mohawk and it’s all I need.