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Ms. Marvel at war

Ms. Marvel Vol. 6: Civil War II by G Willow Wilson

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Bingo Square : Illustrated   I haven’t been in to comic books since for about 30 years, back when I would beg my mom to buy me Archie at the checkout of the grocery store and finish it before we got home. Ms. Marvel really has changed that. Kamala Khan is an American teenager living in Jersey City, New Jersey and dealing with regular teenage stuff- school, her parents’ expectations, and the occasional boy trouble. The big difference is that Kamala’s boy trouble is usually because the ‘boy’ is a villain and she has to defeat him to be home […]

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7/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:44 |

The end for G. Willow Wilson, but not for Ms. Marvel.

Ms. Marvel, Vol. 10: Time and Again by G. Willow Wilson

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And so marks the end of G. Willow Wilson’s tenure on Ms. Marvel, something she thought wouldn’t last beyond a handful of issues, but has now gone on for seven years, and Kamala herself is flourishing at large in the Marvel Comics universe—or so I’ve heard, because I just can’t with superhero comics for the most part. They are too interconnected and I can’t read them all, it’s impossible, so I will read almost none of them instead. I have been making an exception for Ms. Marvel for several reasons: Firstly because Kamala Khan is a damn delight, and second […]

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6/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:67 |

Not so little runaways

Runaways Vol. 1: Find Your Way Home by Rainbow Rowell and Kris Anka

Runaways Vol. 2: Best Friends Forever by Rainbow Rowell and Kris Anka

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4.5 stars This post contains spoilers from the original Runaways graphic novels. When I found out that one of my favorite authors and favorite people to follow on Twitter, Rainbow Rowell was writing a continuation of the Runaways, a group of Marvel teens that find out their parents and super evil and murdering kids, I was very excited. I had only read the first 3 collected volumes, but Gert and Chase are one of my favorite couples of all time. I knew that Rainbow Rowell would follow the plot lines from the original Runaways series, but also put her new […]

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6/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

Captain Marvel is pretty awesome in comics form too

Captain Marvel: In Pursuit of Flight by Kelly Sue De Connick and assorted artists

Captain Marvel: Down by Kelly Sue De Connick and assorted artists

Avengers Assemble: The Enemy Within by Kelly Sue De Connick and assorted artists

Avengers Assemble: Infinity by Kelly Sue De Connick and assorted artists

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Back in the summer of 2016, I read what I believed to be the first trade in a run about Captain Marvel, but that turned out to be incorrect and Marvel had just been stupid in how they were rebranding and renumbering their comics. As I came to discover, the reason there was so little back story given about Carol Danvers, her powers and her role in the Avengers, is because despite being entitled Vol 1: Higher, Further, Faster, More, it was by no means the start of Kelly Sue DeConnick’s run. Rather let down by the experience, I put Captain […]

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5/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:20 |

Marvel Female Super Heroes: a primer

Marvel: Fearless and Fantastic - Female Super Heroes Save the World by Sam Maggs, Emma Grange, and Ruth Amos

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Our household is deep in super hero fandom but our actual knowledge is kind of sketchy, as it’s a mismash of cartoons from different eras and the various movies.  Because of this we are more familiar with DC female super heroes (Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Batgirl, etc.) and knew only a few Marvel female supers.  But that has been changing as we have found Ms. Marvel and Squirrel Girl comics and now the Captain Marvel movie.  We’re excited to learn about more female supers that fight alongside known characters like Iron Man and Thor.  When I saw, Fearless and Fantastic: Female Super […]

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4/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

In which Squirrel Girl and puns are not enough

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel You Know It's True by Ryan North and Erica Henderson, et al

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  What do you get when you try to write a story with no main plotline, and instead focus entirely on a bunch of hardly connected side stories? The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel You Know It’s True is what. I should have known I wouldn’t like this much since the first volume annoyed me, but I wanted to see if things got any better; they did not. My biggest problem with Doreen and her companions (now she has several, and I’m not totally sure how all that happened) is that she’s presented more as a parody of the Marvel universe. […]

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2/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

Cannonball! – I crushed my goal with Ms. Marvel

Ms. Marvel: Crushed by G. Willow Wilson (writer), Elmo Bondoc (artist), Takeshi Miyazawa (artist)

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Earlier this year I accidentally read the fourth Ms. Marvel graphic novel before the third, Ms.Marvel: Crushed.  Instead of immediately going back and reading number three I went on to read other things.  When I was ready to pick it up, I couldn’t find it, the house seemed to have eaten it.  About two weeks ago it resurfaced and I decided to save it to complete my cannonball.  Sosuke is not as thrilled as I am, since his nap was disturbed to take this photo. Ms. Marvel: Crushed is everything I’ve come to expect from the Ms. Marvel comics.  They are […]

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12/12/2018 's CBR10 Review No:52 |

More Human Than Human

X-23: Innocence Lost by Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost

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I’ve been on a late oughts X-Force kick, lately. That run has been my comic book introduction to X-23, aka Laura. (If you’ve seen the movie Logan, Laura is the lil’ Wolverine. That was my first encounter with the character.) The Laura character is terrifying and hilarious in X-Force. She’s so efficiently brutal that you always wonder whether she’s a judgment call away from hacking into pieces a character you like. Kind of weird vibe for a teammate. She’s funny in the way Guardians of the Galaxy’s Drax is funny – a deadly fish out of water. The character is […]

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10/14/2018 's CBR10 Review No:62 |


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