lightning is my girl

Carol: Let’s rewrite some history, shall we?

From Captain Marvel #2 (August 2012); script by Kelly Sue DeConnick, pencils by Dexter Soy. 

Tracy: So…you gonna do it? We’ve got four days before I need to be back in New York for my surgery.
Carol: I’m pretty sure that’s why she left it to me. If I repeat her flight in the same plane, then the history books say maybe she wasn’t a liar. Well, she was a liar. But she might also have been the best pilot of her generation.
Tracy: And if you repeat, maybe the best of yours…?
Carol: Tracy…what’s this “maybe” nonsense?

From Captain Marvel #2 (August 2012); script by Kelly Sue DeConnick, pencils by Dexter Soy. 

‘Nuff said.

From Captain Marvel #2 (August 2012); script by Kelly Sue DeConnick, pencils by Dexter Soy.

Carol: I trusted you, remember? Now I need you to trust me.
Jerri: You’re going to get yourself killed.
Banshee [Unnamed]: If you don’t make it back…what’s your name? Captain what?
Carol: Captain Marvel. 

I am almost as excited to see more of Banshee Squadron as I am to see more of Carol. This is also a rare comic that has me enjoying Carol’s appearances as a superhero and her appearances as a civilian (not, you know, that Carol really ever qualifies as a civilian) equally. Sort of unwillingly falling in love with the art style, too; it’s still raw in some places, but I feel like this issue was more consistent than the first.

From Captain Marvel #2 (August 2012); script by Kelly Sue DeConnick, pencils by Dexter Soy.

─ Preview: CAPTAIN MARVEL #2 ─

kellysue:

4 Page Lettered Preview. 

Preview: CAPTAIN MARVEL #2

Written by Kelly Sue DeConnick
Art by Dexter Soy
Release Date: August 15, 2012

• Captain Marvel can’t walk away from a challenge from her past!! Who’s the better pilot?
• Introducing the THE BANSHEE SQUADRON!
• Avenger Time Travel Protocols: Engage!

Rogue: Ah’ll zap us to the Avengers…and other X-Men. Magneto, Gambit, Storm…we get a few key folks on our side, it’s a new ball game. One hitch. Right now, Ah’m powerless. Ah need to absorb someone’s abilities to fly outta here. And the only choice is you. Ah know our history. Ah know how much it bothered you when I did it in New Orleans…
Carol: This is different. This time you asked.

From X-Men: Legacy #270 (July 2012); script by Christos Gage, pencils by David Baldeon.

kellysue:

Someone took the time to put Helen’s letter together: 

“Knew you the second you set foot on my property, kid. Even as young as you were, how could I not? Folks want to blame someone for gals like us. “Her daddy was unkind” or “some fella broke her heart” … Hogwash. You and me’ve always been like this. Always a little removed. Always… dreaming.

Of higher, further, faster… more. Always more. We came into this world spittin’ mad, runnin’ full bore… To or from what, I ain’t never been able to tell. Over the years, I’ve come to think of these particular traits as the shared attributes of a chosen people… the Lord put us here to punch holes in the sky. 

And when the soul is born with that kind of purpose… It’ll damn sure find a way. We’re gonna get where we’re going, you and me. Death and indignity be damned… we’ll get there…

…And we will be the stars we were always meant to be.”

Helen Cobb, Captain Marvel #1

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CAPTAIN MARVEL #1
Written by Kelly Sue DeConnick
Art by Dexter Soy
Release Date: July 18, 2012

• SHE’S BACK! The “Mightiest” of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes!
• Ace pilot. Legendary Avenger. 100% pure bad-a$$.
• Carol Danvers has a new name, a new mission …and all the power she needs to make her life a living hell.
• Guest starring Captain America.

Preview via Comicosity. My goal for the weekend is to repost and reblog this as many times and as many places as possible without being obnoxious…which aligns nicely with Wednesday’s goal of dragging people into the comic shop by their ears and forcing this into their hands. Seriously, I jest.

It does look like a fantastic title, though, and a great starting point for comics fans new to the character or movie fans new to comics. (Buy three copies!)