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Generations #7
Generations: Captain Marvel & Captain Mar-Vell #1
Carol Danvers, THE MIGHTY CAPTAIN MARVEL, finds herself face-to-face with someone she never thought she'd see again — Mar-Vell of the Kree, THE MIGHTY CAPTAIN MARVEL! But before she can get to the bottom of this impossible reunion, she gets embroiled in combat with someone who wants the Kree destroyed — talk about terrible timing!
32 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 13, 2017
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Margaret Stohl
117 books6,032 followersMargaret Stohl is the #1 New York Times, PW, USA Today, LA Times and Internationally bestselling co-author or author of twelve books, including the BEAUTIFUL CREATURES NOVELS, the DANGEROUS CREATURES NOVELS, the ICONS NOVELS, MARVEL'S BLACK WIDOW NOVELS, ROYCE ROLLS & CATS VS ROBOTS THIS IS WAR (forthcoming!) She writes the MIGHTY CAPTAIN MARVEL comic for Marvel Comics (ongoing) and has contributed to countless videogames; currently, she is a Narrative Director at Bungie.
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Goodreads Peeps! Please note I no longer review the books on my shelf, "stars"-wise. I do list books I read, and they're all automatically marked as 5 stars. That's because a) I don't list books that I didn't like enough to finish and b) I didn't want to delete the ratings I had already given. If I particularly love a book and feel inclined to comment, you'll still see the comments here. Sadly, I have to ask: please don't reproduce these comments on book jackets, websites, or in any other medium for the marketing of books. They're only meant for fellow goodreaders. Thanks so much!
ABOUT ME:
Writing has gotten me in and out of trouble since I was 15 (back then, mostly just in trouble.) For 10 years, I designed &/or wrote for lots of video games, one of which was nominated for “Most Innovative Game Design,” but I lost to a rapping onion. If you know games you get why my two bad beagles are named Zelda and Kirby.
From the author:
Goodreads Peeps! Please note I no longer review the books on my shelf, "stars"-wise. I do list books I read, and they're all automatically marked as 5 stars. That's because a) I don't list books that I didn't like enough to finish and b) I didn't want to delete the ratings I had already given. If I particularly love a book and feel inclined to comment, you'll still see the comments here. Sadly, I have to ask: please don't reproduce these comments on book jackets, websites, or in any other medium for the marketing of books. They're only meant for fellow goodreaders. Thanks so much!
ABOUT ME:
Writing has gotten me in and out of trouble since I was 15 (back then, mostly just in trouble.) For 10 years, I designed &/or wrote for lots of video games, one of which was nominated for “Most Innovative Game Design,” but I lost to a rapping onion. If you know games you get why my two bad beagles are named Zelda and Kirby.
School: I spent more years in it than a person ever should, because let’s face it, reading books is so much better than having a job. I fell in love with American literature at Amherst and Yale, earned an MA in English from Stanford, and studied creative writing under the late great poet George MacBeth at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. I taught Intro to Film as a TA at Yale and Romantic Poetry as a TA at Stanford. Don’t tell the people at Yale but sometimes I taught the section before I’d seen the movie it was about...
I live in Santa Monica, CA, with my family, most of whom were enslaved into working with me in one form or another on my first YA book for Little, Brown. I’m not kidding; when my daughters wanted to go to school I said “Why are you so selfish? Get back in there and edit,” and by said I mean yelled and maybe threw things, it’s all a haze. Now the Beautiful series has wrapped, but you can see the movie on February 13, 2013 or read my new book ICONS on May 7th. Nothing gold can stay, Ponyboy.
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September 15, 2017
Well... hmm.. This was an interesting take.
It was also the one I was most looking forward to, though I know very little about the original Ms. Marvel storyline or original Captain Marvel, for that matter. It looks like a "classic" type of comic book with a whole bunch of "Gosh you seem so familiar" and "oh geez even if you're a lady, you fight well." The "villian" is boring, it's not important, but it's... dumb, so that's a star against you. ("Peace is our way, but we have no solution and we're being attacked and oh gosh okay I guess we'll just resort to FULL WARRIOR MODE!!")
I remember an article where G. Willow Wilson was talking about how the current Ms. Marvel worked in adopting the new name, because she inherited that mantle in way that didn't discredit Carol Danvers. In fact, Carol was kind of promoted to Captain Marvel, and Kamala Khan is forging her own path. Suddenly, we have a big name superhero that is also diverse. But Wilson pointed out this didn't work for all the gender-swaps if it took away this character we loved or gave them the short-end of the stick, which is why Ironheart and Jane!Thor had a a big negative push back. The Generations line right now seems like a big response to the new identities, and the new direction of storylines. At least, that is what I hoped for and the Iron Man/Ironheart one was So. SO. good! My hopes were high!
So anyways, Kamala's growth as a superhero and watching her going from starstruck to disillusioned with Carol (during Civil War II) has been one of my favorite things in the Marvel character runs. Obviously, this generations with the two Captains would be this opportunity for Carol to be like "Look, I'm all grown up and I don't need to hide in your shadow. I'm capable, not a carbon copy and GIRL POWER RAWR!" It could've been a big huge statement about the treatment of superheroines as the lesser, powerful forms of the male heroes, and how far they've come.
And this comic only half gets that. I've seen comics pack a serious punch in a one-shot, and this one didn't quite get there. There's a queer couple, there's no sexualizing art, and Carol kicks ass, like, sure, super progressive, but the heart wasn't there. Carol doesn't even out her identity, and I can't understand why, because I so wanted to watch her frustrations of trying to impress him while being unable to handle his commands or something, idk, I just wanted... more.
What this comic did do is make me think Captain Mar-Vell could be cool. If his storylines are set in the Negative Zone, than I am 100% down to see his comics come back because I would read the shit out of his stuff, plus if there is an extended section with him and Carol that is well plotted, then sign me the fuck up.
It was also the one I was most looking forward to, though I know very little about the original Ms. Marvel storyline or original Captain Marvel, for that matter. It looks like a "classic" type of comic book with a whole bunch of "Gosh you seem so familiar" and "oh geez even if you're a lady, you fight well." The "villian" is boring, it's not important, but it's... dumb, so that's a star against you. ("Peace is our way, but we have no solution and we're being attacked and oh gosh okay I guess we'll just resort to FULL WARRIOR MODE!!")
I remember an article where G. Willow Wilson was talking about how the current Ms. Marvel worked in adopting the new name, because she inherited that mantle in way that didn't discredit Carol Danvers. In fact, Carol was kind of promoted to Captain Marvel, and Kamala Khan is forging her own path. Suddenly, we have a big name superhero that is also diverse. But Wilson pointed out this didn't work for all the gender-swaps if it took away this character we loved or gave them the short-end of the stick, which is why Ironheart and Jane!Thor had a a big negative push back. The Generations line right now seems like a big response to the new identities, and the new direction of storylines. At least, that is what I hoped for and the Iron Man/Ironheart one was So. SO. good! My hopes were high!
So anyways, Kamala's growth as a superhero and watching her going from starstruck to disillusioned with Carol (during Civil War II) has been one of my favorite things in the Marvel character runs. Obviously, this generations with the two Captains would be this opportunity for Carol to be like "Look, I'm all grown up and I don't need to hide in your shadow. I'm capable, not a carbon copy and GIRL POWER RAWR!" It could've been a big huge statement about the treatment of superheroines as the lesser, powerful forms of the male heroes, and how far they've come.
And this comic only half gets that. I've seen comics pack a serious punch in a one-shot, and this one didn't quite get there. There's a queer couple, there's no sexualizing art, and Carol kicks ass, like, sure, super progressive, but the heart wasn't there. Carol doesn't even out her identity, and I can't understand why, because I so wanted to watch her frustrations of trying to impress him while being unable to handle his commands or something, idk, I just wanted... more.
What this comic did do is make me think Captain Mar-Vell could be cool. If his storylines are set in the Negative Zone, than I am 100% down to see his comics come back because I would read the shit out of his stuff, plus if there is an extended section with him and Carol that is well plotted, then sign me the fuck up.
September 21, 2017
Meh. It might have helped if I was really interested. I just read this because I'm curious about all the Generations installments. This one didn't impress, but I'm not really connected to either of the characters.
September 24, 2018
Story was good, artwork seemed inconsistent at times. Carol even seemed like a dude at one point.
October 1, 2017
Best line: Do these lady-biceps look like I'm lady-joking?
I haven't read a lot of Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel (or Ms. Marvel) books, so I wasn't entirely sure of what was going on here. Entertaining-ish, but not my favorite of the Generations one-shots.
I haven't read a lot of Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel (or Ms. Marvel) books, so I wasn't entirely sure of what was going on here. Entertaining-ish, but not my favorite of the Generations one-shots.
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