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Captain Marvel (2014) (Single Issues)
Captain Marvel (2014-2015) #1
As Captain Marvel, a.k.a. Carol Danvers, comes to a crossroads with a new life and new romance, she makes a dramatic decision that will alter the course of her life and the entire Marvel Universe in the months to come. It's time to go HIGHER, FURTHER, FASTER and more in the most super-powered comic around!
24 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 12, 2012
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About the author
Kelly Sue DeConnick
365 books2,234 followersKelly Sue DeConnick’s work spans stage, comics, film and television. Ms. DeConnick first came to prominence as a comics writer, where she is best known for reinventing the Carol Danvers as “Captain Marvel” at Marvel and for the Black Label standard-setting Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons at DC. Her independent comics Bitch Planet and Pretty Deadly (both from Image Comics) have ranked as New York Times best-sellers and been honored with Eisner Awards, British Fantasy Awards and Hugo nominations.
Ms. DeConnick’s screen work includes stints on Captain Marvel, a film that earned $1B for Disney worldwide, and 2023’s forthcoming The Marvels with Marvel Studios; in addition to having consulted on features for Skydance and ARRAY, and developed television for NBCUniversal, Legendary Entertainment and HBOMax. Her most recent stage work is the mythic spectacle AWAKENING, which opened at the Wynn Resort Las Vegas in November 2022.
Mission-driven, Ms. DeConnick is also a founding partner at Good Trouble Productions, where she has helped to produce non-fiction and educational comics including the “Hidden Voices” and “Recognized” series for NY Public Schools and Congressman John Lewis’ Run, in partnership with Abrams Comics.
In 2015, Ms. DeConnick founded the #VisibleWomen Project, whose mission is to help women and other marginalized genders find paid work in comics and its related industries. The project continues to this day and recently expanded in partnership with Dani Hedlund of Brink Literacy.
Ms. DeConnick lives in Portland, OR with her husband, writer Matt Fraction, and their two children.
Ms. DeConnick’s screen work includes stints on Captain Marvel, a film that earned $1B for Disney worldwide, and 2023’s forthcoming The Marvels with Marvel Studios; in addition to having consulted on features for Skydance and ARRAY, and developed television for NBCUniversal, Legendary Entertainment and HBOMax. Her most recent stage work is the mythic spectacle AWAKENING, which opened at the Wynn Resort Las Vegas in November 2022.
Mission-driven, Ms. DeConnick is also a founding partner at Good Trouble Productions, where she has helped to produce non-fiction and educational comics including the “Hidden Voices” and “Recognized” series for NY Public Schools and Congressman John Lewis’ Run, in partnership with Abrams Comics.
In 2015, Ms. DeConnick founded the #VisibleWomen Project, whose mission is to help women and other marginalized genders find paid work in comics and its related industries. The project continues to this day and recently expanded in partnership with Dani Hedlund of Brink Literacy.
Ms. DeConnick lives in Portland, OR with her husband, writer Matt Fraction, and their two children.
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June 21, 2017
This was good! I loved The Guardians Of The Galaxy made an appearance!
A great story and I will for sure read more =]
A great story and I will for sure read more =]
November 16, 2015
"Have you ever seen a little girl run so fast she falls down? There's an instant, a fraction of a second before the world catches hold of her again...a moment when she's outrun every doubt and fear she's ever had about herself and she flies. In that one moment, every little girl flies."
People throw around the phrase "girl power" without giving it much thought. I blame the Spice Girls for this. In the late 90's, they simply said it so often that it lost all meaning and just became noise.
Captain Marvel is not an example of "girl power". She's an example of "Grown-Ass Woman Power." She's got everything. She's independent, loving, a leader, beautiful, caring, brave, strong, bad-ass, and fearless.
DeConnick does a great job of introducing the character in case the reader was unfamiliar with her without wasting any time in the process. She starts in the middle of the action and then goes back in time to catch us up. We don't even return to that point in time until several issues later. To me that shows confidence in the character and in storytelling. DeConnick respects her readers enough to follow the age old rule of writing: Better to confuse your reader for fifteen minutes than to bore them for five.
This makes a good companion piece to the "Ms. Marvel" series although given how much Ms. Marvel admires and constantly references Captain Marvel throughout that series, it should come as no surprise.
I can't wait until my one year old daughter is old enough to read this. I hope she never stops running so fast that she falls down.
People throw around the phrase "girl power" without giving it much thought. I blame the Spice Girls for this. In the late 90's, they simply said it so often that it lost all meaning and just became noise.
Captain Marvel is not an example of "girl power". She's an example of "Grown-Ass Woman Power." She's got everything. She's independent, loving, a leader, beautiful, caring, brave, strong, bad-ass, and fearless.
DeConnick does a great job of introducing the character in case the reader was unfamiliar with her without wasting any time in the process. She starts in the middle of the action and then goes back in time to catch us up. We don't even return to that point in time until several issues later. To me that shows confidence in the character and in storytelling. DeConnick respects her readers enough to follow the age old rule of writing: Better to confuse your reader for fifteen minutes than to bore them for five.
This makes a good companion piece to the "Ms. Marvel" series although given how much Ms. Marvel admires and constantly references Captain Marvel throughout that series, it should come as no surprise.
I can't wait until my one year old daughter is old enough to read this. I hope she never stops running so fast that she falls down.
January 31, 2015
OK, so I wasn't on board the new Captain Marvel when Marvel did it recently, I thought it was OK, but wasn't as WOW as some people thought.
So when I see another re-reboot, I get kinda snarky...
However, this is very good, 4+stars good. and definitely piqued my curiousity. It's funny, well drawn, a great take on what makes Carol tick, oh, and her home base is the Statue of Liberty? Boom. Nice.
I love the intro, with the ragtag space crew, the Droids reference, and the old school brawling and racing for the getaway.
I had no idea Carol and Rhodey were getting their freak on, but I love it. Great idea, why not. I like how she and Tony work fine together but still seem to be a bit like family members who like to piss each other off.
More funniness with Star Wars references, and set up a new chapter for Carol on the stage she deserves. Plus, gets me mildly interested in Cosmic Marvel, which I'm usually scared to get too into (GotG aside, unless you also include some old Quasar).
There's enough mystery, great humour, action, art, story, but the character feels right here, not like the self-doubting foolishness they did last time around with her. This just seems to be a near-perfect issue #1...it's just not long enough lol. But it does end at a perfect point.
OK, I'm sold, take my money, where is the rest of Vol. 1?
July 19, 2018
Like most comics, it just assumes you know what’s going on and drops you in the middle of a story. Regardless, I’m eager to learn more about Carol Danvers.
March 9, 2015
AWESOME! Love the crossover with Guardians of the Galaxy, the story had me hooked all the way through, and the artwork is really beautiful. Some of the best drawings of women I have seen in mainstream comics for a long time. Can't wait to keep reading.
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March 20, 2019This comics is absolutely action-packed
September 10, 2020
Bullet Review:
Wow, I apparently read this *looks at metadata* 6 years ago. I don't remember this at all.
As for why I'm touching this, I have a bag of Captain Marvel single issues and trades that were in the bottom drawer of my nightstand that I wanted to finally read (or apparently reread).
Carol Danvers has a romantic tie to James Rhodes (that happened?! Getting old sucks!), but decides space is calling for her and takes the mission from Tony Stark.
I don't know why I categorized this as "characters to fall in love with" and "In tears that it's over", as this is basically the first paragraph of a first chapter of a book. Not to say it's bad, just that it's so early, you can't gush about how amazing the story is yet. As for the characters, I do like Carol Danvers, it's just this book is so early in the story, she doesn't really get to do anything yet. And despite the fact that I should love Danvers more (her love of space, being in a male-dominated field and having to fight to be respected) for whatever reason, I still find myself a Wonder Woman person.
Wow, I apparently read this *looks at metadata* 6 years ago. I don't remember this at all.
As for why I'm touching this, I have a bag of Captain Marvel single issues and trades that were in the bottom drawer of my nightstand that I wanted to finally read (or apparently reread).
Carol Danvers has a romantic tie to James Rhodes (that happened?! Getting old sucks!), but decides space is calling for her and takes the mission from Tony Stark.
I don't know why I categorized this as "characters to fall in love with" and "In tears that it's over", as this is basically the first paragraph of a first chapter of a book. Not to say it's bad, just that it's so early, you can't gush about how amazing the story is yet. As for the characters, I do like Carol Danvers, it's just this book is so early in the story, she doesn't really get to do anything yet. And despite the fact that I should love Danvers more (her love of space, being in a male-dominated field and having to fight to be respected) for whatever reason, I still find myself a Wonder Woman person.
June 27, 2018
Captain Marvel is kinda boring in my opinion. I did love this series though. The plot was kinda great and adventurious but in the end, It didn't met my expectations.
The only thing that kept me going was chewieeee. I want a
Chewie > Rocket
Chewie best cat avenger 10 out of 10.
-New York Times
July 31, 2018
This was a fun one. I cannot wait for the movie next year. Captain Marvel is a compassionate bad ass who, in the end, works for herself first and foremost to do what's right. Love the cultural references and cameos in this one!
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October 23, 2015What the hell did she need the Guardians of the Galaxy for? could've done without that bit.
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February 21, 2020It’s not mine. My time for comic books is long gone. 25 years ago I went to the basement of Munich main railway station nearly every day. Just to read the newest comics without pairing for them. Now I don’t find a clue why to read a comic.
Captain Marvel is drawn really nice. If your in comics than it should be your choice.
Captain Marvel is drawn really nice. If your in comics than it should be your choice.
September 8, 2018
Carol Danvers is badass and I can't wait to see her in the big screen.
Love the art, the story-line was interesting and that cameo of the Guardians of the Galaxy was awesome!
Love the art, the story-line was interesting and that cameo of the Guardians of the Galaxy was awesome!
August 21, 2020
The story had the ending at start and flash backed to the beginning. In my opinion that is good story telling because for people with short attention spans like me it cuts to the chase and gives you good dialogue. Its about how the hero got to travel to space and protect it. She found her true calling to protect planets. Captain Marvel always cuts it close but gets the job done. Captain Marvel loves hanging out with her best friend's daughter, Kit. She met her best friend as a pilot. Her best friend gets older, but not Captain Marvel, but never forgets her best friend. I recommend this book for anyone who has a short attention span, dialogue and comic books.
January 16, 2020
That's my first time reading a comic book about Carol Danvers and i'm a bit confused--she lives in the Statue of Liberty and she's dating Rhodey?!
August 10, 2017
Definitely fun, but not really for beginners. I've never really read any Marvel comics and seen some of the movies, but this book assumes a lot of knowledge about the Marvel universe and I felt a bit at sea. I know it's a trade paperback, but for me it was too episodic and the difference in tone between the different issues could be a bit jarring. Carol is a great character but I didn't get any sense of the limitations of her powers, and an invincible hero is not particularly interesting.
Maybe that all sounds less than 3 stars but I am intrigued enough to read mroe.
Maybe that all sounds less than 3 stars but I am intrigued enough to read mroe.
January 18, 2016
No bad.....for a Marvel title ;)
Cameos from the Guardians, Iron Man and the Iron Patriot tied everything together easier. Some of the characters seemed familiar to me, but I'm not sure exactly where I've seen them before. The story was interesting and the end satisfying. As I got down to the last few pages I worried that I would actually be left on a cliff hanger. There's obviously still more story to be told, but for now, the ending was good enough.
Cameos from the Guardians, Iron Man and the Iron Patriot tied everything together easier. Some of the characters seemed familiar to me, but I'm not sure exactly where I've seen them before. The story was interesting and the end satisfying. As I got down to the last few pages I worried that I would actually be left on a cliff hanger. There's obviously still more story to be told, but for now, the ending was good enough.
December 26, 2014
Aww yeah. This was crazy fun and my first impression of Carol Danvers was very favourable, she's ballsy, likes Star Wars and punching people, has a cute cat AND she hangs out with my favourite intergalactic superteam. Loved the artwork too - so nice to see an expressive female face in a superhero comic, and not the glassy eyed pout women are sometimes limited to. Sign me up for more!
May 29, 2015
This was a lot of fun. Carol Danvers as Captain Marvel is pretty kick ass. Also the Guardians of the Galaxy were randomly in this! Pretty awesome. If you don't read comics often I'd recommend this since I'm new to comics but I enjoyed this.
June 10, 2019
A fun introduction the Captain Marvel. Carol seems to be bored, despite having a secret relationship she is hiding. I guess that isn't enough intrigue for her. We'll find out what is in the next few comics I'm sure!
November 9, 2014
Carol Danvers is a lady hero. She's brave, sassy, and gets shit done. I love her.
April 4, 2015
Read this with my daughter at night before bed. Science Fiction, action takes place on other planets. Guardians of the Galaxies make a cameo
April 27, 2015
I'm addicted!
February 3, 2016
A fun story.
July 25, 2016
Everything about this (art, dialogue, storyline etc) is better than the 2016 one so I'll just read these.
Also Carol and Rhodey???? Amazing
Also Carol and Rhodey???? Amazing
October 4, 2016
Seems typical. I was expecting more. I sure hope the movie is better. OK, I suppose. It was good to see the Guardians of the Galaxy again.
April 1, 2020
Girl power!!!
March 28, 2020
Interesting story, beautiful visuals. Nothing special but not bad either. Definitely worth a read if you are an avid comic book reader.
June 8, 2017
Maybe this book just suffers in comparison with the very excellent Ms Marvel that I'd also recently finished reading, but as a space opera, I felt it only really took off (if you'll pardon the horrible pun) in the last two issues. Everything before that was mildly interesting but not compelling, though Rocket Raccoon's reaction to Captain Marvel's cat was hilarious. I totally dig her relationship with Rhodey, too. I'd like for that to be in the movie, tho the age difference between Brie Larson and Don Cheadle gives me pause. Enough with Hollywood pairing young women with dudes old enough to be their dads. I'm not against it in every instance, so if the movie writers come up with a compelling reason for it to happen, then I'm all for it. But let's face it, in most movies, such pairings are just some old guy's wish fulfillment, and it's gross and creepy.
But I digress. I think another reason I was underwhelmed by this book is that I've never really cared about Carol Danvers, and find it weird that she's considered Marvel's biggest superheroine. I grew up on the X-Men, and while I was familiar with the rest of the Marvel Universe, Binary (as she was then known) was not that big a deal. Granted, I cared more about Rogue's side of the story, plus Danvers always felt overpowered. Anyway, it seems that she got more solo work after I stopped reading monthlies in the 2000s, but I still find her kind of uninteresting in comparison with other characters, and this trade paperback did little to change my mind. A worthy read, but not really my thing.
But I digress. I think another reason I was underwhelmed by this book is that I've never really cared about Carol Danvers, and find it weird that she's considered Marvel's biggest superheroine. I grew up on the X-Men, and while I was familiar with the rest of the Marvel Universe, Binary (as she was then known) was not that big a deal. Granted, I cared more about Rogue's side of the story, plus Danvers always felt overpowered. Anyway, it seems that she got more solo work after I stopped reading monthlies in the 2000s, but I still find her kind of uninteresting in comparison with other characters, and this trade paperback did little to change my mind. A worthy read, but not really my thing.
May 3, 2018
Am I going to rave about this just because it is Marvel?
Yes. Because I am a trashcan.
The characters are BEAUITFUL.
the artwork is BEAUTIFUL.
the storyline is BEAUTIFUL.
and Captain Marvel is BEAUTIFUL.
MY QUEEN. MY CAPTAIN. I SALUTE HER.
You should totally read this. Because she's fantastic and Marvel is amazing and my heart hurts.
Here is some of my favorite lines in the comic: (DISCLAIMER: minor spoilers).
"What's restless?"
"It's kind of like... It's like when you know you need to do something, but you don't know quite what that something is."
"What do you do to make the restless feeling stop?"
"You keep searching, until you find out what it is you need to do."
~~
"Have you ever seen a little girl run so fast she falls down? There's an instant, a fraction of a second before the world catches hold of her again... A moment when she's outrun every doubt and fear she's ever had about herself and she flies. In that moment, every little girl flies."
~~
"Little green girl's not a bad tactician."
"I'd be tickled if she weren't using her talents to try and murder me."
~~
"Sure am glad you came halfway across the galaxy to tell us that we were doomed."
~~
"Play me something I can dance to."
Yes. Because I am a trashcan.
The characters are BEAUITFUL.
the artwork is BEAUTIFUL.
the storyline is BEAUTIFUL.
and Captain Marvel is BEAUTIFUL.
MY QUEEN. MY CAPTAIN. I SALUTE HER.
You should totally read this. Because she's fantastic and Marvel is amazing and my heart hurts.
Here is some of my favorite lines in the comic: (DISCLAIMER: minor spoilers).
"What's restless?"
"It's kind of like... It's like when you know you need to do something, but you don't know quite what that something is."
"What do you do to make the restless feeling stop?"
"You keep searching, until you find out what it is you need to do."
~~
"Have you ever seen a little girl run so fast she falls down? There's an instant, a fraction of a second before the world catches hold of her again... A moment when she's outrun every doubt and fear she's ever had about herself and she flies. In that moment, every little girl flies."
~~
"Little green girl's not a bad tactician."
"I'd be tickled if she weren't using her talents to try and murder me."
~~
"Sure am glad you came halfway across the galaxy to tell us that we were doomed."
~~
"Play me something I can dance to."
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