Captain Marvel, Vol. 5: The New World

Captain Marvel (2019) (Collected Editions)

by Kelly Thompson, Lee Garbett (Illustrator), Belén Ortega (Artist)

It's a brave new world - but once again New York has found itself under attack. Only this time, Captain Marvel isn't here to save the day! Stolen away to a far future, Carol Danvers must come to grips with a threat unlike any she's known. Featuring brand-new villains and heroes, a cast both familiar and strange, and the big action you've come to expect from the architects of the hit "Last Avenger," Kelly Thompson and Lee Garbett unleash their biggest Captain Marvel story yet!

COLLECTING: Captain Marvel (2019) 22-26

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Comic Book, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics

112 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 4, 2021

About the author

KELLY THOMPSON has a degree in Sequential Art from The Savannah College of Art & Design. Her love of comics and superheroes have compelled her since she first discovered them as a teenager. Currently living in Portland, Oregon with her boyfriend and the two brilliant cats that run their lives, you can find Kelly all over the Internet where she is generally well liked, except where she's detested.

Kelly has published two novels - THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING (2012) and STORYKILLER (2014) and the graphic novel HEART IN A BOX from Dark Horse Comics (2015). She's currently writing ROGUE & GAMBIT, HAWKEYE, and PHASMA for Marvel Comics and GHOSTBUSTERS for IDW. Other major credits include: A-Force, Captain Marvel & The Carol Corps, Jem and The Holograms, Misfits, Power Rangers Pink, and the creator-owned mini-series Mega Princess.

Kelly's ambitions are eclipsed only by her desire to exist entirely in pajamas. Fortunately pajamas and writers go hand in hand (most of the time). Please buy all her stuff so that she can buy (and wear) more pajamas.

Reviews

[Baba · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite a good read (for a 21st century Marvel book), sees Carol thrust into the world of Captain Marvel: The End #1, in which most of humanity and super powered beings are dead after two invasions by an unspecified force, and the survivors eke out lives in the radioactive ruins of a post nuked world! Set 2052 we get to see some pretty cool future and/or grown up characters. The villain of the piece is an opposing survivor called Ove and their allies.

I think this was that much enjoyable because I only last week read the abysmal X-Men: X of Swords, but also for its pretty cool portrayal of 2052 Emma Frost, Magik, Thor etc. This feels like a season of Captain Marvel that might actually last :) 7 out of 12 for this volume despite being yet another in a long line of rip offs of X-Men: Days of Future Past.

2022 read

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Captain Marvel gets transported to her future from Captain Marvel: The End. There she meets up with some old-er friends along with a lot of kids of super-heroes and fights the kid of two Marvel characters who it looks like will pop up again. Not the greatest story but still decent. Surprisingly, The End one-shot was not reprinted with this story. I guess that would have made too much sense.

[Subham · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reread: 16/03/2023

This was so fun second time reading it, though they should have included the "Captain marvel the end" one shot here too and it makes for a fun story with the typical set up of the hero travelling to the dystopian future to fight and maybe the progeny of well known super-heroes help them out and its like that here but what I like is the execution again, building out the supporting cast in interesting ways and giving her one hell of a villain in "Ove" and that was so fun and really one of my fav villains of Carol feels like, his plans are quite interesting and then how he will be featured in the next arc gets interesting. The art was a step down from the previous few volumes but still good read overall!
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This was so good! Carol gets pulled into the future that we saw in the end one shot and then we learn what happened of this world, the constant wars, the sickness and the death of heroes and what others did to give other people a chance at survival and what Carol of this reality did and then our Carol faces off against Ove, Son of Namor and Enchantress. He is a dictator and then learning his backstory, his motivations and his plans for the world and then how Carol battles him, the losses she faces, sacrifice of her friends and the personal costs to her even after she comes to the present, its something. It was a good adventure and does show how Carol even at her worst is trying to save others and with Ove being in the present seems like some interesting things maybe coming soon. The art was pretty good here and mostly because of the colors! Also Rhodey!! :(

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm on record as being totally burnt out on parallel universe/alternate future stories, particularly from Marvel, but this one kinda sucked me in.

Carol gets yanked into a dystopian (possible) future where the world is now being run by the evil son of Namor and the Enchantress. Heading up a small band of resistance fighters, Carol must try to turn the tide.

It's not a bad story and, as I say, it largely managed to overcome my antipathy towards these kind of tales. The artwork was very good throughout which helped.

I'm about as happy about the ending as Rhodey was, to be honest, but I'm content to see where Kelly Thompson is going with this story thread. The main thing that frustrated the Hell out of me was that we didn't find out who Rhodey's daughter's mother was! GRRR!!!

My next book: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

[Jesús De la Jara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Leí este volumen de Capitana Marvel que no suelo leer ya que en una de las páginas de cómics comentaron que Magik podría ser una de las más poderosas de Marvel.
Así fui a este volumen donde empieza todo cuando Carol Danvers es llevada al año 2052 luego de pensar que tendría unas vacaciones. En ese mundo apocalíptico es recibida fundamentalmente por mutantes quienes tratan de ayudarla y a la vez esperan de ella gran apoyo.
Entre otros personajes están una hija de Thor, Jessica Drew (Spiderwoman) vieja, Emma Frost y finalmente Magik. Hay un personaje malvado (Ove) que resulta ser hijo de Namor quien tiene toda la tierra en peligro. Magik por su parte ha sido recluida como esclava y usan su poder para beneficio propio. Allí Emma comenta que aunque está súper orgullosa de ella su poder es incalculable.
Tiene momentos emotivos y esa realidad fue muy de mi gusto. Le dan un buen espacio a los mutantes. El final logra que Carol tome una difícil decisión.

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sent to an alternate future ruled by a magical despot, Captain Marvel must fight alongside familiar faces and children of her closest friends in order to find her way home.

This is probably my least favourite volume of Kelly Thompson's Captain Marvel, but it's still quite good. My main problem with it was that this was another alternate future type tale, and we've already had one of those at the beginning of this run. I'd much rather see Carol dealing with her actual friends rather than these potential versions of them.

The set-up's decent enough, I'll give it that, and any issue that has Emma Frost snarking her way through it is always a treat. The villain's about as interesting as a wet paper bag though; his background's far more compelling than the dude himself, which makes it hard to get invested in the outcome overall.

Lee Garbett returns on art, so the book looks great. He has a kineticism to his art that you don't see a lot these days. His designs for the new characters land pretty well too, so the world he creates is populated with interesting-looking pals and problems for Carol to talk to/hit respectively.

If we hadn't already had the first arc of this series, then this would probably have gotten the 4 stars. It looks good, the ideas are decent bar the villain, and the dialogue's still as snappy as ever. But it definitely feels like we're retreading old ground already, and that doesn't seem necessary.

[This alternate world is also apparently from the recent Captain Marvel: The End #1, but that's not collected here and I've not read it separately, so I've got no context to draw on in that respect.]

[James DeSantis · Rating 2 out of 5]

After a great last volume I was looking forward to this. Instead get a "could be future" storyline with a weird as hell ending. Nothing really worked for me this volume.

[Dimitris Papastergiou · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really liked the previous volume, and this one didn't do it for me. Sadly, too much nothing interesting happening and lots of silly scenes that weren't my kinda jam.

It was ok, an ok story with good artwork.

[Guilherme Smee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Em uma missão com Máquina de Combate, Radiação e a Mulher-Aranha, Carol Danvers se depara com tentáculos salinos e é transportada para outra realidade, no futuro da Terra. Lá, nosso planeta foi devastada por uma guerra nuclear e os poucos heróis que restam são, em sua maioria, filhos dos super-heróis atuais, liderados por Emma Frost e Jessica Drew. Logo, a resistência encontra um novo inimigo: Ove, o filho de Namor e da feiticeira asgardiana Encantor. Kelly Thompson descreve uma aventura bastante empolgante, em que queremos conhecer melhor esses novos personagens estabelecidos por ela. A arte de Lee Garbett está melhor do que nunca e é completada lindamente nos flashbacks de Bélen Ortega. Além disso, esse arco da Capitã Marvel aparentemente vai dar o que falar nos próximos números de suas revistas em quadrinhos. Isso porque um elemento daquela realidade acaba escapando para a realidade 616. Mais um bom quadrinho produzido por Kelly Thompson.

[Mar · Rating 5 out of 5]

KELLY THOMPSON CUÁL ES TU PROBLEMA?!?!? Queeee manera de destrozarme en un solo panel y de ahí seguir pisoteándome lentamente WIDJDKKD

Amo como todo se va interconectando con los anterior números y Carol en el futuro y todo lo que eso implica widnsjfbnd dios.

Anyways, EMMA FREAKING FROST SIENDO UNA REINA COMO SIEMPRE POR FAVOR!!!

Jessica Drew, ME HICISTE LLORAR DEMASIADO, eres lo mejorcito. Magik apareciendo!!!! Y luego el panel de luke con su hija.. dolor pAÍS!

Y por favor hablemos del hecho que Rhodes se va luego de Carol le termina y sabemos que él le pone CAROL a su hija.. POR FAVOR DISPARENME MEJOR 😭😭😭

[Jaye Berry · Rating 3 out of 5]

I skipped volume 4 because I started it and had absolutely no interest and almost skipped this one too but it was... okay? It was a complete rip off of X-Men: Days of Future Past lol like literally. Love that movie though.

Carol gets transported into the future where the world has turned into a post-apocalyptic hellscape. When she arrives, it turns out the Carol from that time had already sacrificed herself to save them. (You have to go read Captain Marvel: The End oneshot for this backstory smh.)

We are introduced to a big ass cast of the mostly now grown children of various Avengers and X-Men. The only one from this group who I actually cared about would be Thor's daughter Brigid and Emma Frost (because Emma Frost is cool as hell and Brigid had a whole journey of claiming her worthiness to use the hammer). The rest were just big meh and it all reminded me of Disney channel Descendants. Like it's not funny but it was so funny to me because even the bad guy was the child of a named hero lol. I would have preferred a bunch of random assholes vs a bunch of people with the same powers as their parents??

A lot of the background and some fighting reminded me of the first volume in this run that I hated and I didn't like remembering that shitshow.

I did love Captain Marvel's full body glow but this dystopian energy is not my Captain Marvel vibe. This is 113% my problem expecting and wanting a hero who isn't grounded to be grounded but I vibe with her the most when she is. Not time travelling or punching the sun. 😭

I also hate time travel so much in general but the ending to this was good.

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was pretty fun. Carol and crew are on a mission to investigate an odd crashed ship. They get attacked and Carol finds herself warped 30 years into the future. However, this future ain’t good. There were two big wars against something which wiped out a lot of the heroes and population. There’s a lot of new characters in this future that bring Carol up to speed on what’s going on. Once you learn why Carol came to this future, you see how this can be very bad. The book had a great energy about it and I found myself instantly caught up in the goings on. Carol and these future characters group up to try and stop this threat. Looks like this threat has spilled into the next volume which I’m now looking forward to reading. The only real complaint I have was the last two pages with the convo between Carol and Rhodey. I’ve seen those kind of situations happen in movies and shows and have never been a fan of it. Someone making a decision that completely takes away your choice. But other than that, great volume.

[Sesana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Possible future, where everybody is the son or daughter of a familiar character. Some of that makes sense, like including existing child characters Gerry and Dani. Some of it makes narrative sense, like including a possible future daughter for Rhodey. But they mostly don't add much that an original character couldn't do just as well. Did we really need Irene Lebeau? Emma Frost, surprisingly, puts in an appearance, and Thompson made the most of her.

[Katie Florida · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh boy, Kelly Thompson's dropping plot bombs. A+ land shark cameo.

[Izza · Rating 4 out of 5]

How had I not considered Emma Frost/Illyana Rasputin as a pairing before?

[Aisling · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Nadja · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5* This was quite fun. I liked the little trip into the future and getting to meet older versions or some superheroee and also the grown up children of others. The villain Ove seems interesting and I‘m happy that it seems like the story will continue in the next volume even though it isn‘t set in the future anymore everything will tie-in somehow and I‘m interested how. Although I also was a bit dissappointed that Carol couldn‘t go on her vacation…

[Jenna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Entertaining enough even though I've never been a fan of Namor, so his son does even less for me. Wish he had been a slightly more subtle villain but with Namor and Enchantress as parents, that might've been a rather tough feat.... Enjoyed seeing the aged up cast who are currently young (Molly, Negasonic, Hazmat) more than the second generation of hero babies, since we hardly had any time to get to know them.

Thor should zap Captain Marvel more often!

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

4
Pretty descent. But this run has had better storylines.

[Andres Pasten · Rating 3 out of 5]

Entretiene pero no me convence. Ove no me resulta a la altura del desafio.

[Rebeckah Sypik · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a good Captain Marvel time travel comic. Captain Marvel is sent to the possible future, that was shown in generations. Where most of the heros have been killed by unknown aliens and humanity is barely surviving in a radiation filled waste land. Only a small handful of the Hero's kids are alive and they form their own team.

Captain marvel is suddenly transported to this future and she needs to find a way to get back. But people are being abducted and Captain Marvel decides to help them find thier missing people. They know the person responsible name is Ove, but almost nothing else.

Captain Marvel is then sent an invitation by Ove. Suspecting a trap Captain Marvel brings the hero kids with her as back up. Ove turns out to be the son of nemor, and has founded his own city called new atlatis. Which seems like a paradise but many people are being kept as slaves to maintain this paradise. Captain marvel and her team set the slaves free but Ove escapes into the past, Her time period.

Captain Marvel is returned back to her time by the sacrifice of one of her closest friends. She was returned to the exact moment she left, her friends not even realising she was gone. Due to who she meets in the future, Carol regretably decides to end her relationship, with Rhodes. She is now on the lookout for where Ove is in her current future.

There where other twist and turns in this volume that I did not include to avoid major spoilers. Such as who Ove's mother is. Thier was also a side story with thor's daugther, which was pretty good.
Emma frost had some really good wit too.
Overall I really enjoyed this, I hope there will be a 6th volume for this run of Captain Marvel.

[Terrance · Rating 4 out of 5]

This review covers both Black Widow: The Ties That Bind and this book.

Kelley Thompson is doing something here in comics that should be embraced by all writers in the "Mighty Marvel Bullpen" in whatever form that now takes. The magic of what Thompson accomplishes is that she not only creates heroes, she creates real human beings. They speak like people, emote like people, and hurt like people. I've been catching up on Marvel history through a lot of Epic Collections, and though the company was always good with creating heroes with problems, there was still a barrier of somewhat stilted dialogue and exposition. Not here.

With this particular volume of Captain Marvel, not only has Thompson taken our hero to new heights of accomplishment and bravery, but has also created a possible future that can at least stand in the same room as "Days of Future Past." This "kids of our current heroes" future is engaging, sinister, and tragic in equal measure. I can't wait to see where it goes from here.

[Adam Fisher · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 Stars.
During a mission with Spider-Woman, Hazmat and Rhodey, Carol is suddenly whisked away to the year 2052, for unknown reasons. The people there (among the many are: Gerry, the grown up son of Jessica Drew; Brigid, daughter of Thor; Irene Lebeau, daughter of Rogue and Gambit; Dani Cage, daughter of Luke Cage; and Rhodes, daughter of Rhodey, but not Carol) are under the tyranny of Ove, son of Namor and Enchantress. While they live in squalor, Ove is using the powers of Armor, Magik, Jolt, and Crystal to keep a paradise going. He says they are volunteering their time, but obviously we find out that they are prisoners.
I bet you can guess what happens. There's a fight, Ove is able to jump backwards to our time (to fight another day) and Carol gets a chance to return home. Unfortunately, she can't shake the idea of Rhodey not being able to have the kid he is supposed to, so she breaks up with him.
Kelly Thompson really has a great hold on Carol and her gang. I hope she continues to write this book as it continues on. Nice, straight forward Captain Marvel story.
Recommend.

[Lenny · Rating 3 out of 5]

Feeling mixed about this fifth volume; if we had half stars I'd mark it a 3.5. Carol returns to the future world from Captain Marvel: The End, and while it's not a bad story, it doesn't have the same punch as the one-shot. It almost feels like Thompson was inspired by Disney's Descendants, with nearly everyone being a child of superheroes (or villains), even though we don't get to know most of the heroes all that well. The villain is disappointingly standard.

Thompson does keep some of her random favorites around, especially Fuse (who I didn't recognize immediately). While there's a new villain setup, there's a surprising twist with Carol's personal life that feels very out of character. Garbett and Fabela's art is good but doesn't elevate the story enough to make it a must read.

It's not the best or the worst of the series, but at this point I'm committed to seeing it through.

[Ronan The Librarian · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’m over the alternate world stuff for the time being. This is the second dystopia we’ve visited in this series, and while it might have longer lasting consequences (won’t know til next volume), it felt too similar to the first time around. This volume works off the “The End” one-shot of Captain Marvel, and revisits that setting. While there is some value there (Carol seeing how things supposedly play out, interacting with the ripples of her original time), it still felt disposable in that you know how things are gonna go for the most part. She helps that timeline, goes back to her own, and we never see any of those characters again. That’s mostly still true here. I will say, if you’ve enjoyed the previous action-heavy volumes, you’ll probably still like this.

The writing is still fine, as is the art, but the traction and momentum just isn’t building for me at the moment. I still can’t say it’s bad, so it gets a 3 from me, but my interest is beginning to wane.

[George · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kelly Thompson is real good at creating new side characters and making most of the characters feel relatable and modern, and those aspects of her writing really shine in this arc of her Captain Marvel run, where Carol gets thrust to a possible apocalyptic future where some familiar heroes and some new faces (the offspring of known heroes) are struggling to survive the wasteland that New York has become. Carol's arrival uncovers a new threat, a character named Ove that is the child of Namor and Enchantress that will seemingly be Captain Marvel's new Big Bad going forward. Between that, the fish out of water setup, and some of other new characters we meet, this might be the best arc in this run yet.

[Dakota Morgan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kelly Thompson's Captain Marvel run seems determined to hit every comic book cliche available. In The New World, Captain Marvel is zapped to an apocalyptic possible future, where she immediately turns to saving the world because that's just who she is.

Even with the cliche-riddle framing, The New World is a wild ride that occasionally packs a punch. "Ove" is a terrible name for a villain, but the offspring of Namor and Enchantress is plenty intimidating. I'm interested to see where the story goes in the next volume - hopefully to a place with more originality.

A quick aside: why do only the female Marvel heroes get romantic relationships? And why do they always fall apart? Not the best reason to break up with Rhodey, Carol!

[Rocky Sunico · Rating 4 out of 5]

While I generally enjoyed this book as it's a pretty interesting story with a lot of strong character moments, it does beg the questions how many times we're going to throw Captain Marvel into alternate realities or timelines for the sake of story? And it's not even like it was across different creative teams but all within the same volume within Kelly Thompson. I get it - dystopias feel intuitively science fiction-esque or whatever. But it still feels a little redundant to do this again.

Beyond that, the mutant characters really shine and who doesn't love a future where different heroes had kids who either retain their abilities or have a combination of the powers of their diverse parents? It's a little campy but it's still fun and makes for some interesting moments.

[Ross · Rating 4 out of 5]

Want to read a book with strong characters and snappy dialogue? This collection will do you just fine.

Kelly Thompson does it again. She's written great stuff on 'Black Widow' and this is just as good. The story is a fair starting point if you don't want to delve too far back. Carol has just started dating 'War Machine' and her life is stabilizing after a few months of typical superhero adventure craziness.

This is a time travel tale in....yet another dystopia. One we already saw in Captain Marvel: The End. We just get more detail on who the heroes and villains are in this setting (2052).

Bonus: Land Shark cameo. That little thing just keeps popping up.

[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

Didn't we just do a other dimension/alt future story in this run?!!! At least this one has some fun character beats to keep my interested, and future children of hero/villain pairings always peaks my curiosity.
The actual plot isn't anything to write home about, but the end result is fine. The antagonist is just as arrogant as you'd expect, and there's fun to be had with the familiar elements. I particularly enjoyed how Thompson wrote Emma, the fact she stayed in her diamond form to maintain her good looks for decades!? Such a Emma move, I love her for it. And thank God they broke Rhodey and Carol up, no one bought that pairing even a little.