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Carol Gets New Writers and an Updated Look
The next volume of Captain Marvel will not be written by Kelly Sue DeConnick, whose written for Carol since 2012.
Instead, Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas from the TV series Marvel's Agent Carter will be taking over the reigns for
Carol's next comic book series. Along with the new writers, Marvel's also provided Carol with an updated uniform.
The next volume of Captain Marvel is set to début in December of 2015.
Personally, while I enjoyed DeConnick's take on Carol in her first run as writer for Captain Marvel (2012-2014), I feel like the quality of DeConnick's work for her second run really wasn't up to par. When DeConnick sent Carol into outer-space, and introduced several new and, in my opinion, uninteresting supporting characters, it brought back not-so-fond memories of when Spider-Man was sent into outer-space in the Spider-Man Unlimited cartoon series. That show surprisingly lasted a whopping 13 episodes and was a pale comparison to the 1994 -1998 Spider-Man cartoon series that came before it. Ask anyone who was a child of the 90's what they thought about Spider-Man Unlimited and you'll likely find that no one even remembers it. I feel the same will be said about this last volume of Captain Marvel because, honestly, it just wasn't very memorable. Some of the issues were actually down right hard to read, like issue #9, aka the musical issue. Ugh, I'm not sure who DeConnick's target audience was, but the majority of comic book readers are grown men and women, not 5 year olds. Honestly, it got to the point where I felt embarrassed buying Captain Marvel comic books at my local comic shop because the story felt so juvenile and uninteresting.
I was honestly shocked that it was while DeConnick was writing the latest volume of Captain Marvel that Marvel actually announced a Captain Marvel movie. I wasn't shocked because I thought Carol was undeserving of a movie, but rather because she was so unpopular with most Marvel fans, and I knew DeConnick's latest run of Captain Marvel wasn't going to earn Carol any new fans (I think some were actually lost along the way). So honestly, I'm actually glad Marvel has given Carol new writers, even if they're untested in the land of comic books. Hopefully Butters and Fazekas can propel Carol into a new realm of awesomeness that's she's been destined for, and in the process they should do everything in their power not to remind readers of how mediocre the last volume of Captain Marvel was.
Carol's Updated Look
Along with Carol getting new writers, she'll also be getting a slightly modified outfit and a, err, really bad haircut. Carol's been known to rock
different haircuts over the years, some short and some long. Heck, as Binary her hair was on fire, literally. However, all of Carol's haircuts
have looked pretty stylish in my opinion (even the on fire one). Well, that is up until I saw this one. This new haircut doesn't look like it would be stylish on a man, let alone a woman.
Excuse me for not being politically correct, but this new haircut is also the most unfeminine of all her haircuts, and that, coupled with Carol going from
being Ms. Marvel to Captain Marvel makes me think Marvel has an issue with Carol's femininity.
Some people might argue that giving Carol the moniker
of Captain Marvel was a step in the right direction for empowering women in comic books. I say replacing the Ms. with Captain only served
to remove the femininity of her name and make Carol sound more androgynous.
Yes, I've heard people argue that if Mar-Vell got to be Captain Marvel, why was Carol relagated to Ms. Marvel. I say, you're thinking way too hard about it. It's a superhero
alias, not a title. And Ms. Marvel has and will always sound better than Captain Marvel (because it contains alliteration).
I mean, Iron Man and Spider-Man get to keep the man
in their names, why couldn't Carol keep the Ms. in hers. But even more so than that, why can't Carol keep her awesome long locks of hair. I'd hate to see
children look at her comic book and mistaken her as a man. Young girls should be able to see a comic book featuring a female superhero whose proud of her femininity, not a female
superhero that appears to be ashamed to be a woman.
Hopefully, Marvel just lets Carol's hair grow back (and the sooner the better).
(Interesting side note: Marvel probably only gave Carol the Captain Marvel name because they need to publish a comic book with the title "Captain Marvel" every so often in order to retain the rights for the name.
Since every other character that has had the name Captain Marvel has generally been unpopular, Marvel decided to give it to Carol and then give her a comic book series with Captain Marvel for its title.
That way, DC can't try to acquire the rights for the name and give it back to Shazam! who, let's face it, is the
character most well known for being Captain Marvel. Honestly, though, Ms. Marvel and Shazam! are much better sounding names, so what's the point.)