Theshowrunners of Agent Carterare postulate on Carol Danvers in her Modern series , and they ’re bringing a lilliputian TV inspiration with them . Except it ’s not from their own Marvel show ! They ’ve fundamentally turn Captain Marvel into a superhero translation of Star Trek : Deep Space Nine , and it makes for a very promising scratch line .
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pillager ahead for Captain Marvel # 1 , by Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters , Kris Anka , Matthew Wilson , and Joe Caramagna .
I intend that Deep Space Nine connexion pretty literally , too . Carol ’s latest risky venture experience her leaving Earth behind ( something she ’s also doing for her duties as part of the Ultimates team ) and becoming the Commander of Alpha Flight Space Station , an orb program that acts as both Earth ’s first line of defense from alien threats , but also a diplomatical outreach for the Marvel creation . Despite desperately want to spend most of this first issue wanting to punch things , Carol ’s unexampled job see her require the day - to - mean solar day run of the station , and , much to her mortification , engage in diplomatical talks with exotic races about space post sanitisation .
It ’s less about the defense of Earth , and more about dealing with spirit on a place station , looking after a crowd , and dealing with citizenry who are most definitely distressed to see Carol — like her frosty second in Command , Abigail Brand . The actual vindication is left to the Alpha Flight ( a Modern take on the classic Canadian superhero squad featuring such “ look , who again ? ” character like Sasquatch , Aurora , and Puck ) , re - imagined here as the post ’s special forces security and spacefighter wing .
It ’s a really interesting take on the variety of cosmic side of Captain Marvel as a part . There ’s the get-up-and-go and pull of Carol wanting to be a superhero out at the front of the natural action , while also needing to apprehend the rigors of command and discreetness , that really does evoke DS9 ’s Captain Sisko at his most punchy . So far , there ’s just less of DS9 ’s hallmark moral complexity , and a similar amount of citizenry walking around in quad - onesies .
in reality , when Captain Marvel does get literally punchy , it ’s astonishingly the least interesting bit of the comic . It turn out the foreign raceway that Carol was negotiating with to aid run sanitation on the Alpha Flight station were secretly behind a meteorite strike that almost destroyed it , which need Carol to fly out with Alpha Flight in support and save the day .
Although the moment is dynamical and wonderfully draw by Kris Anka ( as is the rest of the book — between Anka ’s clean linework and Wilson ’s undimmed colour palette , the outer space station has another Star Trek sci - fi vibration to it , just more of the original series era rather than DS9 ) , it ’s also the present moment the comic become most superhero - y. Here ’s the admonisher that the Star Trek bit is adjuvant to the “ superhero in quad ” bit , which is a shame .
In combining the two so far are a full bit of fun — and the serial sets up a piddling ongoing mystery when Carol and Alpha Flight encounter a foreign foreign ship that attack the station bearing the Hala Star that ’s on her supersuit — but I was surprised at how enjoyable the “ liveliness on a space place ” side of this scenario is , to the stage I wanted to get back to that rather than the superhero fights .
I ’m not saying that Carol should give in to the desk problem she fear ’s she ’s signalize up for , but if Captain Marvel can equilibrate its superhero action with some Star Trek - ian infinite - station - bound stories , this could turn into one of the better Marvel cosmic comics available at the present moment .
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