This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is??Captain Marvel,??Vol. 1: In Pursuit of Flight and Vol. 2: Down, by Kelly Sue DeConnick with art by Dexter Soy, Emma Rios, and Filipe Andrade, with colors by Jordie Bellaire. In this series Carol Danvers???long time Ms. Marvel???takes up the mantle of Captain Marvel. She travels through time, fights in World War II, punches a giant robot, and generally hoots and hollers her way through life.
This series represents a major turning point for Carol Danvers as a character, and can be seen as an early indicator of Marvel’s growing push to include more major female superhero characters in their line-up. It also represents a step up in profile for DeConnick, whose husband also writes some kinda sexy crime comic??or something? We’re not really sure who that guy is.
In our recommendation section, our hosts nominated Daredevil: The Man Without Fear, Snowpiercer, Fables, Pretty Deadly, Journey into Mystery featuring Sif, and Starlight for discussion on the next episode, and our selected title is Daredevil: The Man Without Fear.
Our hosts for this episode are Andrew Chard, Tobiah Panshin, Joe Preti, Brant Gillihan-Eddy, Kayleigh Fleeman, and Cade Reynolds.
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Great show! It is fun to listen to!
On the subject of old un-reprinted titles…
Bill Mantlo’s great “Micronauts” run has never been collected (and may never be due to the license…) ????
I collected up the original George Perez Wonder Woman run… and with the back issues averaging about $1.50 each, I got a better deal buying the print issues (which I preferred) over Comixology in the first place (WW 21-63 hasn’t been collected by DC).
And great comments from Kayleigh!
I haven’t finished the podcast yet–in issue 1 of the first Captain Marvel (2012 or whenever), didn’t Captain American acknowledge that Carol is a Colonel in the air force? In the Guardians of the Galaxy annual earlier this year, the writer (not Kelly Sue) and editor forget this detail… and Carol is addressed as an air force captain by the SHIELD robots……
It’s not a big deal, except that colonel is a very high rank in the air force (one level below general) while captain is very low (one level above lieutenant). Kind of makes me wish she’d use a different “Marvel” name… “Colonel Marvel” sounds too militant, though…