Captain Marvel #3

Captain Marvel #3 Review

Written by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Art by Dexter Soy; (pg 17-18) Rich Elson &Will Quintana,; (pg 19) Karl Kessel & Javier Rodriguez

Story

Captain marvel (still stuck in the past) and the Banshee squad take down a Prowler and discover it's Japanese pilot. Captain Marvel tells the pilot to go back to his base and put together the best squad he can, and to come back for round two. Carol tells the story of how she got her powers and reveals to the squad that the Prowler is Kree technology. The next morning, more prowlers come. Marvel and their commandeered Prowler attack the enemies with ground reinforcements from the other two remaining squad members. They take them down, but only temporarily.

Review

Well...Captain Marvel is really heating up now! Carol's story in the cave to the Banshee's was a nice way of giving readers some history and for giving us some breathing space between the 2 action scenes. The interlude on pages 17-18 really interested me. It features a real battle-axe of a woman in NASA headquarters in 1961 demanding that women be allowed to be part of the space programme, backed up by two other women, one of which is Helen Cobb – whose plane Carol was flying in issue 2. Mr. NASA won't budge on the rules and the woman leaves. Helen stays and gives him a rock, and, judging by his face, he knows what it is. Helen says she has another one and, if he wants the other one, she's be willing to make a deal. DeConnick said in an interview with IGN that: 'There is nothing in what you are seeing here that is extra. It's important. ' so I can't wait for find out the significance. The last page is a retro looking comic page from 1970 'found among the papers of Delores “Daisy” Diddle (one of the Banshees). Nice little tie-in to the main story.

Conclusion

Can't wait for issue 4!