Still delivering the natural dialogue, and continuing with not-stale conflicts/villains/antagonists/whatever. The creative teaming here continues to deliver - fun, adventurous, unusual, and grounded.I really enjoy reading this book. It's entirely like watching a bunch of old friends - it's clear they're very comfortable around each other, there's none of that comick-booky speech impediment that sounds like a bad Shakespeare impression. Instead I just get to hear people giving (and barely taking)...

After reading her surprisingly good Avengers Assemble series, I thought it’d be worth revisiting Kelly Sue DeConnick’s Captain Marvel – was I too harsh with the first volume? Welll… not really, unfortunately. Here’s why I think her Avengers series is basically the opposite of her Captain Marvel series, and why they differ so much in quality. Avengers Assemble is a series which has volume-length arcs that are self-contained, hence no Volume 1, 2, 3 etc. and anyone can pick them up and enjoy them

This was very disappointing. The first half was OK, but if I hadn't read up in other locations about who Monica was it would have meant nothing to me. I don't expect recap of years of history for new readers when each issue is so short, but the source of their rivalry was very unclear without outside knowledge. As for the art, it's very, very clear that the first half was better than the second, but the colors were questionable. I'm pretty sure Monica is supposed to be African American, but in a...

3.5 starsI enjoyed this volume quite a bit more than the last one. For some reason, I'm still not sold on this Captain Marvel, though. I've noticed that she's certainly not a solo-superhero, and I like that she seems to collect friends and allies as the book moves forward. Also, she's a decent person.So this time around the big Thing is that she has some sort of a tumor in her head, and if she uses her flight power...bad things happen to her brain.She won't die, but she'll lose all memory of wha...

Whoa, a Captain Marvel book I really enjoyed. I knew it would eventually happen. This one is a lot more family/friend drama, and I think that's when Carol becomes more interesting. With dealing with her dying friend and her cancer, to working on defending the world from a giant T-Rex, with also dealing with her own sickness she is developing, this poor super lady has a lot on her plate. Once she starts helping others it just goes to show how much it is effecting her. She's gain headaches that ar...

DeConnick pulls out all the stops here. There's giant sharks and a mech and a mysterious villain and guest stars and... Oh, and there's also characters with human emotions and frailties speaking to each other naturally, like people who have known each other for a very long time. I can't ask for anything more than this, a superhero comic with both style and substance.

Captain Marvel is seriously going to make the best movie! Enjoyed this volume a lot, wasn't quite as good as the first - but Kelly Sue DeConnick is a fantastic writer!

Carol's day-to-day routine is disrupted by a giant robot, a dinosaur fight, and a throwdown with Deathbird. Her world is turned upside down when she discovers a tumor in her head could erase her memories if she keeps flying. Considering Carol is a pilot and loves flying, guess if she stops...A better collection than volume 1 in terms of writing and story, but I didn't like Felipe Andrade's skinny and asymmetrical art in the last four issues. I'm also not clear on the pseudoscience behind the tum...

Carol's interactions with Monica Rambeau--ex-Avenger and hero with a strange ability to manipulate, absorb and transform into energy--during strange giant robot incident are fun. They're very sarcastic with each other. Carol's interactions with Jessica Drew/Spider-Woman always involve great quips.The other half of the storyline sets up The Enemy Within (which I read out of order) and cleared up a lot for me. Now I know where the very useful Wendy came from. Tony Stark's interference with Carol's...

Really enjoying DeConnick's Captain Marvel run. One of the best things is that Carol is allowed to have female friends and they talk to about their passions, worry about each other, and enjoy one anothers' company. That is harder to find in comics than some would think. I also love that Carol's outfit seems pretty practical. Even the sash around her waist is actually a tool she uses on multiple occasions in the series. Captain Marvel, Vol. 2: Down starts out with a fun plot involving Carol and M...

Strong start in volume one, and I had high hopes for volume two. It started strong with a great robot bashing, but unfortunately right after that, the artwork dropped below inferior. The lines made everyone look like angular myopic freaks.Okay. That really shouldn't mess to hard with the story, per se, but the story was just okay. Some really interesting things were happening and being alluded to in the first volume, all of which were ignored pretty much entirely to set up a possible Great Retco...

As with the first Captain Marvel book, I liked half the art (Dexter Soy's work) and then hated the latter half. More so in this one. Carol just looks deformed in half of this. But story-wise, this is another good volume: Carol as Captain Marvel is rash, determined, unstoppable, and the latter half of the book with the worries about her health kept me interested. It doesn't matter that I'm lacking some of Carol's backstory -- and the Helen Cobb story from the first volume seems to be playing a bi...

Solid story with above-average art as well.

This was surprisingly good like Carol and Monica team up to clean some underwater debris and they have to take out a transformer like villain and its so cool the way they do it, combining, you see their team work and friendship and the next team is with Jessica Drew vs Dinosaurs and then she has been a having a problem in her brain, a lesion which is making her cause hallucinations and then she is advised to not fly but that's impossible for her and when her old enemy Deathbird comes in to take

DeConnick did it again - she delivered a powerful story with a kickass heroine, the perfect amount of mystery and action, great dialogue and narrative flow, plus a well-rounded cast of equally amazing side characters and villains.I think it would have been even better if I had read some Ms Marvel issues first to stay up to date with certain events that occurred in this volume, however, I never feel like I'm in way over my head with DeConnick's work - she always makes sure to put the reader up to...

3.5 stars. I didn't realise when I borrowed this from the library that it was volume 2, which was more than a little annoying as I know practically nothing about Captain Marvel except that she's a badass and a pilot and Marvel are making a Captain Marvel movie. Thankfully, Wikipedia helped out with the couple of things that threw me, and the rest was fairly smooth sailing. I ADORED the first two issues in this. The art was glorious, Carol was basically 1000% sass, and she was well on her way to

For all the work they did establishing Carol Danvers badasskickery in the last Volume, they undo a bunch of it here. I understand part of it is for the story narrative, but too much of it makes her into an idiot, immature, and dumb. Also, this version (written by the same author as the first volume) seems to focus on the jokes more than other parts. So where she was badass tough girl Vol 1, she's jokey girl who is emotionally stunted here.It was interesting to team her up with an earlier Captain...

Cognitive dissonance is balls.So, look. I love Kelly Sue DeConnick's writing. I love Carol Danvers. In general, I am a huge fan of everything that is going down in this book. BUT THE ART WAS SO DISTRACTING AND I HATED IT.The first two issues were okay. Dexter Soy continued his run from the first volume. And while I'm not a fan of his art, either, at least he manages to draw people that look like actual people. Starting at issue #9, Filipe Andrade takes over, and while there's a certain beauty to...

Why I am so behind on comics: this book came out in June. I ordered it for my library in June. It finally got processed and sent to me... yesterday. In November. But it was worth the wait. I love everything about this!! Carol, obv, but also Monica and Jess and Wendy and Kit and CHEWIE <3 <3 <3 I love that it's just cool, smart, strong women kicking ass (and kicking shark and kicking dinosaur) and having sort of relatable human problems (such as taking your cat to the vet, only to be attacked by

I really want to love this series but it keeps disappointing me. My main complaint: I had no idea what was going on or who the other characters were. It's only been a few months since I read the previous volume, I can't have forgotten all of it, can I? Who is Monica? What are her powers? Who is Frank Gianelli? Did Captain Marvel work at "Woman" magazine in the previous volume? Why was that mentioned so often? Who are Rose, Dr Nayar, and Tracy? Why did Carol take Tracy to Dr Nayar if the appointm...