Cru!! The swarm! The Queen! Mm seems to take a page out of "Alien" here, but it works. Good story arc about invaders, blue heroes, and possible Skull I posters in the lightning crew. Plenty of action and the class MM angst, the Sturm und drang is quite heavy here. Still, an entertaining read.

An interesting story revolving around the Puppet Master, with a nice bit of background into Carol's Kree side, as well as a nice lead in to the Secret Invasion storyline.

Machine Man and Sleepwalker join Ms. Marvel's Operation: Lighting Storm squad (Is this not the worst name for a team?). Machine Man adds some much needed humor to the book fresh off his turn in NextWAVE. The team goes up against an even pervier take on the Puppet Master as he's engaged in sex trafficking. Then Cru returns to help take down the Brood again bringing closure to that story from the first arc. Aaron Lopresti's art is very good. These stories aren't bad, nor are they memorable. It's a...

Disjointed. Melodrama with not conclusion. The art was consistently good throughout all the entire run. The story is a little repetitive and becomes dull as a result.

Yikes

We get seven issues and two stories.First up is the three-part story Puppets. Puppets does some nice things. It really strengthens Operation Lightning Storm by introducing Robotman and the the giant stalking character of the Sleepwalker. They (particularly Machine Man) have a solid time. With Miss Marvel, we get to see the level of concern to Anya. The Puppet Master makes a sick villain.The four-part "Monster and the Marvel" story finds Carol dragged off by the Cru to Monster Island as Carol ret...

So she went out with William *once* and basically obsesses over him every few pages of this volume? Blech. But. . .why? I thought this was interesting, seemed to throw back a lot (which actually. . . most of this series has "thrown back" to other classic villains or characters). So the end with Cru was kind of amazing (no spoiler). Machine Man or Aaron, as he prefers, was pretty funny as well.

This finally ties up the story about the alien Cru and its effect on Carol Danvers. It was a decent enough explanation but not an amazing one. Bringing in the likes of Machine Man and Sleepwalker felt very random but I guess it sort of worked out to give Ms. Marvel more of an ensemble. The bigger mystery is Agent Sum and his seeming super healing abilities but I suppose that'll be further explored in another story.

Better than vol 3 for sure. Looks like it's getting interesting again!

I have no idea why I keep reading these especially when I am really not enjoying them. I was unclear where this picked up from even with the recap at the beginning of the book. I did not hate this but it is just not something that I am really liking.

A 4 star volume with the return of Cru, an alien Carol has fought before, who comes looking for her. Cru is far more interesting in this volume than she has previously been and forces Ms. Marvel to take a look at herself and her own actions and behavior. The Puppet Master arc in the beginning was okay. It was weirdly gross. Even if the point was that enslaving women is heinous at the same time it felt like wish fulfillment fantasy aimed at the reader. The second arc with the brood was great thou...

I liked the plot, mostly because I really don't know much about Carol and her history at all. So I'm glad to see her past. I liked Cru a lot, very interesting character. And it starts to bother me that Carol is the only woman of the story, why can't be more agents or superheroines helping her?

I love Carol especially the Ms Marvel era's and while this was a fun little story it felt just strange to read. The side characters all played a huge role into that feeling - Anya was incredibly annoying throughout the entire thing, MachineMan was honestly entertaining, Sleepwalker? Why? Etc. Carol herself was being overshadowed by other things within the book. It's a fun read but there are better ones out there being honest.

There's definitely bits of this book I do like. But the pacing is off. And it ends up being monster of the week. And the monster appears without warning with an implied backstory. And then it is dead and gone just as the next monster appears. And Carol's relationships have that same feel - whether with Anya or Wonder Man or whom ever. And her powers also have that randomness. So not exactly a bad book, the writing and art was okay. Just not a particularly good one.

Really picked up halfway through but the series so far is still not the most well structured or has any characters worth emotionally investing in. Not yet anyway.⭐️⭐️ for Ms. Marvel: Puppets⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ms. Marvel: Monster and Marvel

I felt this was just as good as the last volume, if not a little better. There was a deep exploration of who Carol Danvers is, which I always enjoy because she is one of the more complex female super heroes in the Marvel Universe.But before moving on, damn Machine Man stole the show. Every page he was one was pure awesome and had me laughing and almost wishing this was a machine man series and not my favorite super heroines.The first story, the one with Puppet Master as the villain, it was almos...

This volume really embraces the absurdity of comics, letting Ms. Marvel lash out a lot more, although there's a Deus Ex Machina surrounding her that tends to lessen the feeling of a threat. This volume also brings in MachineMan, whose presence automatically adds a star from anyone who enjoyed NextWAVE (and he's not far off his terrible best here, adding a lot of laughs). The first multi-issue story, about a pervy creep Puppet Master who is involved in the sex trade (a topic that only gets the br...

Um....okay...so there was some great stuff here dealing with Carol's shortcomings and strengths...and then there is some weird sexist stuff that makes it really clear it's a male creative team. Mind-controlled beautiful women? Really? And the first image is of Ms. Marvel dangling from puppet strings...which actually has nothing to do with the story. Just...yeah.I loved the alien Cru though. Especially when she's telling Carol to essentially "woman up." Carol is a powerful warrior, but also worri...

I'm not the biggest fan of the Brood, but I'm a huge fan of Aaron Stack, and I'm thrilled to see him used to such good effect in this book.

4.5 rounded upFinally feels like it's really hit its stride