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Of Embassies and Origins - Justice League International Part 2 (Eaglemoss Collection v77)

  Review: Since we are doing a series of reviews focusing on Booster Gold over his nearly 40-year history, we include this one as a collection of some of his earliest appearances, dating to late 1987. That places the original publish date of these tales while his original solo series was still going strong.  This book is a beautiful, glossy hard-cover with smooth and heavy-stock paper inside, although the sometimes-low print reproduction quality leads to blurred and hard to read word balloons on occasion. It is also a rare book here in North America, as Eaglemoss Collections targeted UK fans with this series. At this point in the history of the 1987-rebooted Justice League, they have gained official United Nations recognition and sanction. To ensure their reach truly is global, they rebrand as Justice League International (as does the title of the series!) and they open new headquarters buildings around the world: New York, Paris and Moscow are included here. As this is a product of 19
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The Light Touch of Real Strength - Review of Captain Marvel vol 2 Stay Fly

 

Cover of Captain Marvel v2 Stay Fly


Review:

With these three tales, spanning issues #7 - 11 of the Captain Marvel ongoing series, writer Kelly Sue DeConnick's marvelously imaginative plots take our hero into three vastly different life and death confrontations.

This series is driven by emotion and relationships, and artists Marcio Takara and David Lopez do a solid job of conveying both through their work. Their images take turns with DeConnick's dialog to give depth to the storytelling. A perfect page example has a series of Carol Danvers headshots, all rendered so well that the tone of the speech attached to them is crystal clear. 

The first tale sounds dull - a daily-life rendezvous as Captain Marvel returns to her own ship, being looked after by the Guardians of the Galaxy. So prosaic and ordinary is the premise that we get panels of her brushing her teeth and ordering coffee. But the creatively twisted mind of DeConnick throws in Rocket Racoon's reprogramming of her ship's speech module into Cat. And not to be missed is the awesome reveal that her cat is ... not a cat. If you're not familiar with its Flerken powers from its other appearances in comics or the 2019 Captain Marvel movie, its mouthful of tentacles is a great and sudden surprise revelation. Oh, and there is also the attack by a ship full of oozing black goo.

Our author then pops our hero to a whole other universe for a battle to the death over choice and marriage customs, in which the dialog is entirely spoken in rhyme. Writing this took how much time?

Finally, Carol Danvers returns to Earth for 24 hours, to visit a dying loved one. Only to be captured by two twisted villains with a plot to steal her powers for themselves. But before they can finish their evil plans, Captain Marvel is rescued by.. Santa Claus? Yet as the villains struggle with their own power, the quiet confidence and strength of Captain Marvel shines through clearly and brilliantly.

Kelly Sue DeConnick gives us a delightful series, filled with fantastic jumps between bizarre, fun and deeply imaginative adventures and situations.


Description:

The Secrets of Chewie!

Captain Marvel, Earth's Mightiest Hero with an attitude to match, is launching headfirst into an all-new adventre! As Carol Danvers comes to a crossroads with a new life and new romance, she makes a dramatic decision tht will alter the course of her life - and the entire Marvel Universe. But as Carol takes on a mission to return an alient girl to her homeworld, she lands in the middle of an uprising against the Galactic Allance and the 4Spartax! While investigating the forced resettlement of Rocket Girl's people, Carol discovers she has a history with the man behind the plor. But when the bad guy tries to blackmail Carol and turn the Avengers against her, it's payback time! Guest-starring the Guardians of the Galaxy!

(Note: this is the description from the back of the book. However it describes Volume 1 not Volume 2, and is a misprint on this edition of the book)

Collects: Captain Marvel (2014) #7-11

Authors: Kelly Sue Deconnick
Artists: Marcio Takara, David Lopez
Published By: Marvel 
Published When: Jan. 1 2015
Parental Rating: Teen+
ISBN: 978-0785190141





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