Ms. Marvel #50

[schmevil]

So, this issue is awful. Like, really and truly godawful. A cluttered mishmash of poorly plotted action, awkward wrap up, and Carol doing a S7 Buffy speech while Spidey randomly sticks to things and is marginally (if blandly) cute. I hated every last thing about this issue, save that it was the last one, and I'll never again be subjected to Sana Takeda's blurry, sexed up rendition of Carol. I'll never again be subjected to Brian Reed's complete disinterest in, and slow train-wrecking of a character I love. God, this series started out so promising, and had some great moments: Arana, Machine Man, Sleepwalker, Chewie, the whole Wonder Man drama. What the hell happened?


Some things I really didn't like:

- He writes Mystique as being LOLOLDESTRUCTION! rather than with any depth or nuance.

- He considers Mar-Vell to be Carol's One True Love. Too bad he was always with someone else.

- The limp ending: shit blowed up good; Carol gave a Buffy speech; the end. Seriously!?


The one good thing:

- Carol has given up on the Best of the Best motto, in favour of Best I Can Be. Considering her personality, this is a wise move.


So this is the end. RIP Ms. Marvel. May your next shot at a solo title not suck quite so heinously. D:

Comments

[elspethdixon]

At least it's over? I liked the first couple story arcs, but by the time Secret Invasion ended and I said "to hell with it" at current Marvel canon in general, I wasn't exactly sad to give it the title up.

He considers Mar-Vell to be Carol's One True Love

Which is an interesting interpretation considering that they never were involved while he was alive - it reminds me of that one letter-to-the-editor in one of the old volume one Avengers issues where some (male) reader is insisting that Wanda Maximoff's one dream was to marry Steve Rogers. edited to add: why did the past few years of Marvel canon insist on forcing het pairings I do not want down readers' throats while simultaneously screwing with all the canon het pairings I actually like? Like Peter/MJ and May/Jarvis and Matt Murdock/a woman who isn't crazy, evil, or dead.

[valtyr]

where some (male) reader is insisting that Wanda Maximoff's one dream was to marry Steve Rogers

What he means he that HE wants to marry Steve Rogers, and if he does, then by God, every woman does.

and Matt Murdock/a woman who isn't crazy, evil, or dead.

You and your crack pairings.

[elspethdixon]

You and your crack pairings.

Hey, Milla was none of the above until Brubaker got his hands on her. I now kind of wish she'd stayed gone after divorcing Matt and not tried to get back together with him -- she would have been spared the crazifying. (I also wish Rumiko hadn't gotten back together with Tony that last time and doomed herself to pointless death. She was one of Tony's better girlfriends. I mean, she didn't knowingly sell him out to a supervillains or try to kill him or anything, and I'm sure she never would have slept with Tiberius Stone that one time if she'd known he was a crazy supervillain who killed his parents and wanted to make Tony his naked harem slave).

[valtyr]

Well... she might have gone for naked-harem-slave Tony.

[elspethdixon]

But only if it was consensual, and only if Ty was willing to share.

[valtyr]

I am inclined to believe if they'd gone the asking nicely route, instead of the trapping in virtual reality route, Tony might have been more amenable to being a naked harem slave.

[schmevil]

I picked up the Essential Captain Mar-vell, so soon I'll have an actual basis for my wiki-fueled suspicion that their entire relationship has been vastly exaggerated.