Re: Ms. Marvel questions


Steven R. Stahl wrote:
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Plus I wasn't realy a fan of this issue. It didn't seem to know what it
wanted to be and a good chunk of the issue seemed to come off like a
She-Hulk style comedy book. Establishing a new ongoing from a minor plot
point in a glorified What If? doesn;t sem like a good idea to me and
Carol doesn't seem like the kind of character who can carry a series by
herself. I expect we'll see lots of guest stars in the first 12 issues,
assuming it sells that well.

Yes, well we'd never get anything new if we only tried things that have
worked in the past.

As a newbie, Brian Reed's performance on MS. MARVEL #1 shouldn't be
judged too strictly, I suppose, but problems with the plot,
characterization, and apparent direction of the series overshadow the
smoothness of the dialogue and pacing.

Reed would have been better off minimizing or ignoring the Ms. Marvel
material in NEW AVENGERS #15, rather than, apparently, basing the
series concept on it. In MM #1, Danvers comes off as intent on
self-promotion, as if supporting herself financially will be done as
much through publicity, etc., as by what she does as a heroine. Danvers
could be likened to an urban detective hoping that a serial murderer or
rapist comes to his city, so that he'll get recognition, airtime,
and, importantly, opportunities for enrichment from solving the crimes.
Uh, what about the victims?

But Carol knows that bad things come to New York in the Marvel
Universe. She isn't hoping it comes, just that she'll be there when it
does.

As conceptual problems go, having Ms. M. able to absorb energy could be
the biggest one the character has. There is considerable truth in the
notion that all energy is either kinetic or potential; the differences
between types of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) involve the particles
moving and wavelengths. Supposing that Ms. M. could absorb kinetic
energy would make the character impossible to write, but supposing that
she can absorb various types of EMR isn't much better. The only
benefit to the latter supposition would be that she would be vulnerable
to blows from objects.

This kind of complaint suggests you shouldn't be reading comics,
because it's the kind of thing they do all the time. Carol's energy
absorbtion was a key part of the Kang War, where she absorbed power out
of his base's reactor and then fired it off damaging the ship.

Ms. M.'s encounter with the Brood ship has little to do with being
proactive, and, unfortunately, sees print at about the same time as
S.H.I.E.L.D., in NEW AVENGERS #16, is shown tracking the descent of The
Collective to Earth. The "classic" (nice term, that) Avengers could
have reacted more forcibly to the Brood ship than Ms. M. did; in fact,
Danvers's old employer, the M.U.'s version of the Dept. of Homeland
Security, likely would have had a role in tracking the ship and
alerting heroes. Acting independently made no difference at all, except
to set up a hard-to-believe situation (No one else reacted to the
ship?). Like Bendis in NA #16, Reed didn't mention the Thunderbolts.

Except for the fact had she not been being proactive it would've hit
with no one noticing. She saw it because she was out on patrol.

The NEW THUNDERBOLTS plotline involving Danvers and the NAers seems
fated to be an aborted plotline, perhaps never to be mentioned again.
This probably isn't the right topic for launching into criticism of
the Bendis-Quesada cronyism, but Brevoort's own recent writings have
made it evident that B. and Q. are the best of friends, and create the
impression that B. is much more than a writer in Marvel's power
structure. Q., if he has *any* knowledge of how to manage in a
corporation, should know how harmful that perception is to employee
morale and performance.

The Thunderbolts issue was cleared up in Thunderbolts 100. She got
pissed at what they did and quit.


Somehow, I don't think that deep in a South American jungle, there
would be a cellular network transmitter nearby that would enable
Cap's cell phone to work.

Maybe as a superhero and frequent agent of the US governement calls to
his phone are routed through a spy satelite of something.

JLB

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