THE MIGHTY CAPTAIN MARVEL VOL. 2: BAND OF SISTERS

I thought this volume was much better than volume 1. The art was great, especially depicting the action sequences. Writing still felt a little rushed but not as bad as vol 1. My main complaint was all the time Captain Marvel spent in despair and mourning over Bean, who she barely spent time with, compared to the indifference from Puck and Squatch who was with her the majority of Bean’s frames. This could be just because vol 1 was rushed but it made Captain’s emotional arc feel forced and asking a lot of the reader to fill in the blanks. Other than that I thought the other characters’ banter and emotions were really well written.Edit: Read through it a 2nd time. I think the art and writing works so much better in this volume because of how much they concentrate on these teenage cadets. Margaret Stohl can write for awkward teenage characters very well but seems to struggle with adult characters, especially ones with strict military backgrounds and leadership positions. I think this artist and writer team up would be great for a Spider-Man or Ms. Marvel book or a spinoff of the alpha cadets, but the Captain Marvel series needs to be passed off to another team.

Great continuation of the story

Love the writer of this comix

Great story and love the artwork

I loved the might captain marvels alpha squad they were all strong and independent young kids. Captain marvel was also very strong

Volume 2 of Margaret Stohl's Captain Marvel run really isn't any better than it's first, and I don't know what to make of why. There are a lot of structural issues with this volume, and overall I really don't know where this story is going.So, Volume contains five issues. The first four were tie-ins to Secret Empire, a Marvel event where brainswashed Captain America betrays everyone and takes over the world. Carol and the rest of Alpha Fight wind up stranded in orbit with a force field keeping them out until it's time for the event to wrap up. Honestly, the entire arc just felt like stalling until the end of the event, so I'm not sure I blame Stohl for it.Then there's issue five, in which Carol deals with the emotional fall-out of the event. And by 'deal with' I mean some other Marvel women try to cheer her up in increasingly ridiculous ways. It just felt like a bad gag reel, and the artwork was terrible. I'm pretty much done with this series at this point.

This arc was a mess. It suffered from problems that would be solved by people talking. It had lots of woo-woo handwavium to elaborate the next plot crumb. Some of the tactical battle stuff made no sense, but at least all the punching looked cool? Also this was part of the garbage Captain Hydra plotline. Avoid.

“The Mighty Captain Marvel – Band of Sisters” collects issues #5-9 of the latest in a long line of relaunches/retitling/resomethings of Carol Danvers’ onagain/off again comic book.I remember Carol Danvers from back in the 1960s as the female security chief at the rocket base that Captain Mar-Vell of the Kree was tasked with infiltrating, and I have read most, if not all, of her series over the years, and even when she was written by Chris Claremont and drawn by Dave Cockrum in their heyday, she didn’t sell (though I bought her comics).Now that Marvel has promoted her to being their flagship character and invested her with awesome if undefined powers and a rubbish costume, she still doesn’t seem to sell well.She’s not a dull or uninteresting character, and writers and artists of various qualities and styles have all had a go and failed. I have no idea what the answer is, but this volume is not it – how can you make a giant space invasion dull?The story and characterisation of the excessively large cast are handled well, but the artwork lets it down – in space, there are no ‘universal’ light sources, so the artwork needs to reflect this, and not be lit like you are in the middle of a film studio with lighting everywhere.Then there’s the famous admonishment – “In space, no-one can hear you scream”; this is because it is a vacuum, and therefore sound effects are blatantly ridiculous.Apart from that, it just seems visually a bit dull.Then there’s Carol’s job as a military/authority figure – surely this is not really Marvel’s ‘type’ of character. Apart from Captain America, who has spent as much time rescuing America from politicians as he has from evil empires, and Reed Richards or Professor X, who are as much father-figures as authority ones, everyone else has been, if not anti-establishment, at least frowned upon by the moral majority or Jonah Jameson.And she was undoubtedly on the wrong side in the recent Civil War II.Is it time for another makeover, or just time to pick another female face of Marvel?Where’s Sue Storm when you need her? (Hmmm… didn’t Disney just buy the studio who have the film rights to the FF?)Anyway, apart from all that, this volume is basically about what went on outside the space-shield during the Secret Empire business, followed by an issue of shore leave with most of the other badly-selling female characters.