Clever way to open the comic. With this full page shot of a time magazine issue on Captain Marvel. Feels like something that more than one superhero comic has probably featured. Because it's a clever idea. (Captain Marvel #13):
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365 Marvel Comics Paper Cut-Out SuperHeroes - One Hero, Every Day, All Year…
December 28th - Captain Marvel / Mar-Vell
Following an incident wherein one of their Sentry units was destroyed on earth, The Kree Empire dispatched an agent to the planet to determine whether or not its populace posed a threat to The Kree. Captain Mar-Vell was selected for the mission.
On Earth, Mar-Vell adopted the identity of a recently deceased scientist named Walter Lawson. Throughout his mission, Mar-Vell would often don his Kree military uniform to protect the people he was observing. The first time he does this, a bystander mistook his name and he came to be known as ‘Captain Marvel.’
Mar-Vell’s tasks on earth were frequently hampered by his envious Kree colleague, Yon-Rogg, his growing affection for humanity, as well as his fake identity's criminal past. During this time Mar-Vell also became romantically involved with the Naval officer assigned to oversee Lawson, Carol Danvers.
After aiding humanity several times, Mar-Vell would be found guilty of treason against the Kree Empire and sentenced to death. Yet Mar-Vell escaped the Kree home world in a stolen rocket and ended up in league with the rogue Kree accuser, Ronan. Along with a corrupt minister named Zar-ek, Mar-Vell was manipulated into aiding an attempted assassination of the Kree Supreme Intelligence. So to better help them, Mar-Vell was given a new costume and enhanced abilities. After the conspiracy was foiled, Mar-Vell tried to return to Earth. On the way, however, he was hit by a blast of radiation that trapped him within the Negative Zone.
The Supreme Intelligence mentally reached out to Mar-Vell and enabled him to telepathically contact Rick Jones, which he uses to lead Jones to a set of ‘nega-bands’ at an abandoned Kree base. When Jones put on these bands and struck them together, it acted to cause him to trade places with Mar-Vell, encasing Jones within a protective aura in the Negative Zone. Jones and Mar-Vell discovered they were able to maintain telepathic contact. Using this method, Mar-Vell was able to remain in the positive universe for a period of up to three hours.
With Rick Jones as his conduit to Earth, Mar-Vell would go on to have further adventures, aiding the Avengers in putting an end to the centuries-long Kree/Skrull War and defeating the Mad Titan, Thanos. Ultimately, Reed Richards helped device a means of freeing Mar-Vell from the Negative Zone.
Some time later, Mar-Vell discovered that a past adventure where he was exposed to the poisonous Compound 13 gas had resulted in his developing a rare and deadly type of cancer. Unable to find an effective treatment, Mar-Vell came to terms with his fate and was offered palliative care abroad Mentor’s space station in orbit of Jupiter’s moon, Titan. In his final hours, Mar-Vell was visited by his many friends and colleagues and even past adversaries. In the end, the sprit of Thanos came to Marv-Vell and introduced him to the entity of Death who gently ushered the hero to the unknown realm of the afterworld.
A version of Mar-Vell featured in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, portrayed by actress Annette Bening. The hero first appeared in the pages of Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (1967).
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"....CAPTAIN MAR-VELL WAS THE YOUNG CAPTAIN SLATED TO BE THE FIRST TO MAKE CONTACT WITH HUMANITY."
PIC INFO: Spotlight on a splash page featuring Silver Age Captain Marvel, a.k.a., "Mar-Vell," Kree Sentries on the rampage, and Carol Danvers upon their first encounter with the Kree warrior, from "UNIVERSE X" Vol. 1 #0. September, 2000. Marvel Comics.
Pencils by Doug Braithwaite
Inks by Bill Reinhold
Colors by Laura Depuy
Letters by Todd Klein
"The Supreme Intelligence launched a Kree mission to Earth. Captain Mar-Vell was the young captain slated to be the first to make contact with humanity. If you measure movement according to the ability to exact change in a given situation, the Earth really did stand still that day. Mar-Vell came as a spy, but found himself soon thrust into the role of hero."
-- KYLE RICHMOND, formerly Nighthawk, Earth-9997 (story/script by Jim Krueger & Alex Ross)
Source: www.zipcomic.com/universe-x-issue-0.
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What if...? S2 E2 Review:
Man, Asgard cannot catch a break lmao. How many times has it been destroyed now? Poor Thor.
And speaking of Thor, I love him here. When he first showed up and knocked Quill out he looked menacing as hell! Honestly his appearance here is proof you can make him both goofy and badass at the same time without assassinating his character *cough* Taika *cough*
Thor also being the character who is in the most teams is funny to me.
Also really nice how both Hank and Quill got closure by learning to care about others, I really liked his parental side of Hank instead of the usual grumpy old man he is in the movies. Pretty sure he just went on and adopted the kid, probably a good thing that Quill has a father figure now that isn't a megalomaniac. Hope and Quill siblings real!
Can I also say how sad it is that Howard never gave up on Bucky? He kept hope that his friend was in there somewhere, even when he told Peggy to move on... Which makes what happened in the main timeline all the more heartbreaking. (Also this episode implies that Peggy and Howard always knew Bucky was turned into the Winter Soldier or at least they had suspicions that it was him) and he's free at the end so hopefully he'll end up in a better future than the main timeline.
I enjoyed this more than last episode and I definitely would like to see more of the 80s Avengers.
Final Score: 9/10.
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