COMIC CONNECTIONS: The Marvels - Mist and Rhymes

Comics Over Time

Episode 70 - The Marvels - Mist and Rhymes

This week we get ready for the last Marvel offering of 2023 – the much anticipated and oft maligned The Marvels. This movie figures to have a ton of new or new-ish faces, and we are here to help you know a bit more about their comics history before you head to the theater.

This Week In Comics

Marvel Introduces The New Punisher In First Series Preview

• https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/marvel-new-punisher-series-preview/

Invincible Season 2 now Streaming on Amazon Prime

• https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a45712825/invincible-season-2-release-schedule-prime-video/

New on Marvel Unlimited this Week

• https://www.marvel.com/comics/calendar/week/2023-11-05

Recommendation: March and Run by Andrew Aydin and John Lewis.

• https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/1MA/march
• https://run.abrams.link/

This Week's Stack

• Silver Surfer (1991) #53
• Avengers (1992) #346
• Captain Marvel (volume 8 - 2014) #9
• Ms Marvel (2014) #1-5
• Photon (2022) #1-5

2 Minute Recap and Discussion Topics

Silver Surfer (1991) #53 and Avengers (1992) #346

• Dar-Benn is another character that is very thinly developed
• Dar-Benn’s presence would seem to hint at power struggles within the Kree Empire as a major reason for the conflict in The Marvels

Captain Marvel #9

• Sort of an inverted “Save the princess” story. Weird, though.
• Lila Cheney! Has been around for decades. Started in New Mutants.
• The prince is a bit of a two-dimensional character. Noble and idealistic with chiseled abs. Could be the Captain Marvel equivalent of Moon Knight’s Arthur Harrow.

Ms Marvel (2014) #1-5

• Very lighthearted and delivered with no cynicism or snark
• A really interesting insight into modern life for a Pakistani-American family
• Good is not a thing you are. It’s a thing you do.

Photon (2022) #1-5

• What a weird comic story
• Lots of movement, but almost no action
• Does revisit many eras of Photon’s life, and seems to be trying to act as a reintroduction of the character. Feels like it is trying to do for Monica Rambeau what the 2012 Captain Marvel series did for Carol Danvers

Final Thoughts

What's Next

• The Marvels (in theaters this weekend)

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