{"id":29040,"date":"2023-12-09T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=29040"},"modified":"2023-12-08T20:02:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T20:02:49","slug":"captain-marvel-game-on-marvel-action-captain-marvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2023\/12\/09\/captain-marvel-game-on-marvel-action-captain-marvel\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Marvel: Game On (Marvel Action Captain Marvel)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Sam Maggs<\/strong>, Sweeney Boo<\/strong>, Mario Del Pennino<\/strong>, Isabel Escalante<\/strong>, Brittany Peer<\/strong>, Heather Breckel<\/strong> & various (MARVEL)
\nISBN: 978-1-3029-5115-3 (TPB\/Digital edition)<\/p>\n

Win\u2019s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Total Entertainment Perfection\u2026 10\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2003 the House of Ideas instituted a Marvel Age<\/strong> line: an imprint to update classic original tales and characters for a new, young readership. The enterprise remodelled in 2005, reduced to core titles Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four<\/strong> and Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man<\/strong>. The tone and look mirrored the company\u2019s burgeoning TV cartoon franchises, in delivery if not name. Supplemental series including Super Heroes<\/strong>, The Avengers<\/strong>, Hulk<\/strong> and Iron Man<\/strong> chuntered along merrily until 2010 when they were cancelled. In their place new volumes of Marvel Adventures: Super Heroes<\/strong> and Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man<\/strong> debuted. Since then a wealth of material crafted for more innocent audiences (often TV and movie affiliated) has been crafted under the umbrella of \u201cMarvel Action<\/strong>\u201d. This mega compilation – gathering together three earlier collections comprising Marvel Action Captain Marvel<\/strong> (2019) #1-6, and Marvel Action Captain Marvel<\/strong> (2021) #1-5 – offers a bonanza of role models for girl readers and furious fun-filled thrills for all lovers of light hearted superhero silliness and mayhem. And that\u2019s most of us, right?<\/p>\n

Written throughout by Sam Maggs (The Unstoppable Wasp: Built on Hope<\/strong>, Tell No Tales<\/strong>, Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man<\/strong>) Carol Danvers<\/em> steps up as premier super-doer of Earth beginning with a tale of cats breaking newsreaders and other stuff.<\/p>\n

Illustrated by Sweeney Boo and colourist Brittany Peer, it opens with \u2018Big Flerken Deal\u2019<\/em>, as Kree colonisers gather up and weaponize all those scattered fluffy house pets with interdimensional voids in their mouths. It should have been a secret but their tech also affected cats on Erath, triggering the weirdest, cutest assault New York ever experienced\u2026<\/p>\n

Happily Captain Marvel and Spider-Woman<\/strong> were having a girls-night-in and were ready for action, even if it did lead to Carol being abducted to the little sweeties\u2019 new homeworld and another insane battle in \u2018Don\u2019t Be Flerken Ridiculous\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Some last-minute assistance from her BFF and tagalong Chewie<\/em> (that\u2019s Carol\u2019s own house-flerken as seen in films and mainstream comics), Star-Lord<\/strong> and the Guardians of the Galaxy<\/strong> show up, and everything finally ends well for all but the Kree in \u2018I\u2019m Flerken Out!\u2019<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

MACM <\/strong>#4-6\u2019s \u2018Bug Out!\u2019 <\/em>co-starred The Unstoppable Wasp<\/strong> (Nadia Van Dyne<\/em>) and begins with the secret teenaged daughter of Hank Pym<\/em> getting driving lessons from Carol. Of course things go awry – they\u2019re using Tony Stark<\/em>\u2019s favourite sports car after all – when Advanced Idea Mechanics attack, trapping them at miniscule height and unable to use Carol\u2019s powers without blowing up the city – and maybe the world\u2026<\/p>\n

Forced to \u2018Hive It Your Way!\u2019<\/em>, Carol and Nadia invade AIM and uncover \u201cOperation Roadkill\u201d: a plot to destroy all superheroes using stolen Pym Particles. Incensed at being used as a trial run and using The Wasp\u2019s G<\/strong>enius I<\/strong>n action R<\/strong>esearch L<\/strong>abs (G.I.R.L.) associates as technical support and the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl<\/strong> as back-up, the ticked off team of \u2018Queen Bees!\u2019<\/em> target AIM Supreme Scientist Monica Rappaccinii,<\/em> shatter her plan and save themselves from exploding before \u201cfixing\u201d Tony\u2019s wheels and riding off into the sunset\u2026<\/p>\n

Although the title ended there, Marvel Action Captain Marvel<\/strong> restarted in 2021. That volume opens with Mario Del Pennino, Isabel Escalante & Heather Breckel rendering \u2018Look at Meme Now!\u2019<\/em> and \u2018Do Androids Meme of Electric Sheep?!\u2019<\/em> as a chance meeting with Ghost Spider<\/strong> Gwen Watson<\/em> intersects with The Mad Thinker<\/em> hijacking social media to program kids into being his mind slaves. Sadly, that workforce now includes almost every teen metahuman in the world, but those are mere distractions as the Thinker\u2019s Awesome Android<\/em> uses the crisis to go sentient and go solo\u2026<\/p>\n

With order restored, and Carol (a little) more computer literate, Captain Marvel faces a realty crunching crisis as Sweeney Boo & Brittany Peer return for 3-part thriller \u2018Game On!\u2019<\/em> as a mystery opponent traps Earth\u2019s Strongest Hero in a constantly-shifting cyberspace whilst her allies can only watch and wait\u2026<\/p>\n

With covers and variants by Brianna Garcia, Sara Pitre-Durocher, Yasm\u00edn Flores Monta\u00f1ez, Karen Hallion, Megan Levens & Charlie Kirchoff, Nicoletta Baldari, Gretel Lusky, Kaela Lash, Nicole Goux, this is a star bright and breezy procession of witty and wonderful all ages escapades to delight and enthral, and inevitably inspire.
\n\u00a9 2023 MARVEL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sam Maggs, Sweeney Boo, Mario Del Pennino, Isabel Escalante, Brittany Peer, Heather Breckel & various (MARVEL) ISBN: 978-1-3029-5115-3 (TPB\/Digital edition) Win\u2019s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Total Entertainment Perfection\u2026 10\/10 In 2003 the House of Ideas instituted a Marvel Age line: an imprint to update classic original tales and characters for a new, young readership. The … <\/p>\n

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