Captain Marvel: Liberation Run
Nov. 25th, 2020 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethA whole text only novel about Captain Marvel.
This is not a subtle book. It's Captain Marvel vs planet of the evil patriarchy, where men have powers and enslave any women with power on the grounds that they just can't handle it, poor afflicted things, they'll only hurt themselves.
So Captain Marvel is their worst nightmare.
Which is cool. Not subtle, but lots of whoosh and boom. Very comic book, just no illustrations.
I have to say it almost lost me around the point Carol organises a mission to a planet where the whole planet is under a power suppressing field, which suppresses powers, so people with super powers can probably not use their powers
and brings only people with super powers.
I mean, it's very drama, wondering which bits of their powers will work for how long, but one suspects that, say, a team of Hawkeye, Hawkeye and Black Widow, maybe Mockingbird, just from the very short list of Marvel heroes I know... a team whose skills would be exactly the same whether or not the power suppression was on, could probably have been a valuable contributing part of a team there.
I mean, obviously the story managed without them, but... she could have asked anyone.
And I feel like Black Widow would have Opinions about a whole world that raises women to be weapons. You know. A few.
But we got Captain Marvel, Mantis, Ant Man and a dude called Amadeus who hulks out to being Brawn. Who is from comics and I havent met before. Also they met someone called Hepzibah, who is apparently a space skunk lady with pheremone powers, though I had to look that up.
Hepzibah was on a prison planet and also has Opinions about patriarchy slave prisons, expressed mostly through explosives. I am willing to like her, so far.
I am not from comics. I just saw the Captain Marvel movie and grabbed some things that said Captain Marvel. I have that familiar reading fanfic outside my fandom feeling, where nobody gets a physical description if you're expected to know them, and the backstory seems rushed if it's mentioned because it's actually a recap of several decades.
Probably I am slightly sideways of the intended audience of this book.
But I liked the plot okay and it passed the day.
This is not a subtle book. It's Captain Marvel vs planet of the evil patriarchy, where men have powers and enslave any women with power on the grounds that they just can't handle it, poor afflicted things, they'll only hurt themselves.
So Captain Marvel is their worst nightmare.
Which is cool. Not subtle, but lots of whoosh and boom. Very comic book, just no illustrations.
I have to say it almost lost me around the point Carol organises a mission to a planet where the whole planet is under a power suppressing field, which suppresses powers, so people with super powers can probably not use their powers
and brings only people with super powers.
I mean, it's very drama, wondering which bits of their powers will work for how long, but one suspects that, say, a team of Hawkeye, Hawkeye and Black Widow, maybe Mockingbird, just from the very short list of Marvel heroes I know... a team whose skills would be exactly the same whether or not the power suppression was on, could probably have been a valuable contributing part of a team there.
I mean, obviously the story managed without them, but... she could have asked anyone.
And I feel like Black Widow would have Opinions about a whole world that raises women to be weapons. You know. A few.
But we got Captain Marvel, Mantis, Ant Man and a dude called Amadeus who hulks out to being Brawn. Who is from comics and I havent met before. Also they met someone called Hepzibah, who is apparently a space skunk lady with pheremone powers, though I had to look that up.
Hepzibah was on a prison planet and also has Opinions about patriarchy slave prisons, expressed mostly through explosives. I am willing to like her, so far.
I am not from comics. I just saw the Captain Marvel movie and grabbed some things that said Captain Marvel. I have that familiar reading fanfic outside my fandom feeling, where nobody gets a physical description if you're expected to know them, and the backstory seems rushed if it's mentioned because it's actually a recap of several decades.
Probably I am slightly sideways of the intended audience of this book.
But I liked the plot okay and it passed the day.