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COMIC CONNECTIONS: The Marvels - Mist and Rhymes

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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)

    Signoff 

    Questions or comments

    We'd love to hear from you!  Email us at [email protected] or find us on Twitter @comicsoftime.

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