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Meet The New Captain Marvel

Last week, Bleeding Cool told you that Kelly Sue DeConnick was to reinvent Carol Danvers as Marvel's Captain Marvel.  Marvel has just confirmed this at WonderCon, revealing further details.  The ongoing series is written by DeConnick with art by Dexter Soy. Marvel also revealed covers for issues #1 and #2 of the series by Ed McGuinness.

"My pitch was called 'Pilot' and the take can pretty much be summed up with 'Carol Danvers as Chuck Yeager,'" says DeConnick. "Carol's the virtual definition of a Type A personality. She's a competitor and a control freak. At the start of our series, we see Carol pre-Captain Marvel, pre-NASA even, back when she was a fiercely competitive pilot. We'll see her meeting one of her aviation heroes and we'll see her youthful bravado, her swagger. Then over the course of the first arc we're going to watch her find her way back to that hungry place. She'll have to figure out how to be both Captain Marvel and Chuck Yeager—to marry the responsibility of that legacy with the sheer joy being nearly invulnerable and flying really [expletive] fast.

Jamie McKelvie designed the new look of the character, saying:

Our idea was to give her a kind of swash-buckling costume that invoked a sense of her history as an Air Force officer. Her hair is slicked back at the sides when in costume – so her Kree-style helmet can form when she needs it.

Meet The New Captain Marvel

Meet The New Captain Marvel

Meet The New Captain Marvel

Meet The New Captain Marvel

Meet The New Captain Marvel


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