College stuff

I’m doing this thing for psychology and it’d be really helpful if anyone could spare 5 minutes to complete this survey. It’s a few pages long but it’s just box-ticking and should only take 5 minutes.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/DMB2YSZ

CAPTAIN MARVEL #6 Tara Butters & Michele Fazekas (W) • KRIS ANKA (A/C) CIVIL WAR REENACTMENT VARIANT COVER BY TBA CIVIL WAR II TIE-IN! • Old friends face off as enemies in an event that will change Captain Marvel’s life forever. • As war erupts, Carol finds herself at the forefront of battle. But after tragedy hits too close to home, how far will Carol go to fight for what she believes in? • This is Captain Marvel at her finest. In her toughest fight yet.

Captain Marvel | Dexter Soy

Ms Marvel - LSCC 2016 Pre-Show Commission

some work out Carol, now that it’s not too much of a spoiler anymore

Carol doing her thing

So. I realized I’ve never actually talked about the design process for the new Captain Marvel costume, and I thought that’d be a good way to kick off November.

When I came onto the book, one of the first things myself and the editor talked about was the design of the costume. Not so much that we HAD to do a redesign, but just some things that we had the opportunity to take a second look at now that we had the chance. I really wanted to take this moment to make the costume just a little more “me”.

But the Mckelvie costume isn’t broken, so it didn’t need to be fixed. I just wanted to add little flairs. One of my jumping off points is that I love the Warbird costume carol used to rock, so I wanted to take elements of that and bring it to her Captain Marvel costume. This is where the gloves, and the ideas of the knee pads and straps on her torso came from. I submitted two ideas that were just initial passes, but were basically the extent that I wanted to provide changes. One was a look more or less what was already in existence (it’s the one that was picked), and the other that just returned the “red belly” look.

We were approved for the first design, with a few alterations. The belt was the only specific note: instead of just being a sash, making it into a real belt with pouches so it can serve a function. I kept the sash hanging off it because I liked it for the visual drama. I made a few other small tweaks throughout the design for the final (the boots, the collar). But we also wanted to flush out the hair a bit. Everyone on the book liked and agreed with my desire to cut Carol’s hair really short (I just really liked it visually and it happened to also fit the direction of the book), so I took a few passes at other short cuts; trying to find the right balance of formal, short, and feminine. Ultimately F was chosen. 

And then it was a pretty short step to get to the final design. Although even after the official announcement of the book and design I still made some tweaks (notably the collar, if you go back and compare to the original design sheet). and thats basically it. probably the least pain-staking redesign I’ve done haha. probably to make up for all the other designing I had to do for the book *wink*

a scrapped carol drawing I’m going to miss

When Carol Danvers went by the name “Ms. Marvel,” she was a B-List Marvel character at best. For a solid 15+ years, she was pretty much written out of the Marvel Universe as a member of an outer space group of pirates – one that only appeared a handful of times. No one except for Marvel superfans with a deep back issue collection knew her name.

Then she becomes Captain Marvel, becomes an unquestionable A-List Marvel character that has countless articles in mainstream publications written about her. Her profile increases like whoah, with ongoing series, a mainstay presence in the Avengers books and – here’s the kicker – a movie greenlit called Captain Marvel starring her.

So, seeing as how relatively unknown and unpopular the codename Ms. Marvel was when she used it and how omnipresent she is as Captain Marvel, how in the world do people with just a passing knowledge of the Marvel Universe know her as Ms. Marvel and also call her Ms. Marvel? How does that happen?!

I don’t need an answer to this.

Here we go

Well would you look at that (from the Marvel booth at SDCC)

Kinda homage of “Captain Marvel″ #7 with new design (created by The Mighty One) that i reeeaaaally love.  - Dima

Captain Marvel #1 (via deathface-ginny)

The new Captain Marvel series will be drawn by Kris Anka, and written by the Agent Carter show runners,  Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas.

They will be playing up her roles as a soldier, commander, and diplomat as she heads up a space station with the mission of keeping Earth safe from alien threats. S.W.O.R.D won’t exist in All New All Different Marvel, so she won’t be stepping on any toes.

Kris’s tweaking of Jamie’s design is awesome, maybe even better. I’m impressed with how he made the costume even more sharp and clean.

Nicole Perlman and Meg LeFauve to co-write Captain Marvel