So in a break from the knitting news, I’m going to squeal a while about the Carol Danvers movie that’s coming out. In an announcement made yesterday Marvel gave us a date (6th July 2018) for the Captain Marvel movie and I am SO EXCITED.
It’s not a secret that Captain Marvel is one of my favourite characters of all time. She is resilient, hilarious, and deserves a lot of attention. Thanks to the marvelous (pun intended) write Kelly Sue Deconnick the new Captain Marvel series has become one of my most cherished.
And now there’s going to be a movie.
The only thing that would be better is a joint movie with Ms. Marvel tagging along as her feisty side-kick.
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Anyone else as excited as me for the new run of Marvel movies?
The latest run of Captain Marvel is written by Kelly Sue DeConnick who I met (along with her amazing husband Matt Fraction, writer of the recent Hawkeye series) last year. She’s an incredible writer and brings us Carol Danvers as a strong and interesting character full of depth and great plots.
Also… her costume is really great.
At the moment we’re not following the comics due to funding issues so since I’m starting to seriously miss my monthly binges on comics, Captain Marvel was the obvious choice for this week’s FPC.
How can we not love Captain Marvel when aesthetically her outfit is so pleasing? And for once it’s not in a yay-boobies kind of way but because it’s three primary colours looking amazing side by side. These gloves are on my to-do list for the autumn.
If you’ve read the series you’ll remember Carol’s lucky hat from #9. Here it is, crocheted in all its glory. Now the Jayne hat has nothing on this for proclaiming fearlessness.
Carol Danvers is badass. Carol Danvers doesn’t need any of this oxygen nonsense. She’s happy enough to fly out into space past the vivid colours of the setting sun and out into the black, no matter who she’s leaving behind. It’s just something she needs to do.
And now for something completely different…
Baby Groot
by Alexandra Chmiel
Baby Groot narrowly missed out on being including in the previous Rocket and Groot Guardians of the Galaxy-inspired post and he is disappointed in a very friendly, forgiving way. Which means he’s going to be tacked onto the end of this. I’m 100% sure Cpt Danvers wouldn’t mind for a second.
That’s it for this week. I hope you enjoyed my little round-up of patterns. If you have any on theme to share, please do! The more the merrier.
Unfortunately for anyone wanting a giggle, I don’t mean comic in the funny sense. Nope, I’m geeking out over here at all the beautiful and awesome comics I’ve discovered in the last year of hoarding collecting them.
Jupiter’s Legacy. I don’t know what this is, I only picked it up ’cause it was on offer at the store.
Secret Avengers. I only have one.
The Superior Foes of Spider-Man. I dropped this one last month.
Captain Marvel. SO AWESOME.
Hawkeye. The comic that really snared me into the world.
Fearless Defenders. Mixed feelings on this one.
Young Avengers which by all accounts is awesome.
It might not come as a surprise to you that I seek out comics that are female-friendly. I don’t mean that in the wishy-washy fluffy pink way; I like my violence and angst as much as anyone. However, a lot of comics feature so much boobs-and-butts poses that I can’t pay attention to the story anymore, if there even is a story beneath the gratuitous objectification. Usually there isn’t.
I like to pick up a comic and lose myself for a few minutes. For this, any feminists out there looking to dip your toes into the world of comic geekery, just pick up something by Kelly Sue DeConnick who is my new hero. I got a comic signed by her a few weeks ago and she’s just as wonderful as I expected. In the list above three of my four favourites so far are Captain Marvel, Pretty Deadly, and Avengers Assemble; all written by DeConnick. The other on my best-of list is Hawkeye which is written by Matt Fraction – Deconnick’s husband. Yeah. They’re the power-due of awesome comics right now.
Aside from the Hawkeye Annual which was lazily drawn and awkward, the women in all of those comics are human-looking. A lot more so than in some of the other more mainstream ones I’ve picked at random in the past.
Anyway. These are the comics I’m adoring right now. My only disappointment is that I can’t knit and read comics at the same time.
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