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In Pursuit of Flight
Higher, Further, Faster, More
Ms. Marvel: Last Days
The Enemy Within
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I actually read all those. And were rather sucky.
I read almost all the Captain Marvel Carol volumes, along with Ms. Marvel Generations and The Life of Captain Marvel.
Aside from Generations (where the protagonist is Kamala actually), the only one I ended up liking a bit was “The Life of…”, good closure, but boring stuff for the most part, and not cinematic at all.
As for the Kamala/Carol relationship, I don’t see it happening in the big screen. TV series rather.
IKR, and I think MCU will use that version. Makes more sense, IMO.
We don’t know what Marvel cares about when it comes to Spiderman. This second movie of their Sony partnership hasn’t even released yet. All we know is that Peter is in high school. Early enough in his story that he really hasn’t met anyone yet.
She’s interesting insofar that there is character development. She has never really been a standout character alone but she has had multiple utility or glue member narrative positions. She often plays the emotional leader to counterbalance Cyclops cold effectiveness style, she supports other characters during difficult times and increases Professor X’s telepathic range and reiterate his rhetoric amongst other things. In 120 minutes of filming it’s hard to capture these qualities when there is a large ensemble cast and multiple thread points where her presence isn’t needed for a scene.
Therefore for most audiences she is redundant to Xavier because it’s hard to capture the things that meaningfully separate them with the amount of screentime they have. Xaviers leadership and philosophy is ubiquitous and there are always scenes showing his empathetic side because he preaches peace and pacifism. Jean Grey at that point is left as another telepath but who also has telekinesis which is only shown off for small stuff or in an ancillary way during group fights.
If you want a better film version of Grey’s character it’ll have to be one where Professor X is absent as the defacto leader.
Maybe he’s no longer care? I’ve seen lots of cb writers who were so worshipped they got sick and stopped caring about anything or what people thinks about them.
Claremont and Byrne went bad in the last 20 years, too.