Marvel The Life Of Captain

Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers, is training with the Avengers and is being overly aggressive. Tony Stark pulls her aside to talk to her about why and she confesses that it's because of Father's Day. Her dad was an alcoholic and not always a good dad. He tells her to take some time off and go home to Harpswell Sound and visit with her mom and brother Joe Jr. She also reconnects with Little Louis who isn't so little anymore and is running the local donut store.Her and Joe Jr. have words about her not being there when dad was sick and not being there much since. Carol points out that Joe always sticks up for dad even though he did some terrible things. They are at the cemetery at his grave having this argument when Joe, who had been drinking, drives off and crashes his car. Carol saves his life, but he's in a coma and paralyzed. Instead of going back to the Avengers she stays with her mother and helps to take care of Joe.Then she stumbles upon some old love letters her dad wrote to a woman and a mechanical device that she inadvertently turns on which is a beacon that leads to the Krill home planet and leads a woman to head toward Earth. Is she the woman her dad had the affair with? Or is she someone dangerous to the family? When she arrives she has come to fight Carol's mother who is really Mari-El and a Krill. So, Carol really got her powers from her mother, not Marv-el. The woman takes Joe and mother and daughter must fight to get him back.This comic was incredible in its depth of characterization. Carol dealing with her family issues and finding out about the truth about her parents and learning what led to her father's drinking and perhaps leading to some understanding and forgiveness of her father. The artwork was also amazing for example when Tony appears in electrical ghostlike form to talk to Carol about coming back to the Avengers. Or the black and white funeral scene that is haunting. This is a great book and I give it five out of five stars.

Carol has been struggling with memories of her now deceased alcoholic father's abuse of her brothers, and she cannot understand why her mother stayed with him. So she goes home to try and find answers before she hurts someone working as an Avenger.I'm not sure what I expected here, but this simple one shot was just a quick retcon of Carol's origin. Heavy with sad memories, but not really consequentual. She was still hit by the Kree psychemagnitron, but it didn't giver her powers; it activated them. She is half Kree. Not a bad story, but just a quick read that has too little meat to stand out.

An excellent mini-series that adds layers and much needed fixes to the life story of Carol Danvers. Important background work is done for Captain Marvel as a hero but primarily by focusing in on Carol as a person, daughter, sister, and team-mate.

Great Book and enjoyed the other separate issues included such as Ms. Marvel (1977). I am new at purchasing complete volumes of comic books. Very surprised to find other issues inside.

Best retcon I've read. Story is well out together, and engaging on multiple levels.