The ironically named “Ms Marvel: Best of the Best” is not a marvel-lous read let alone best of anything; whether she’s a “Ms” or a “Captain”, this is another terrible comic starring Carol Danvers!
It’s a piss-poor introduction to the character. There’s some origin retold here – she was an Air Force pilot! – but no mention of how she got her powers. Not that it had to have that but it would’ve been nice for a relatively unknown character like Carol particularly in a first volume. What are her powers? Flight, super-strength and shooting beams of light from her hands. So three of the most generic superpowers ever. Ok, so far, so terrible – don’t care about Carol at all!
I do know that she got her powers from aliens – so why is her nemesis in this one an evil magician called Warren Traveler? Even Doctor Strange teams-up with Carol here. Why is there such a heavy magical component to a cosmic-themed superhero – is Carol magic or something??
The aliens are in the first half of the book. Some bland Predator rip-off is shooting stuff up for no reason and the Brood are up to something. Carol punches them all and that’s that. Was… that meant to be exciting…? And then there’s the other non-story of Carol getting PR… ? It’s all terrible mush!
Brian Reed writes Carol like every other female superhero at Marvel. You could put practically any other female superhero into this story and it’d still work: She-Hulk, Invisible Woman, Gamora, Jean Grey, Scarlet Witch, Valkyrie, Thor, Sif, Angela. She’s not even remotely distinct as a character on any level and completely failed to make an impression on me. She’s a literal Strong Female Protagonist who hits things, doesn’t have a clear origin, personality, story or much of anything.
Woeful stuff, the first volume of Ms Marvel is another laughably-titled superhero book.
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