So, I know I said that I was done with Ms. Marvel. But then I saw the teaser that indicated that Carol Danvers would be coming back to her title very soon. I wanted to see Carol kick Moonstone’s ass so bad, so I decided that I would swallow Brian Reed’s mediocre writing for a bit longer. So what does he do in this issue? He has her go up against nameless thugs and then some fake psychologist who is actually a psychic trying to kill the Dark Avengers. Why? So he could make Moonstone simultaneously more relatable and more psychotic. How does he do that? By making her play media darling and then reveal that she killed her own mother. It’s nowhere near as nuanced as the way Warren Ellis handled her in Thunderbolts.
So that’s basically the entirety of this issue. Pointless filler. It doesn’t even sort of justify why Moonstone is taking over this title for the next few months. Brian Reed really isn’t that good a writer. Rebekkrah Isaacs is another artist whose art looks just about the same as all the other artists this title has seen. So this is just a pretty pointless comic book nowadays. It’s been that way ever since Secret Invasion. Ms. Marvel needs a better writer and a top-tier artist if Marvel is ever going to make me think that they take her seriously. I mean, this was possibly the most boring issue thus far. The quality doesn’t improve; it declines. It’s pretty sad that a writer could lose his grasp on a character as time goes on. And then they gave him a character to write that he understands even less.
Plot: 6.5 Art: 7.8 Dialogue: 6.8 Overall: 6.8
