“DID YOU WATCH THE CAPTAIN MARVEL TRAILER” Suzette shouted at me the second I walked into the office this morning. She put the trailer in Good Morning, News, but I’m putting it here too because Captain Marvel deserves her own post, goddammit, and also because I want to publish the above headline.
They had me at “Brie Larson being the Marvel Universe’s most powerful super hero,” but they also had me at “digitally de-aged Samuel L. Jackson” and at “oh sure of course they got the duo who made Half Nelson to make a massive Marvel blockbuster.” (This strategy actually tends to work out pretty great for Marvel; their best movies, like Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Thor: Ragnarok, tend to come from directors who, at the time they got the gig, aren’t exactly the first filmmakers one would think of to make a massive Marvel blockbuster.)
I think we can assume that face-punched old lady is a shape-shifting Skrull, but even if she isn’t, Brie Larson isn’t holding back starting fights on public transit, which we can all agree is what the world needs right now. And while Captain Marvel doesn’t come out until forever, amazing Portland comics writer Kelly Sue DeConnick‘s great run on the Captain Marvel comic—with art by Dexter Soy Emma Rios—should tide you over until then.
