The book's Secret Empire tie-in will offer plenty of opportunity to turn things around, but it's still on Stohl and Rosanas to make good on their obvious talent. Read Full Review

It's still a pleasant read, even if it won't necessarily blow your mind. Read Full Review

It has as big of a scope as it can, considering the main Secret Empire series has already shown where this ends up, but it does mean that Stohl can continue to pile on the pressure to see how well Carol contends. Read Full Review

Carol enlists three cadets just in time to get swept up in the Secret Empire mess. The good news about adding teen characters is that it plays hard to Margaret Stohl's writing strengths. The Alpha Cadets form a terrific emotional core that should make this new arc a lot more relatable and interesting than the last one. Bad news? Ms. Stohl's still not so hot at writing Carol Danvers or snappy one-liners. Michele Bandini's art is generally pretty good, although the Chitauri attack taxes his crowd-drawing skills. This issue had two colorists and they couldn't even agree on which parts of Cap'n M's uniform are what colors; it's a problem that marginally competent editorial oversight could/should have fixed. It's another point in favor of my theory that Marvel doesn't give a ☠☠☠☠ about the quality of the finished product on this title. At least there's more creative talent on display here than there was in the last arc.
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