'Marvel-Verse: America Chavez'
And oh yeah, they're about America Chavez, the queer, POC superheroine from the stars and beyond, who is one of the most powerful people in the Marvel Universe.
'Marvel-Verse: America Chavez' packs a punch, quite literally!
America Chavez is very much a punchy heroine - her punches are so powerful they can create portals to alternate universes! - and she is the aggressive, temperamental, brawn-over-anything-else, even reckless and irresponsible sort. But I find I've fallen in love with her character anyway, for how brazen, robust, snarky, and 100% herself she is, with an often-no-effs-given attitude and disposition.
She is a young queer woman of colour who is bold, daring and defiant - she lets nothing and no one get in her way, or tell her what to do and how to live her life; whilst respecting her family, friends, and places/
planes/planets of origin. Now that is admirable and revolutionary.
She's out of this world - out of this universe. A transcendent, transdimensional, time-and-space travelling woman, a drifter, who can be grounded when she needs to be. She belongs nowhere in the multiverse, nor to any fixed superhero team. Nothing can keep her for long.
For all her flaws, America still manages to be interesting, endearing, and human (despite coming from another universe and planet(s) - a singular dimension, the Utopian Parallel, plus the Planeta Fuertona, where she is a Starling (whatever that is) - the tragic Utopian Parallel was her original home, where she was raised by her tragic, sacrificing two mums).
(Everything in the above is what is severely lacking in the comics collected for 'Marvel-Verse: Moon Girl', which I hated.)
America is a lost rebel and vagrant who is unapologetically herself, never doing things by halves. She is
She's out of this world - out of this universe. A transcendent, transdimensional, time-and-space travelling woman, a drifter, who can be grounded when she needs to be. She belongs nowhere in the multiverse, nor to any fixed superhero team. Nothing can keep her for long.
For all her flaws, America still manages to be interesting, endearing, and human (despite coming from another universe and planet(s) - a singular dimension, the Utopian Parallel, plus the Planeta Fuertona, where she is a Starling (whatever that is) - the tragic Utopian Parallel was her original home, where she was raised by her tragic, sacrificing two mums).
(Everything in the above is what is severely lacking in the comics collected for 'Marvel-Verse: Moon Girl', which I hated.)
America is a lost rebel and vagrant who is unapologetically herself, never doing things by halves. She is
big. She is a literal star. Throughout her travels across the multiverse, she is trying to find her true home, where she belongs, and to find herself, destroying all limits and boundaries in order to reach her potential, which is in fact as endless as the cosmos.
America Chavez - again a queer woman of colour, and an immigrant and alien in every sense, who is not to be messed with - is a powerful being to be admired, not someone to be made into an object of fear, distrust and suspicion (by the white supremacist patriarchy, for example).
Before, I had only heard of this superheroine in bits and pieces all across the Marvel medium (other dimensions, hey!). I have seen all of her movie appearances (both animated and live action), but not so much in the comics. Now I have, and I am glad I finally gave her a chance there. This bold, brash, brass, mighty, "woke"-as-f*ck fighter deserves further mainstream recognition.
'Marvel-Verse: America Chavez' contains comics that are cosmic, creative, colourful and complex, if a little confusing (how much of the alliteration can I keep up?!). They are also diverse and inclusive as hell. So powerfully inspirational. America is surrounded by friends who are as cool, multidimensional, and diverse in rep as she is.
Also included are Loki (*sigh* of course, not like he's overused or anything), Scarlet Witch's kid Billy Kaplan, aka Wiccan, his boyfriend Hulkling, aka Teddy Altman, Monica Rambeau (called Spectrum here), Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers, Black Panther, Blue Marvel, aka Adam Bernard Brashear, Storm, Captain America/Steve Rogers (the latter four are very brief cameos), Hawkeye/Kate Bishop, Prodigy, aka David Alleyne, Peggy Carter, Moon Girl, aka Lunella Lafayette (who is as much an arrogant, self-important, self-obsessed, obnoxious, rude, disrespectful, unpleasant brat as she is in 'Marvel-Verse: Moon Girl', sadly, and yet we're still expected to adore her, with how much the other characters shill her!), Devil Dinosaur, and Lisa Halloran (America's ex, and a paramedic and doctor, who I have also seen as a friend of Jane Foster in other Marvel comics).
Not sold yet?
America punches Hitler in this.
Hopefully I don't need to sell you on anything else.
I've recently been collecting the 'Marvel-Verse' comics that showcase Marvel's superheroines, and so far 'Captain Marvel', 'Ms. Marvel', 'She-Hulk', 'Jane Foster, The Mighty Thor', and now 'America Chavez' are my favourites.
America Chavez - what an awesome, awestriking star!
Final Score: 3.5/5
America Chavez - again a queer woman of colour, and an immigrant and alien in every sense, who is not to be messed with - is a powerful being to be admired, not someone to be made into an object of fear, distrust and suspicion (by the white supremacist patriarchy, for example).
Before, I had only heard of this superheroine in bits and pieces all across the Marvel medium (other dimensions, hey!). I have seen all of her movie appearances (both animated and live action), but not so much in the comics. Now I have, and I am glad I finally gave her a chance there. This bold, brash, brass, mighty, "woke"-as-f*ck fighter deserves further mainstream recognition.
'Marvel-Verse: America Chavez' contains comics that are cosmic, creative, colourful and complex, if a little confusing (how much of the alliteration can I keep up?!). They are also diverse and inclusive as hell. So powerfully inspirational. America is surrounded by friends who are as cool, multidimensional, and diverse in rep as she is.
Also included are Loki (*sigh* of course, not like he's overused or anything), Scarlet Witch's kid Billy Kaplan, aka Wiccan, his boyfriend Hulkling, aka Teddy Altman, Monica Rambeau (called Spectrum here), Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers, Black Panther, Blue Marvel, aka Adam Bernard Brashear, Storm, Captain America/Steve Rogers (the latter four are very brief cameos), Hawkeye/Kate Bishop, Prodigy, aka David Alleyne, Peggy Carter, Moon Girl, aka Lunella Lafayette (who is as much an arrogant, self-important, self-obsessed, obnoxious, rude, disrespectful, unpleasant brat as she is in 'Marvel-Verse: Moon Girl', sadly, and yet we're still expected to adore her, with how much the other characters shill her!), Devil Dinosaur, and Lisa Halloran (America's ex, and a paramedic and doctor, who I have also seen as a friend of Jane Foster in other Marvel comics).
Not sold yet?
America punches Hitler in this.
Hopefully I don't need to sell you on anything else.
I've recently been collecting the 'Marvel-Verse' comics that showcase Marvel's superheroines, and so far 'Captain Marvel', 'Ms. Marvel', 'She-Hulk', 'Jane Foster, The Mighty Thor', and now 'America Chavez' are my favourites.
America Chavez - what an awesome, awestriking star!
Final Score: 3.5/5
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