Captain Marvel [2016] - Ruth Fletcher Gage & Christos Gage
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- Civil War II - CM is up in space with Alpha Flight. She's using the visions of a young helpful precog to arrive at crimes just as they start, saving many lives. She has to answer to a board of governors that includes Gyrich and Black Panther, all of whom have opinions about the use of the precog. Iron Man disagrees with CM on how proactively to use the precog's visions. Both the front and back cover of this collection imply that CM is going to fight Iron Man, but that doesn't happen. Iron Man isn't present on any page, nor do his words appear. Clearly someone in the sales department didn't think much of the board room drama. But that's unfair, because there's a traitor trying to ruin CM's reputation and she needs to find them fast. Gage's ability to craft a mystery even in super-hero space is admirable, and this part is good. But I just couldn't bother to care about the pages and pages of drama about the "dead" James Rhodes or Banner. Gage could do great things with the ethics of killing and the prison consequences, but of course none of that has any weight for a second in Marvel. [3]
