Carol Danvers is a fan-favorite Avenger and in 2014 she’s going higher! At New York Comic Con Marvel revealed an All-New Captain Marvel #1 by current writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and artist David Lopez.
“We’re taking her cosmic,” announced DeConnick at the panel, “We are taking her into space in a Flash Gordon / Buck Rogers, my way or the highway kind of way.”
When DeConnick launched a new solo series she focused on Carol’s experience as a pilot and that will continue to be an inspiration to writing the Avenger. Continue reading CAPTAIN MARVEL Goes Cosmic
Just 1 week until GeekGirlCon 2013 in Seattle. The convention is dedicated to celebrating and honoring the legacy of women in all aspects of geek culture, including science and technology; comics, the arts, and literature; and game play and game design.
Denise Crosby (Lt. Tasha Yar on Star Trek: The Next Generation) and writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Captain Marvel, AvengersAssemble) and professional cosplayer Chaka Cumberbatch are first time special celebrity guests. Continue reading Get to GEEKGIRLCON
Batman Cosplayer and the Batmobile at Rose City Comic Con photo by ComicsBlend
Build a bigger con and they will come!
Thousands of comic book and sci-fi fans packed the Oregon Convention Center for Rose City Comic Con this weekend. In just one year the Portland con quadrupled its show size with more celebrity guests, more panels, more game tournaments and more everything geek-tastic in a town that’s known for comics.
Avery Brooks who played Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was a huge draw and among the brand new celebrity faces greeting Northwest fans for the first time. Some of the faithful brought DS9 comic books, Continue reading Rose City Comic Con Bigger and Better
courtesy Rose City Comic Con and Periscope Studios
Rose City Comic Con is just one week away! Portland is the home of an incredible comic book scene with cool comic shops, writers and artists. It’s a perfect city for geektastic creativity and celebrating the comics, movies, television shows and videogames we geek out for.
Comic book writer Kelly Sue DeConnick will appear at GeekGirlCon 2013. The event celebrates the contributions of women to geek culture in comics, science, gaming, film and more.
DeConnick has been in the industry for the last decade, writing comics and adapting manga into English including the scripts for Kare First Love, Black Cat, Sexy Voice and Robo and Blue Spring.
DeConnick’s best-known mainstream comics work is with Marvel Comics. Ms. Marvel became Captain Marvel with DeConnick at the helm of the new series that debuted last year with Carol Danvers in a new costume and role.
Rose City Comic Con will welcome what you could call Marvel’s power couple: Matt Fraction (currently writing Fantastic Four, FF, Hawkeye and known for his runs on Uncanny X-Men, Invincible Iron Man, The Mighty Thor and his creator owned Casanova) and Kelly Sue DeConnick (writer of Captain Marvel, Avengers Assemble, Avenging Spider-Man, Castle and Ghost for Dark Horse.)
Captain Marvel #7 courtesy Marvel
Rose City Comic Con will held September 21st and 22nd in Portland, Oregon. Fraction and DeConnick are appearing at Emerald City Comicon in Seattle March 1-3.
Deadly, gorgeous and damaged. Joss Whedon and Scarlett Johannson made Black Widow and badass beauty with a dark past in The Avengers. The SHIELD operative is haunted by the “red” Continue reading Black Widow’s Sins
A new creative team launches an amazing race between the biggest brains in the Marvel Universe in this week’s Avengers Assemble #9!
Writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Captain Marvel) and Artist Stefano Caselli welcome Spider-Woman and the new Captain Marvel are joining up too. Bruce Banner and Tony Stark will form two teams in a race to find a missing scientist.
DeConnick and Executive Editor Tom Brevoort talked with Marvel.com about new members and tone of the movie-friendly title.
“These are the AC/DC Avengers. When I saw the movie, I managed to keep in together until Iron Man came onscreen and Back in Black blared. I bounced up and down in my chair. That’s the moment I’m writing for,” Kelly Sue DeConnick said.
“These will be tight ‘get in, get out’ adventures, focused mostly on the classic, ‘public’ Avengers from the movie, drawing in other characters as it demands. Big impact.” – Tom Brevoort added.
The inclusion of Spider-Woman on the teaser image sparked excitement for a bigger role…movie role…for Jessica in the Avengers sequel.
“I really really like Jessica Drew. I like how crazy and broken she is. She’s a character I really wanted to write,” DeConnick revealed.
“I don’t ever want to be in direct competition with Brian Michael Bendis. I might be able to beat him up, that’s possible. We’re different writers with different takes. We do have a similar sense of humor and love for banter-y dialogue. I have been a fan of Brian’s for many years long before I knew him. But I’m writing my Avengers book,” DeConnick said of following Bendis.
“The first arc is kind of an Amazing Race thing where the Avengers are teaming up and competing with each other. Spider-Woman is with Hulk and Thor with Iron Man,” DeConnick said of her initial story.
DeConnick just relaunched Ms. Marvel as the new Captain Marvel and now becomes the first female writer on an Avengers title.
“I’m very interested in making sure women knowing that wanting to work in this industry is not peculiar. There is not anything in heroism or sci-fi that is exclusively masculine. The hero ideal is as important to my daughter as it is to my son. But I don’t want to represent all women in comics…particularly because I blow things sometimes!” DeConnick said.
“If Cap or Thor or Hulk are there, you can have Quasar or Machine Man or Triathlon standing next to them in context. They may not be in the movies now, but wait until Avengers 9!” – Tom Brevoort said of upcoming guest stars.
For the entire livelog here’s the Marvel.com link.
Op/Ed:
Could this be a sign that Spider-Woman may join the lineup in the Avengers 2 sequel or series being developed by Joss Whedon?
