Captain Marvel, Volume 1: Higher, Further, Faster, More (Marvel NOW! 2014)

  Marvel's reboot if it's universe, Marvel NOW!, has been pretty darn near perfect. However, there's been one restructure that's given just about every one of it's readers headaches has been the renumbering of most of the series just 2 years of the original reboot. These new series didn't retool the Marvel Universe but they did issue in a new change for just about every superhero involved. For example, in the Daredevil series, Matt Murdock and his law partner Foggy moved from the Big Apple to the West Coast.

   In this new series, Linda Danvers has just received another taste of operating in outer space due to her participation in the events of Avengers: Infinity and accepts a mission to represent Earth's Mightiest Heroes to assist with the relocation of thousands of races displaced from the planetary destruction of the Builders. While travelling the stars with her pet cat, Chewie, Captain Marvel meets with the Guardians of the Galaxy, runs afoul of smugglers and space pirates, and uncovers a plot to forcibly relocate a planet full of refugees in order to strip mine it of it's rare and valuable Vibranium. 

    This opening servo of the new volume of Captain Marvel was filled with action, adventure, heart, and humor. But unlike the previous volume, this series wasn't able to reign in all these aspects at the same time. The art was quite good and this made for a good read but it just didn't capture the magic of Danvers' adventures on earth in 2012 and 2013. 

   Worth Consuming

   Rating: 8 out of 10 stars.