The Mighty Captain Marvel: Band of Sisters Review

Finished reading The Mighty Captain Marvel: Band of Sisters, within the events of Secret Empire affecting the Marvel Universe writer Margaret Stohl tells the story of what was happening on the Alpha Flight Space Station during the event. The book opens with Captain Marvel showing three new Alpha Flight cadets around the space station while also getting a group of comic heroes together including the Ultimates and the Guardians of the Galaxy as they prepare for the oncoming Chitauri fleet. Once the heroes are able to stop the first wave of Chitauri and Captian America activates Earth's planetary shield trapping the heroes with no help and little resources outside of the planet while oncoming Chitauri waves are making their way to Earth. The last story of the book deals with the aftermath of Secret Empire as Carol along with Jessica Drew Spider-Woman and Jessica Jones as the three spend some time together while Carol try’s to figure out her next step in life after the Alpha Flight Space Station was destroyed. Overall this was a great book as it expands upon the events of Secret Empire by showing how the heroes trapped outside of Earth’s planetary shield leading to some great character moments with how Carol and the rest of Alpha Flight are dealing emotionally with being unable to contact Earth along with the constant waves of Chitauri that outnumbers the heroes. The character interactions throughout are great from the way that it helps to develop new and exciting characters, with some of the dialogue being ripped straight out of the main Secret Empire book while that does help to place the book time wise to the event it does feel a bit off when reading both books concurrently. However the book’s art by Michele Bandini during the Secret Empire story is amazing as it’s able to make the Chitauri threat feel foreboding thanks to the size and scale of the fights with the alien fleet along with making character moments feel extremely impactful even the moment that are taken from the main Secret Empire book are surprising more impactful in this book thanks to the amazing art. While the rest of the book’s art does an amazing in capturing the more character focus moments of the last story in the book. 8/10.