Episode 186 – The Death of Captain Marvel

The Comics Canon

It’s one of the few superhero deaths that has managed to stick over the intervening decades. And it ties up Adam Warlock’s Magus Saga with a tidy bow. On this episode, we revisit Marvel Comics’ first-ever “graphic novel,” Jim Starlin’s The Death of Captain Marvel!

He’s fought countless Earth villains and cosmic bad guys, but the man named Mar-Vell finally confronts a foe he can’t defeat: cancer. As the greatest minds on Earth and Titan work tirelessly to find a cure, one of the universe’s mightiest warriors must come to grips with his own mortality, eventually engaging in a psychic battle with his greatest enemy—Thanos!

Can Captain Marvel avoid the literal kiss of Death and live happily ever after? (Spoiler alert: No.) More importantly, can he ascend to that enlightened state of cosmic awareness known as ... The Comics Canon?

In This Episode:

· Everyone’s favorite space prospector

· Hey, where’s Carol Danvers?

· Marvel’s personification of Death vs. Vertigo’s Death

· Dreadstar: The Price graphic novel

· Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

· Guardians of the Galaxy (2023) #1

· Adam Warlock: Rebirth #1

Join us in two weeks as we pivot away from Jim Starlin and cosmic Marvel for something completely different—Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese!

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