Captain Marvel #13 – Review

By: Kelly Sue DeConnick (story), Scott Hepburn & Gerardo Sandoval (art), Jordie Bellaire & Andy Troy (colors)

The Story: That awkward moment when you realize your foe has been spying on you all along.

The Review: You may recall in my review of Avengers: The Enemy Within #1 the thinly veiled irritation I had over DeConnick pointlessly continuing her Captain Marvel storyline in another title altogether.  For an issue that had Avengers in its name, it really had little to do with the Avengers, and for anyone who wasn’t somewhat intimate with the plot already, much of its significance would have been lost.  So yeah, I wasn’t particularly impressed by the issue.

I was even less so when I came in to buy my comics for the week and discovered, upon opening this latest installment of Captain Marvel, that I was reading the third chapter of the “Enemy Within” storyline, not the second.  When I flipped to Enemy Within #1 again, I was nonplussed to find on its final page an announcement that the storyline would continue in Avengers Assemble #16.*  My running thought was, Really?  Has the situation gotten so out of hand that it’s not an Avengers problem and not just a big Carol problem?