Ms. Marvel #20 Review

MS. MARVEL #20
Written by Brian Reed
Art by Greg Tocchini

Another solid effort on Ms Marvel's part this month. Some very curious developments along the way as well. Sadly, there was very little Aaron Stack, also known as Machine Man, in this issue. His previous appearances in the last couple issues were some of the best parts of this series to date.

As for the actual story, last issue ended with Ms Marvel captured and the Puppet Master attempting to turn her into a slave with his puppet powers. This issue sees the continuation of this and, just as it appears he has full control over Ms Marvel, she turns blue and goes all psycho again, as she did in earlier issues in the series, and promptly frees herself from his control.

Later, when she finds out Arana was turned into a puppet and kidnapped by Puppet Master, Carol sets out to kill him for hurting Arana. Instead of stopping him from committing suicide with an explosive, Carol simply lets him do it. She survives the blast due to her strange 'turning blue' bit again.

I was surprised at this turn of events. Not the turning blue part, but basically killing Puppet Master. It makes sense from a character stand point though, as Carol was basically raped and mind controlled by her son Marcus in a very convoluted story from earlier in her career. Yes, her son. Look it up on Wikipedia if you don't believe me. So her not taking kindly to Puppet Master doing something similar to Arana, who is like a daughter to Carol, would probably elicit a response like this from Ms Marvel. Hopefully they don't blame this on whatever is wrong with Carol that keeps turning her blue. Speaking of which, that plot line seems to end the issue with a blue alien crashing into Carol's ship and confronting her. Next issue should put an end to this whole 'blue' plot line.

Again, this issue was very good. The killing of Puppet Master should end up with some interesting repercussions later in the series and it appears Aaron Stack and Sleepwalker will be sticking around in the book for the foreseeable future, as they are both still on her ship at the end of this issue, which is a big plus in my eyes.

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