#Genis-Vell ~ Legacy

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Jack came all this way to throw down with Thanos and save Ganymede only to learn that she is 100% working with him now if it means she can possibly fight and kill Tyrant... Jack isn't so sure about all of this, but he pretty much doesn't have any other options after Tyrant himself shows.

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Silver Surfer Rebirth: Legacy #4 - "Time & Time Again" (2023)

written by Ron Marz art by Ron Lim, Don Ho, & Romulo Fajardo, Jr.

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2001's Captain Marvel Vol.4 #22 cover by ChrisCross & Anibal Rodriguez.

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“The Newest Star”

Ron Lim

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A preview of Silver Surfer Rebirth: Legacy #2

SILVER SURFER REBIRTH: LEGACY #2

THE SILVER SURFER VS. ADAM WARLOCK! Surfer has been framed for the apparent death of Genis-Vell! Can the Surfer survive long enough to clear his name to the Infinity Watch? And what actually happened to Genis?!

Written by: Ron Marz Art by: Ron Lim, Don Ho Cover by: Ron Lim, Don Ho, Romulo Fajardo Jr. Page Count: 28 Pages Release Date: October 11, 2023

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Out this week: Silver Surfer Rebirth: Legacy #1 (Marvel, $3.99): Ron Marz and Ron Lim return to Silver Surfer with a story set during their run on the title from the early 1990s.In this miniseries, the former herald of Galactus teams up with Legacy, aka Genis-Vell, the son of the original Captain Marvel.

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Billy Batson and Carol Danvers both go by Captain Marvel at one point or another. Does Batson end up deferring to Danvers and going by Shazam instead, or does Danvers take up one of her dozens of old monikers? If Batson goes by Shazam, how does he introduce himself without getting zapped back into Billy form?

Billy's never gone by Shazam in the BronzeRealms. For real, how does that even work? DC does stupid shit sometimes and we all know it.

Okay, with that out of the way let's do a timeline of the name "Captain Marvel" across heroes.

In 1940, the Justice Society of America are fighting off an attempted Kree invasion when they meet and are assisted by a mysterious man who calls himself Captain Marvel, who disappears soon afterwards.

Seeing him in action also seeds thoughts of rebellious inspiration in the mind of a young Kree soldier, who takes on the callsign Mar-Vell when he's promoted to Captain after the failure of his superiors.

In 1967, Mar-Vell goes rogue from the Kree and decides to hide out on earth, seeking out the surviving Justice Society. With their help, she transitions and starts a new identity under the name Wendy Lawson, and debuts shortly later as the superhero Captain Marvel.

In 1977, Lawson retires as Captain Marvel when she accidentally attracts Kree attention to earth again. Carol Danvers takes up the mantle shortly later, after gaining powers herself. At first she isn't comfortably with the legacy and goes by Ms Marvel, but Wendy persists that Carol should be Captain Marvel, so that doesn't last long.

In 1982, Wendy Lawson dies of cancer. The funeral is attended by a majority of the active or retired superheroes at that time.

In 1989, Carol Danvers is forced to flee earth by the rising Augment regimes (Khan Noonien Singh being the most noteworthy) when one of them causes the ecological collapse of multiple Kree star systems and frames her for having caused it, which even she herself believes, as a distraction that will successfully keep her occupied in space for decades to come.

In 2003, Billy Batson is inspired by the comicbooks loosely based on the adventures of Lawson (the same comics also inspire Jean Grey and Kamala Khan) to take on the name Captain Marvel when he gets unrelated superpowers from the wizard Shazam. In following years his adoptive siblings will join him and become known as the Captain Marvel family of heroes in Fawcett City.

In 2006, Billy Batson travels back in time to World War 2 and teams up with the Justice Society of America. He doesn't recognize the pre-transition Mar-Vell as one of the soldiers he fights against. However, working alongside actual soldiers in the Justice Society and seeing what wartime superheroing was like makes him rethink the military moniker "Captain", and afterward he starts going by CM1 instead (taking after his brother going by CM3). The press, despite his protests, will continue to refer to him as Captain Marvel for years to come.

In 2009, Rick Jones briefly goes by Captain Marvel after bonding with Genis-Vell, an unstable clone of the pre-transition soldier Mar-Vell. He retires the same year and encourages Genis to transition as Lawson had. Genis becomes Phyla-Vell and briefly maintains heroics as Captain Marvel, but leaves earth within a few months to try to build a new life and find an identity distant from the homes and legacy of Lawson.

In 2015, Carol Danvers discovers she was framed for space crimes, and why, and returns to earth, only to find the Eugenics War already ended without her back in 1998, with the surviving Augments having fled into space. She joins the New Avengers (this being the aftermath of the Avengers Civil War still).

Monica Rambeau never went by Captain Marvel... at least not in the still-extant timestream. She and multiple other heroes have memories of her serving as Captain Marvel, during the 5 years and 8 months of the aborted timestream in which "The Snap" occured. These five years were "reset" and erased by the Avengers, including Monica herself, in order to bring back the half the universe that Thanos had killed, and Monica chose to not take up the mantle again.

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Do you think Carol Danvers is an industry plant?

I'll be honest I kind of don't believe in industry plants as a whole, just because I think it's kind of silly, but I'm assuming you don't mean in the literal sense of "musician or artist with corporate backing but isn't upfront about it", but instead on her being pushed less because of demand and more because of corporate mandates.

And yeah, that's definitely true. Carol became Captain Marvel in 2012, and it's not a mistake that that year is also the origin of what many people call the fourth wave of feminism, which also gave rise to an increasingly aggressive "Anti-SJW" culture and incel culture online in reaction to this new feminist movement that focused more on body shaming and body positivity than previous waves. It definitely feels like Marvel was trying to capture some of that energy and momentum with Carol, while also probably feeling a little self conscious for the past decade of her showing her ass with Frank Cho and Greg Horn covers every month.

It does make sense; Carol's character was conceptualised as a means of capturing the feminist movement of the 70s, so she's always been very tied in with feminist movements and the culture surrounding those movements, which has always informed how she has been depicted and designed. In the 70s, a woman owning her sexuality while also being brazen and physical and fighting with her fists was thought of as more empowering, while in 2012 being more covered and in a position of power and leadership was instead the emphasis. Neither of these positions or lines of thought are wrong, they just speak to different era's priorities shaped by the culture around them.

But it is also that Marvel seemed to become increasingly aware that they lacked a strong female character in their main line up of solo title characters the way DC had Wonder Woman. And with the MCU completely erasing Janet, doing that to Wanda, and making Natasha very much so a b role in other characters' stories, I think there was a growing anxiety that they needed to fill this vacuum with someone, and Carol, who had enjoyed a lot of prominence in the 2000s as an Avengers mainstay, who didn't have the baggage that Janet had and hadn't been ruined by comics and films alike like Wanda was at that time in her history, who already had this legacy of feminism as a core part of her conceptualisation, was the natural choice.

But it has also always come across as kind of... odd. It's always going to stick in some people's mouths, because Carol was not the first woman to hold the Captain Marvel title. Probably other than Mar'Vell himself, she is the most conventional, least challenging person to hold that mantle. Monica Rambeau as the second person ever to hold the title, being a black woman and the first black person period to lead the Avengers, has had that history largely underplayed and ignored (and I don't necessarily think she should "take back" Captain Marvel or anything, but she was the first person to make that title a legacy and it's weird how that has been downplayed to suit Carol's narrative by Marvel). Genis-Vell was interesting as a clearly unstable, mentally ill man holding this power and this legacy, later becoming a villain because of his struggles with his mental health and powers and how they interacted. Phyla-Vell and Noh-Varr are both queer, lesbian and bisexual respectively. Like Carol is probably the least diverse person to hold the Captain Marvel mantle after Mar-Vell, so it was always a little odd how much Carol's marketing and depiction acted as if she was this great figurehead for women with superpowers, who is a massive inspiration by virtue of being Captain Marvel, a woman who leads the Avengers, when Monica did that in the 80s!

But anyway. I don't really think Carol is an "industry plant" in, well, any context, because by virtue of being published by Marvel Comics, every character is an industry plant. They are an inherently money-minded, capitalist entity. Every character is going to be thought of in part by how they sell. If publishing this character or this story will bring in money, or not. That's just big publishers as a whole. Carol's history and trajectory into Captain Marvel, while interesting and representative of a larger cultural movement, is definitely not the first instance of this, and really isn't anything new to big two comics and how they react to things.

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The Mar-Vell legacy 🥹

I’m so happy this run seems to be focusing more on the Mar-Vell legacy. Genis, Phyla, and Teddy don’t interact much and I’m not sure if we’ve ever seen all three of them together like this. Of course, Genis is, uh, possessed right now, but I’d like to see all three of them hang out after he gets better.

Phyla and Carol having matching outfits is so cute! I’d love for all the Marvels— Carol, Teddy, Genis, Phyla, Kamala, and Monica to have matching uniforms.

Captain Marvel (2023) #6

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Genis found out he was Mar-vell's son and went "huh wild... well I'm gonna go party with some alien hookers" and like, I respect that.

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Silver Surfer Rebirth: Legacy #4 - "Time & Time Again" (2023)

written by Ron Marz art by Ron Lim, Don Ho, & Romulo Fajardo, Jr.

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2001's Captain Marvel Vol.4 #26 cover by UDON (Alvin Lee, Arnold Tsang & Udon Studios). Source

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Silver Surfer Rebirth: Legacy #5 Preview

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Silver Surfer Rebirth: Legacy #5 Preview: THE SILVER SURFER – MEPHISTO! The Surfer and Genis-Vell have survived Thanos, Galactus and time itself, but now it’s time for a date with the devil! But what does the Lord of Darkness want with an Infinity Gem? And even if our heroes can uncover Mephisto’s game, can they best him? This fan-favorite team brings everything together for this final…

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A preview of Silver Surfer Rebirth: Legacy #3

SILVER SURFER REBIRTH: LEGACY #3

Genis-Vell is unstuck in time! Now the only one who can save the young hero is…THANOS?! Turning to the Mad Titan would be dangerous enough for the Surfer, but he doesn’t realize that Genis is trapped with a living weapon, forged for the sole purpose of killing Thanos! Can this fragile alliance survive the wrath of Norrin Radd, the Fallen One: THE BLACK SURFER?!

Written by: Ron Marz Art by: Ron Lim, Don Ho, Romulo Fajardo Jr. Cover by: Ron Lim, Don Ho Page Count: 28 Pages Release Date: November 15, 2023