Carol Danvers and Doctor Strange hook up in Captain Marvel #27

Captain Marvel #27
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March 17's from writer Kelly Thompson and artists David Lopez and Tríona Farrell setꦆs Carol Danvers up for her next big story &ℱndash; and adds a new wrinkle to her love life.

True to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Lopez's promise to Newsarama that the issue🧜's final page would "make your jaw drop," the issue's last image is sure to be burned in the brain🐲s of fans, with a twist that the issue's lead up doesn't give away.

Following an emotionally difficult beak up with James Rhodes/War Machine (Carol's longtime on-again-off-again romantic partner), Carol is stuck ꦍin a depressive funk. When she doesn't return her best pal Jessica Drew's calls, Jess crashes her apartment (literally), dragging her out to fight a g𒉰roup of interdimensional acid-blasting cats.

Disappointed with the turn of events, which culminate in an argument with Jessica Drew, Carol heads off alone to a bar, where she considers drinking whiskey (Carol's a sober alcoholic, like Tony Stark). But before she drinks, she's interrupted by none other than Doctor Strange, w⛦ho has also had a difficult day.

Strange stops Carol from drinking, and the two heroes – who, as Strange points out, have never been very clo💃se – commiserate over the difficulties of balancing real-life concerns with super-heroics, and their connection quick🍸ly moves into flirting, followed by a kiss… followed by what might colloquially be called a 'hook up.'

On⛎ that jaw-dropping final page, Carol and Strange lay in bed together, with Carol wrapped in Strange's Cloak of Levitation. The frank (but generally still very PG-13)𒅌 scene shows Carol and Strange grappling with the emotional and super-heroic ramifications of their tryst, verbally resolving to leave the incident in the past – but embracing and kissing in the final panel.

Oddly enough, Carol and Stra♓ꦇnge's budding relationship paints the solicitation of April 21's in a new light.

"Toil and trouble! Carol Danvers is a born soldier. Give her a field of battle and an enemy to punch, and she's unstoppable. But the Captain's Achilles' heel is about to break," it reads. "The mystic arts are Carol's one true weakness, and - haunted by h𝔉er failure to stop the villain Ove - she's on a mission to correct that weakness... at any cost. A brand-new arc kicks off with artist Jacopo Camagni's supernatural talents!"

Captain Marvel skips release in May, but the mystic arts and Doctor Strange storyline will continue in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:June's Captain Marvel's #29.

"Haunted by a doomed future, Captain Marvel is getting desperate," reads Marvel's description. "And that desperation is showing, both in who Carol enlists to help her and the secret she keep♊s from them as they embark on this adventure together. But Carol's quest for 👍magic continues, as she truly believes it's the last hope to stop a dystopian future, even if every magic user she knows disagrees!"

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