Now that she’s already got an awesome book on her hands with Jem and the Holograms, comics writer Kelly Thompson will be making her Marvel debut as co-writer on Captain Marvel & The Carol Corps along with Kelly Sue Deconnick and David Lopez. She had been talking to former Marvel editor, Jeanine Schaefer, for a while about pitching something, and when Schaefer left Marvel, she passed Thompson’s work to Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel editor, Sana Amanat. When the need arose for another writer on The Carol Corps, Amanat, who was already a fan of Jem and the Holograms, was happy to offer the slot to Thompson.
Thompson talked to Newsarama about the revolutionary nature of The Carol Corps in the upcoming story:
Well, there are some more concrete battles for the Corps in the sense that they get to blow some things up and work to keep their “land” safe, but the bigger fight for the Corps is a fight against the unknown and the pursuit of truth, the pursuit of knowledge. Even though Hala Field is one of the more idyllic and peaceful lands in Battleworld, they still lack some real freedom including, most important to our characters I think, the freedom of knowledge. There are a lot of things being kept from these characters and as they realize this, they push against it like classic revolutionaries – the fight for knowledge, the fight for transparency, the fight for freedom. And of course as you do something like that, you draw a very big target on your back, so things get violent very fast.
She also acknowledged that she’s pretty much living the dream in getting to work with Kelly Sue Deconnick:
Working with Kelly Sue is pretty much a dream come true. I know that’s what you’re supposed to say in these situations but in my case it’s just absolutely true. I am a huge fan of Kelly Sue’s writing – both her incredible Marvel work (especially with Carol, obviously) and also her indie work – Bitch Planet in particular is not only great comics, but important comics. The working relationship is pretty close – basically Kelly Sue put together a rough outline of the series as a whole, what it should be about, the characters involved, the emotional beats we wanted to hit, and some key moments in each of the issues. Then I broke the individual issues down further into beats and actions, hammering out the specifics of the story. When that was approved by Sana and Kelly Sue I then took a first pass at the script. From there, Kelly Sue goes into my script and works her Kelly Sue magic, which is pretty exciting to behold!
And if you were wondering why you should pick up The Carol Corps (though COME ON, you were going to pick it up anyway, right? Because it looks awesome!), Thompson has this to say:
For the Kelly Sue DeConnick and David Lopez, obviously! And to get a wonderful story centered on some incredible and very different women that you don’t always get to see in comics. Even though we’ve only got four issues I think we’re telling a strong, emotionally resonant story that speaks powerfully to what Carol and all of these women are really about. And of course there are plenty of explosions and lots of punching.
Explosions and lots of punching?! Sign me up! Captain Marvel & The Carol Corps drops June 10!
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