Ooo, color me intrigued!
DeConnick really does know how to keep you guessing. We learn in this issue that the spaceship that we saw last issue doesn't mean that Carol is in some sort of alternate dimension where spaceships were used in the Second World War, but that the Japanese somehow had access to Kree technology during the Second World War. Of course, DeConnick needs to explain how they got said access, but she's clearly getting there. She also starts to tell the story of how Carol wound up getting transported to the past in the first place, revealing in an "interlude" that Helen Cobb apparently stumbled upon some Kree technology during her ill-fated flight to Peru depicted last issue. It seems likely that Cobb eventually attached this technology to her plane (possibly explaining her speed records) and just as likely that it is somehow connected to the technology that the Japanese were using in the Second World War. DeConnick hasn't connected those dots yet, but, again, she's getting there. She's also still exploring the impact of Carol's appearance in the past. Since Carol is actually in our, and not an alternate, past, her actions are going to have an impact on our future, as we learn through the publication of the "Captain Marvelous" comic strip at the back of this issue. Although it took me a moment to appreciate what DeConnick was doinghere, I thought that device was remarkably clever.
But, DeConnick doesn't just focus on the plot. She starts delving into Carol's back story in this issue and I thought she brilliantly used Carol telling the Banshee Squad soldiers about her past as a way to do so. It's a quiet moment and DeConnick uses it to show how young the women are and how overwhelming the war is. Moreover, as I mentioned in the above paragraph, we seem to be on the verge of discovering that Cobb may have broken all those speed records using Kree technology. That revelation is clearly going to have an impact on Carol, given her hero worship of Cobb. I'm really interested to see where DeConnick goes with it.
Basically, it's another great issue and you should be reading this series.
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