Although DeConnick has done an amazing job of it so far, time-travel stories make my head hurt even under the best of circumstances. This issue made me begin to feel that familiar dull throbbing behind my temples.
I'm not sure if DeConnick had mentioned it previously, but I first noticed here that the island where Cap and the women were fighting is off the coast of Peru, where Helen Cobb found what I'm pretty sure was Kree technology a few decades ago. It now makes more sense, since she pretty clearly found it sometime after the Second World War, so the technology she found was likely part of the "prowlers" that Carol and the women destroyed in this issue. We still don't know how the prowlers got there in the first place, but DeConnick seems to building to that reveal. In the meantime, it seems that the disturbance that brought Carol to that island doesn't just affect time but also place, given that it also dragged the Banshee Squad girls to it, despite the fact that they had been flying to Hawaii. It seems that they might be stuck in some sort of time loop, since Carol approaches a plane with her in it, clearly before she "crashed" on the island. I'm not entirely sure how Carol flying at the plane then sent her into the "future," putting her in Cobb's bedroom in 1961. My guess is that it's all connected to the pieces of Kree technology that Cobb has on her person (and, presumably, she had on the plane that Carol later flew). I do trust DeConnick to provide answers to these questions at some point, but I have to say that I'm hoping it's sooner, rather than later, since my head is starting to really throb.
The good news is that DeConnick continues to spend time on the characters, giving us some pretty great banter between Cap and Jerri. All in all, it's still a great issue, even with the headache-inducing time-travel story.
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